WSS featured blogger: Riggsveda of It's My Country, too!

Name: Riggsveda

Blog: It's My Country, Too http://www.country2.blogspot.com/

Tag Line: It's been a dark and stormy night

Location: Philadelphia


1. How did you start blogging? Why do you keep at it?

Started in November 2004 right after the election, after I promised myself I would do it if Bush won. I do it because it's a needed safety valve to blow off the steam of frustration.

2. What are your most important issues?

Class and labor issues, privacy issues, human rights

3. What's the nicest recognition you've ever received from the media and/or the blogosphere?

Kevin Hayden of American Street asked me to join the team there. http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/

4. Who is your audience? What is unique about your blog?

God knows. Lefties, mostly, I assume...it's not a huge traffic blog. I'm very new and still getting an audience. What's unique about the blog would be my voice, i suppose; that is, the vernacular way I talk through the keyboard. I like to frame issues by juxtaposing sometimes seemingly unrelated bits of information, and I also like learning things and teaching as I learn. Sometimes my pieces will be full of links, while other times I'll just do a rant or deep thinkpiece.

5. Most frustrating aspect of blogging?

Being brilliant to an empty room. Then getting used to it, letting my guard down, and suddenly being stupid to a full house.

6. What's the one point you'd like a reader to take away from your blog- the one thing for them to really "get".

That's it's important to know how lucky we on the net are...how well-fed, well-clothed, comfortable, and wealthy. And that it's that level of comfort that allows us to hold forth like the students of Aristotle about things not 3/4 of the human beings on earth could afford to care about while trying to find food or shelter or a safe place to hide. And that we owe those others, we owe it to them and to the ones in our own countries, too, to speak out for them and make sure their interests are taken into consideration by the fat power brokers of this government and those in the rest of the world.

Quote:

"They put jesus on a cross, they put a hole in j.f.k.
they put hitler in the driver's seat and looked the other way
now they've got poison in the water and the whole world in a trance
but just because we're hypnotized, that don't mean we can't dance "

"Funky Western Civilization"---Tonio K.