Wednesday, February 25, 2009

IF BLOGS COULD TALK...

This one would say, WTF? This post is getting old! Are you around or what?

And I would answer, yeah yeah stop making me feel badly about creating and abandoning you. But a blog is not always an easy thing to fit into the day when most of your energy is going into recreating your life.

And the Blog would answer, Well so maybe I can help you, ya know, do things you can't do, can't achieve. Like connect you with people over at my place who aren't in your orbit.

And I would say, that's great Blog so could you conjur me up a few rabble-rousing folks to bring their appetite for adventure on my botanical tour of Turkey April 26th, just two months away? There's a bunch of us jonesing to go.

And then I'd say, while you're at it Blog can you hook me up with the communications director of the White House or the DNC because I have a brilliant idea for a social media site and traveling road show called American Moxie and if they've got the money I've got the time?

Come to think of it, Blog, can you get me trained on some new software so I can do what I used to do best, take field-recorded sound and interviews and weave them together into delicious audio stories? Because I've got a fabulous nighttime snake tour I recorded last month in Costa Rica and I'd love to get it produced, as well as a gallery of vivid moments among the Osa Peninsula's fauna and flora.

And just now it occurs to me to ask you, Blog -- I can't thank you enough for asking! -- can you post the festivities from last week's Seattle Flower and Garden Show? They're burning a hole in my computer. And if you can find it, Blog, I'd be thrilled if you'd pull images from my camera of the mossy rocks and torential waterfalls I just snapped during that gorgeous hike up and behind Multnomah Falls.

And as I would turn to look at the Blog, so recently bereft of content and whining for attention, there it would be right in the middle of a There But For The Grace Of God moment, understanding there is a lot to be said for a Blog with nothing to say.
at 6:39 PM

7 comments:

  1. Hi Ketzel,

    It looks like you've hit that great big conundrum of the newly unemployed...All of the resources and people you were used to having back you up are no longer there. It's you, by yourself, and everything just takes longer than it seems it should.

    Keep plugging away...It'll all come together.

    Oh, and take a look at Picasa from Google. It makes posting slideshows and photos easier (with editing tools thrown in).
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  2. Everything may take longer than it should, but those of us who read the old NPR blog are all probably reading this one. We'll be here when you've got the time and energy, though we may not have the time or the money to join you on that amazing trip to Turkey.

    Apropos of your situation, Doonesbury is re-running the strips from when Rick the Journalist became Rick the Blogger. Are you a friend of G. Trudeau, by chance?
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  3. I'd give almost anything if I could go with you to Turkey.
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  4. Lauren - I never was a comic reader (even
    Doonesbury) so I don't know how Rick lost his job at the Washington Post. You've got me curious about how long he laster as a blogger...

    Wish you could go w/us, too Zephr. I'd offer to blog be we all know how well THAT's worked out before, huh...
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  5. Hi, Ketzel-
    I don't know too much about video and audio in the traditional sense, but certainly know previously (very) non-technical folks that have mastered digital video and Final Cut (with a Mac) as a way to manage their limited-budget productions for our state's public TV network.

    And podcasting is pretty darn simple, too, especially for an experienced radio person like you. All you need is a decent headphone with a speaker microphone, with some basic software (GarageBand for Mac's) and you're out there.

    So, I'd say, go for it! You obviously can produce great pieces with the best of them!

    P.S. I'd love to go with you to Turkey, too. Bah, humbug.

    Cheers,
    Lisa
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  6. Thanks for the kick in the butt, Lisa. So call me shallow and mercenary but without the prospect of making money doing all the delicious production pieces you propose, and without access to a large audience, I'm simply not motivated to do the work. HOWEVER -- I am an old dog all too happy to learn new tricks, so if I can find an outlet for my stories (forgive me but this blog isn't enough), I solemnly swear I will Kick Some Ass.
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  7. I'll be happy if you take lots of pictures and post them, so I can pretend I went.

    I have a friend going to South Africa and Botswana this week. She's promised to take lots of late-summer pictures for me.
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