9:33 AM -:- Posted by Allen   0 comment(s)   View or Comment! -:-  

Hey Doug!

You sold me on blogging.

You showed me the magic. I appreciate it more than you know.

But this audioblogging thing is not yet ready for prime time if you can't put titles on your posts.

And even if you could, unless it's something special like a live interview recorded directly to your blog, what's the point?

Technology is good because it enables. Technology is bad, too, when it enables us to too easily do something incorrectly.

Your blog is among my first stops every morning. By the time I get up from my late-night West-coast nap, you've already gone to your East-coast job. Everything you did the night before and that morning before work is right there waiting for me.

But I can scan your entire written output, for any average day, in less time than it takes to access a single audioblog installment.

And I can read way many times faster than you (or I) can talk.

So, given that I keep myself overwhelmed with projects, time is precious to me. I only allocate it to things that seem worth the while. And I'm not interested in solving the mysteries of what gem might be in each audioblog, or not.

So instead of the life-enhancing experience you initially promised while extolling the virtues of blogging to me, I go to your blog, I scroll down past the audioblog graphics, I scan whatever text you do put up, and I read the ones with substance, and lately, I go away unfulfilled.

You have something to say. But the best way to say it is still with your fingers, because it isn't only what you say, it's wherether or not you are heard. I know that it is easier for you to pop off a phone call from just about anywhere. But when you save your own time and effort while increasing the time and effort required of your readers (earers?) you reduce the value proportionately.

Forget the frills that get in the way: just communicate.

        2:21 PM -:- Posted by Allen   0 comment(s)   View or Comment! -:-  

Titles

Like the one at the beginning of this post, titles are good.

Titles tell you what you're getting into; how to get back into it; how to get others into it.

A book without a title would not sell. Kinda like a musician without a name: nobody can refer to it in an intelligent manner.

So it is with audioblogs in their current state: No title.

Mystery.

No reference point.

No interest.

No blind clicks from me.

        12:21 AM -:- Posted by Allen   0 comment(s)   View or Comment! -:-  

Been There...

...Done That.

Already spent it all. Sorry!

        12:08 AM -:- Posted by Allen   0 comment(s)   View or Comment! -:-  

She's Confused, Jim...

Well, what do you know? WTP Congress National Director Devvy Kidd still thinks I resigned.

Oh, wait, that was the story last time. This time she sent an email to all the volunteers on my WTP website page (Santa Clara County, CA), saying that I had been removed back in December 2003, and that WTP was looking for a new coordinator for the county.

Let me set you straight, Devvy:

1. NO, I did not resign.

2. NO, you cannot remove a coordinator at whim, you may only remove one for cause, and the law says you have to state the cause if you do that. If you don't like that law, you shouldn't be working for a corporation.

3. NO, you're not looking for a new coordinator; you're looking for a Yes-man.

Give it up, Devvy!

Stop trying to engineer a pretty face onto things and get HQ to deliver the rest of what was promised when Operation Stop Withholding was announced, so we coordinators can get on with our jobs in an ethical manner.

It's a simple equation: perform and I'll admire you; pretend and I'll criticize you.

Wondering why I'm posting this here? It's because Devvy is ignoring my emails, trying to wish me out of existence. This is an attempt at public provocation.

A petition, if you will.

Ah, the lonely life of the Loyal Opposition....