I've been trying to stay away from email. Not my personal email, I'm as obsessed with that as ever. But I'm trying to check the email listed on this blog a little less frequently. No more than once daily. Or even to skip a day now and again. I mean, what's the point, why am I so obsessed with email?
Here's why.
Yesterday I got an email from a reporter at the Toronto Star, who wanted to interview me for an article about Conservapedia in the Sunday paper. He emailed on Thursday afternoon, but I didn't see it until Friday morning, and by that time his deadline had passed. That could have been some very nice publicity for wmtc!
That's what I get for trying to be less obsessed.
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You must be wondering what life was like before the Internet.
I wonder that myself even though I am old enough to have used a typewriter for school papers.
I am still really amazed (and thrilled) by the internet, and all the ways it has changed our lives.
I also go back to typewriter days. :)
I struggled through extra hours at lunches so I could pass typing in high school. I finished the year with a 49%, but the teacher passed me anyway -- E for Effort and all that.
Now I type faster than anyone I work with, so I guess it was worth it.
Typewriters. Yeah, I remember those. Big heavy apparatus that I lugged from the closet whenever a paper was due. But I am old enough to have used it in college. (I finally got to use a word processor--on a mainframe--in grad school.) Those were the days...
I had a similar experience to L-girl's. I had a BBC staffer try to contact me after reading one of my posts on Schwarzenegger's special election. They wanted me on their World Have Your Say, an international phone-in show. Now that would have been fun, as well as great publicity. But it was one of the few days I did not check e-mail in the morning, and I did not see the message till after deadline.
They wanted me on their World Have Your Say, an international phone-in show. Now that would have been fun, as well as great publicity.
MSS, you might be very glad you missed that opportunity.
I was on World Have Your Say last year, and it was terrible. The producer ambushed me into a "debate" with a wingnut - and most of the time had my mike switched off. Not good. What's more, she never mentioned my URL.
I blogged about it when it happened, I'll try to find the post.
Here it is: first here, then here.
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