Notes on the Day

This is why I ignore your little red exclamation points: If the e-mail isn't urgent to me, then it's not "urgent." Period.

Actually, I don't ignore everyone's. But I figure if something was really that urgent, they'd pick up the damn phone or walk over. If I consider you to be someone who is prone to alarmist behavior, I'm even less likely to respond to your exclamation points.

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Julio Ojeda-Zapata, in his latest Maynard Institute column, broke down the behind-the-scenes-in-plain-view goings on at the MPR Ethics in Online Journalism forum that Greg and I liveblogged for Ye Olde Metblog.

My final word on the subject: Bob Collins had a perfectly valid point that if people in the audience had contrary comments to make we should have made them. However, the format was really not conducive to that at all and so the commentary spilled over elsewhere. I think we all learned some lessons about what to try and what to expect the next time. If there is a next time.

Additionally, liveblogging is hard. It's really tough to stay engaged enough to synthesize but step outside of the conversation long enough to transcribe.

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Black German Cultural Society - My people!

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Stayed late at work today. I tend not to do that. I used to do it all the time. Don't really need to anymore. But Missy's not home this evening, so my normal routine was out the door. And, I don't know, I was feeling productive. It was kinda nice. I didn't want to actually commit to staying late in the evening by starting on a bigger project, so I got a bunch of little things out of the way.

At the moment I'm not following my One Thing at a Time rule. I'm eating and writing three different blog entries and cleaning off the dining room table and making a mental 'round-the-house to-do list. So not much is getting done. So I should probably finish this.