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Social Media, the Media, and T&T

Camera Self Portrait When I was reading a discussion related to social media/blogs in Trinidad and Tobago, someone made a point that gave me pause. The point was that without newspapers, local blogs would be dead in the water.

Is Blogging Journalism?

Someone on Facebook who asked to remain anonymous asked me the following question:

Blogging seems like fun. I ought to start one day... when I have time. Our government is actually proving to be a strong motivator for me to start. I just have to learn where journalism draws the line (I mean, ranting online that the PM is a @#$%hole is probably not journalism). Or do I have a misconception, that blogging/social commentary is not journalism?

That's a good question. And there's no easy answer.

Introducing KnowTnT.com

Welcome to KnowTnT.com, a bit of an experiment of mine whose successes and failures depend on the community. To celebrate, I'm having another cup of coffee.

Well, What Is It?

That's a good question, and the answer is that it is planned to be an ever evolving unauthorized biography of Trinidad and Tobago. There are many possibilities for it, and there are plenty of things that will be implemented over time that I hope will be of worth.

Over the years, close friends and distant enemies have criticized my criticisms by asking whether I had done anything about it or whether I could do it better. It was a valid criticism, and as you can tell it's been constructive. How constructive has yet to be determined. Will it succeed? Will it fail? There's no telling, but the effort and commitment are and will continue to be apparent.

On Saturday morning, I woke up, registered the domain name, set up the hosting and got started.

The general ideas, which have been brewing over the last 9 years, are rather simple:

  • To allow more people and businesses within Trinidad and Tobago to have a presence and voice.
  • To remove some of the ignorance within Trinidad and Tobago regarding social media and to diminish the ability of others to profit from that ignorance while maintaining or increasing the ignorance.
  • To find a home for my posts on Trinidad and Tobago which always seem a bit out of place to me on the front page of KnowProSE.com given that sites evolving nature over the last 9 years. KnowProSE.com posts on Trinidad and Tobago are here.

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