Did I mention that I’m traveling again this week?
Woops. Yes, tis true.
I’ll be at the most excellent SXSW conference again this year and in a returning cameo role as a panelist!
Dude. I fricking feel like Charo on the loveboat.
No seriously.
Now, the panel subject is titled
“Better Blogging Brainstorms”
I realize that the name of this panel sounds a little bit like a dissertation on the qualities and varieties of belly button lint and how it may vary seasonally based on one’s raw food consumption & fuzzy sweater proclivity.
I’m confident it’ll be quite more entertaining and insightful than that though it has triggered for myself a number of questions on what is to be considered good content, better content, and among the best in content.
For myself, having blogged for 6 years and drafting a post that apparently has been received as being canonical I’m never sure of what may be considered good content or skill sets for better content. I know what content and blogging works well for me. I know what I like to read and view and absorb and respond to.
But you, dear friends, are not me.
And while you may like The Office, I will suffice my joys in humor with the delightful car crash referred to as Flavor Of Love.
A lot of it is a matter of taste.
But on the flipside, as a producer of content, I am more inclined to lean to a philosophy of writing a la Stephen King. I mean, the man’s produced a few damn brilliant and lovely pieces of work. But he’s also generated a whole new jersey cess pool of puscoated stinkers as well. But being prolific has its advantages. You do, afterall, have a better liklihood of creating something interesting, writing something entertaining, or resonating with someone on a whole new level.
That is, afterall, one of the brilliant reasons why I so “less than 3″ the internet. (That would be <3 aka a heart tilted sideways for you non-l33t jigga wah? fools)
And your thoughts on this subject?
I’m sure we’re going to have some interesting and stimulating banter of the subject as I’m pleased to be sitting on a panel with some pretty nifty folks.
Cameron Barrett I’ve met this man at SXSWs previously and I have a picture of him looking as if he’s got some weird brain sucking thing happening with Jay Allen.
Helen Jane I’ve crossed pixels with this woman in the past for some silly blog reallity game shenanigans that this dorkbot was responsible for.
Tony Pierce who is one ridiculously scintillating and talented writer. Charming as all heck in person to boot.
The panel will be moderated by Ms Lisa Sabater who is the evil mastermind at Culture Kitchen.
Now before you go claiming that this little post and linklove is a digital clusterf*ck, pre SXSW,I beg you to set yourself down for a moment and think here.
Were there any drugs involved? No. Were there any biological fluids exchanged? No. Did anyone get chlamidya that wasn’t already there from burning man or a Consumating date gone regretfully wrong? No. Did anyone have to bury a dead hooker in their backyard and pretend that they were holding a memorial for their exboyfriend’s rottweiler. I think not. And if the police ask me, that’s my story and I’m keeping to it.
Barring all that and if I have anything entertaining to say during my panel, you betcha that you will have considered it *waving one finger in the air with all sass and attitude* broughten by end of session. (Grammar geeks, is that future perfect sentence or what?)
And oh yeah. Worse comes to worse, I’m bringing my cowbell.
