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Why we still need newspapers
Category: Blogathon... MSM/Journalism/etc...
Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 at 02:25 PM [GMT-6]

This morning's edition of the Midland Reporter-Telegram has a(nother) front page story* about Blogathon (you have heard of Blogathon, right? ;-), and you can read that story online. But in doing so, you'll miss the amusing irony that presented itself to perceptive consumers of the treeware version, which was a photograph adjacent to the Blogathon story describing a scene from something called "the Virtual Dementia Tour."

Besides thinking that would be a great name for a band, I'm hard-pressed to come up with a more apt description than what Jimmy and I are about to embark upon.

*This is also a reminder of the importance of having friends in the MSM, especially if they're also bloggers.

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you mean that picture wasn't Eric and Jimmy getting their electronics ready for Saturday? maybe in disguise...

Posted by: lyle at July 28, 2006 03:47 PM

Wish I was gonna be in Midland to see the live blogging performance tomorrow afternoon! Sounds positively scintillating! Will you at least post pictures of the people watching you write? Or of you watching the people who are watching you write?

Posted by: Gwynne at July 28, 2006 05:12 PM

Maybe I'll just take photos of the produce watching us blog.

Posted by: Eric at July 28, 2006 05:17 PM

Well, at least set up near one of those free "samples" vendors so you'll have snacks. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at July 28, 2006 06:38 PM

I tried to get the local paper to even briefly mention it, but no. Nothing. I gave them all the info they'd need on the event and the charity, neatly typed up...no go.

I again find myself purely jealous of your blog.

And now I need to get some sleep before the big Blogathon starts.

Posted by: Julie at July 29, 2006 01:07 AM

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