Welcome to the blog
Hello everyone:
I've never written a blog before. I've done plenty of columns for the newspaper over the years, but never a blog. I guess the delivery method is different, but the medium is the same. From Gutenberg's printing press to Al Gore's Internet, may the written word never go out of style.
Perhaps I'm behind the times already with this blog stuff. I do read a few from time to time, but not regularly. They are interesting, but I've got enough going on with running a newspaper and working at Dillons. I guess it is just hard coming up with content for a bi-weekly newspaper, let alone a daily (or more) blog. With the unlimited space the Internet provides, I'm free to ramble more, though, so that's a good thing, right? But I guess attention spans are even less online than they are in print (I just made that up, but it sounds logical). So I'll try to keep this stuff fairly to the point, if there is one. Today, I don't really have one, other than just to try this thing out and introduce you to it. I usually am more cohesive in my writing. I tried a free-writing exercise this summer during a class in Stress Management. This post is bringing back memories of that.
I tried going with a more "sophisticated" blog, but dang, WordPress was about the most complicated thing I've ever seen to install. Writing is writing, I suppose, so for now I'll try the much simpler "Blogger." Perhaps later someone else can figure it out for me and I can move this thing to the more complicated software. But alas, for another day.
Yes, so back to the point at hand. This blog will be published on The Online Edge website. I figure I can update this from time to time between issues of the paper to keep our website more interesting. I may just ramble, like today, or I may have a point. I guess I'll see how I'm feeling at the time. I wonder if anyone will read it? Hopefully, you will. And comment on it, too. That is one of the features I'm really looking forward to with the blog format. The ability to comment on it freely and immediately really sets this off from print (I've probably gotten a total of 5 letters to the editor in over 2 years printing The Edge). Feel free to agree or disagree with me, but please don't leave spam. No one likes that stuff. It sucks, big-time.
In other news, I'm officially a graduate of Fort Hays State. I now have a bachelor's in psychology. Yes, after finishing some classes this summer, I went to the registrars office today and they'll be sending me the degree in the mail soon (but not before they charged me another $30. Honestly, I've already spent 3 years and thousands of dollars going to school there, couldn't they at least give you the degree for free? One more chance to sock it to ya, I guess). I'll probably write more about that in the next paper on the 20th.
Well, to the two or three of you reading this, until next time!
-Zach Becker
I've never written a blog before. I've done plenty of columns for the newspaper over the years, but never a blog. I guess the delivery method is different, but the medium is the same. From Gutenberg's printing press to Al Gore's Internet, may the written word never go out of style.
Perhaps I'm behind the times already with this blog stuff. I do read a few from time to time, but not regularly. They are interesting, but I've got enough going on with running a newspaper and working at Dillons. I guess it is just hard coming up with content for a bi-weekly newspaper, let alone a daily (or more) blog. With the unlimited space the Internet provides, I'm free to ramble more, though, so that's a good thing, right? But I guess attention spans are even less online than they are in print (I just made that up, but it sounds logical). So I'll try to keep this stuff fairly to the point, if there is one. Today, I don't really have one, other than just to try this thing out and introduce you to it. I usually am more cohesive in my writing. I tried a free-writing exercise this summer during a class in Stress Management. This post is bringing back memories of that.
I tried going with a more "sophisticated" blog, but dang, WordPress was about the most complicated thing I've ever seen to install. Writing is writing, I suppose, so for now I'll try the much simpler "Blogger." Perhaps later someone else can figure it out for me and I can move this thing to the more complicated software. But alas, for another day.
Yes, so back to the point at hand. This blog will be published on The Online Edge website. I figure I can update this from time to time between issues of the paper to keep our website more interesting. I may just ramble, like today, or I may have a point. I guess I'll see how I'm feeling at the time. I wonder if anyone will read it? Hopefully, you will. And comment on it, too. That is one of the features I'm really looking forward to with the blog format. The ability to comment on it freely and immediately really sets this off from print (I've probably gotten a total of 5 letters to the editor in over 2 years printing The Edge). Feel free to agree or disagree with me, but please don't leave spam. No one likes that stuff. It sucks, big-time.
In other news, I'm officially a graduate of Fort Hays State. I now have a bachelor's in psychology. Yes, after finishing some classes this summer, I went to the registrars office today and they'll be sending me the degree in the mail soon (but not before they charged me another $30. Honestly, I've already spent 3 years and thousands of dollars going to school there, couldn't they at least give you the degree for free? One more chance to sock it to ya, I guess). I'll probably write more about that in the next paper on the 20th.
Well, to the two or three of you reading this, until next time!
-Zach Becker
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