Kikay and Ballex are both running writing contests right now.
Primary purpose of which is to increase content and content sources, and consequently lessen our loads so we can concentrate on newer, exciting stuff.
But hey if it helps weed out a few budding writers out there, why not, right? This is my hope I think, secretly. The country’s lack of focus on education over the past decades is starting to show. Where once we produced some of the highest touted, well educated people in Asia, the kids I encounter these days are near illiterate, and can’t tell a book from a paperweight.
It’s up to us, really. I’m older now, and I know better. I run websites that get read by a lot of young people who are exactly in the demographic whose communication skills have suffered.
I’m gonna start a program that’ll try to increase people’s reading and writing skills. I’ll tie up with someone (I have three candidates) who can help me do this. I’ve laid out the groundwork and I think it can be done.
And finally, I will never pander to idiocy, just to increase hits and pageviews. It’s so easy to dumb down your content so that the current generation which does not read and prefers YouTube rather than a good book would ‘enjoy’ it more, but hell if I’d feel any satisfaction from that. It’s akin to insisting on making intelligent jokes than going slapstick, even if your audience doesn’t ‘get it’. I think you just keep on trying, keep on trying, and if they don’t get it, so what. At least you tell the few people out there who do get it, that they are not alone.
I will try to increase their numbers. I think it’s how best I can help.