So, last Wednesday was crazy. Shortly after waking up I found myself dealing with something and someone — Shaun Usher — I didn’t think I’d need to.
LET’S REWIND.
In early February I wrote a humble little blog post to adorn my new personal site. It was about content aggregators and how they’re not creating anything new and/or, in my opinion, anything of value. I expressed my frustration that many writers can’t get jobs writing but that they could probably get jobs working as and for aggregators.
The few regular readers/visitors here will probably by now have realized that I haven’t posted anything in a few days. There was actually method to this madness. As some of you know, I teach a course at George Brown College on Social Media Marketing. By and large, a lot of the students in said class are new to the world of blogging, or, rather, the world of having a strategy behind their blogging. I preach regularity, or, put another way, that they should figure out how often they want to blog and stick to it. Every day, every other day, three times a week — whatever. Doesn’t matter to me. Just pick one and stick to it. I wanted to accurately demonstrate what happens when you start out like a house on fire and then taper off.
Yesterday, I read a tweet that linked me to this item on HuffPo.
If you’re amused or entertained by this post, I don’t blame you. If you think you’ve seen it before, you have.
Nick Cave wrote that letter to MTV in 1996. It’s almost 16, and it’s been on the internet for a while now. I’m not totally sure but I think that if that letter were a person, it could — with parental consent — get married in Canada.