Write About What? Thoughts on Citizen Journalism

Write about anything that comes to your mind.

I pick up themes from day-to-day experiences and I dig on them. The mind is funny; the more you worry, the less it seems to work. So don’t worry just start. Like the other day I went to a speech given by Dr. Flávio Gikovate. He spoke on being happy and leading a good life.

It was great.

Dr Gikovate is a great Brazilian writer and philosopher. I decided I’d interview him for OhmyNews.

A couple of days later I was astonished reading about the overload of taxes in Brazil, then I proceeded to look up what was been done about this slaughter of Brazilian people’s pockets and I found out a Brazilian Senator who was agaist it and interviewed him to make him stand for his announcement. Ricardo and Rita, my friends, got married and I wrote about their marriage.

Now what do the world wants to know about taxes in Brazil?

Well many, many people have investments in Brazil - many Korean companies are in Brazil and many Asians have interests in the country. How about how about the Brazilian philosopher and the friends wedding?

Well, human interest: what is a wedding like in Brazil, many visited that story at OhmyNews to know. What is it that South Americans think about been happy and leading a good life? The doctors interview could have answered that, right?

Now the two interviews mentioned above were not published immediately. Maybe they eventually would, maybe not, I did not know at the time, but I did what I wanted to do.