Write your Academy Awards acceptance speech.
Wow…I never thought I’d be up here giving this speech. First, I’d like to thank the academy. Mom, Dad, Elyse, Em… The producers, cast & crew. Kruse, Gregg, T. Pete, even though he pulled so many pranks on me. JB, Chico, Jamie. Um… DGP, Dr. [...]
Wow…I never thought I’d be up here giving this speech. First, I’d like to thank the academy. Mom, Dad, Elyse, Em… The producers, cast & crew. Kruse, Gregg, T. Pete, even though he pulled so many pranks on me. JB, Chico, Jamie. Um… DGP, Dr. Havice and anyone else who helped me along the way. Wow. I can’t believe I’m actually standing here holding this…the Oscar for Best Achievement in Editing. Man, this has been a lifelong dream… Anyway, I know what it’s like to be on the other end of this broadcast and working at an affiliate, so I’ll wrap this up.. Thank you all!
Mark my words… I *will* be giving a speech similar to this some day… Oh and yes, I did drop friends into the speech, even if only by “code.”
Why do people write blogs and then don’t allow commenting? There are a couple of blogs I have in my RSS reader that are like this. It’s annoying, especially if I have an opinion on a subject. Blogs are not meant to be a one-way media. TV, newspapers, radio… Those [...]
Why do people write blogs and then don’t allow commenting? There are a couple of blogs I have in my RSS reader that are like this. It’s annoying, especially if I have an opinion on a subject. Blogs are not meant to be a one-way media. TV, newspapers, radio… Those are all inherently designed to be one-way, the internet, however, is not. It’s bi-directional. Look at all the success that social media has because of this! Of course, some people at least give you the ability to do a track-back. I mean, that’s at least a start, but in reality, it just means I have to write a blog post just to respond to that blog post, and honestly, if I have a short reply, it seems to me that it’s a waste of my bytes to respond on my blog.
A good example, today, is on Seth Godin’s blog. He posted about ignoring the “no user serviceable parts” sticker on things. I’d love to comment over there that ignoring that sticker is pretty much how I learned the ins and outs of my computer, but since there’s no “post comment” button, I have to write this reply to say that.
Honestly, I’m not picking on Seth here… He just happened to have the first example I stumbled upon.
p.s. Feel free to comment… I leave them on, though, I think WP auto turns off commenting after a certain period of time to deter spam. I could change that, however, I was getting LOTS of spam on old posts. It’s a manual switch because I don’t have the plugin.
