Movember. What a crass word, but it's commendable that some might want to do something for charity. Most people I know just like the attention - a bit like Children in Need japes like shaving your head etc. 'Look at me, I'm great', when actually I'm thinking 'what a "£$%er'. I don't like to swear here, although I would if I was speaking. It's just that writing something is sort of 'final', you can't backtrack on the written word (just ask those Twitter users who embarass themsleves). Whilst speaking something, you can quickly inform listeners you didn't actually mean it, although you probably did but your following few words can minimise the impact. Safe to say I won't be growing a moustache, in November or any other month.
I've been contemplating creating a 'technical blog' to run alongside this one, but will I get enough time to do it? Can I be bothered? Am I capable of such a thing? Why do it? The last question is easy - I saw an advert for technical bloggers - so the idea is that I would get paid. How good would that be?!
I've noticed over the last few years the rise of the blogger replacing journalists. It could be more prevelant in technical journals, but I'm not sure. The think that annoys me though is the increasing use of Twitter as input to news items both on the TV and in the press. Why we want to know what a celebrity has stated about a particular newsworthy incident is beyond me. And taking my earlier point about the written word, how much credence can we put on a short Twitter statement that probably took all of 20 seconds to write on the spur of the moment. That's not to say some journalists take a similar time to write articles, but they are professionals. Celebrities are not to be taken seriously at the best of times, least of all when it comes to comments on e.g. a missing child, serious crime or similar.
I just think that it's an easy space filler for editors now they've sacked all the proper journalists. Mind you, newspapers are on their way out anyway, which is why I think we'll be left with a massive BBC news outlet (and asociated 'magazines'), a very small number of large commercial offerings such as Sky News and a few niche outlets catering for the nutters amongst us. Where Daily Mail readers will migrate to I have no idea, but hopefully they will stop thinking middle England is stuck in the early 20th century.
Right, beter get back to work and think about that technical blog option.
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