The purpose of this blog is a professional one. I’ve been procrastinating on beginning a personal, diary-like blog filled with my dark musings and secret predilections for a long time . . . For some reason I just can’t do it. I’m not sure why this is. Perhaps I don’t have enough secret musings or dark predilections (or vice versa), or perhaps I have so many that it’s just impossible to jot them down. Perhaps have trouble adopting a secret persona because I am, typically, honest to a fault. Either way I found the prospect of beginning a professional blog rather attractive. So here we are. I guess I’d better start of with some ground rules then.
1. This blog is going to specifically be about my experiences in the professional world as a copywriter for a marketing company.
2. I will constantly be referring to the differences in the education I’ve received in university and how I use these skills on a day to day basis.
3. I find the prospect of one day writing my autobiography, or the biography of several other individuals I’ve know throughout my life, as rather intriguing. Thus, I will occasionally lapse into memoir-like posts which I will clearly label so as not to trick readers into reading about my life—hey, if you want to read about my life, do it, but I’m not going to suppose that you want to. I doubt I want to read about yours.
4. Okay, okay, I probably want to read about your life too. Feel free to share your blog’s link with me and I’ll do my best to check it out. If I like I what I read, we can dialogue. Isn’t that what joining the blog-o-sphere is all about.
5. I’m not sure if blog-o-sphere is a word but I will be using it anyway. I, like Erin McKean, think of myself as an anti-prescriptivist dictionary evangelist
6. I will try to reference as many cool, academic or professional resources and references as I possibly can: links I find in my academic studies or just from boingboing (or my friend Dave . . . he’s good).
7. I can’t think of anymore and, guess what? It’s 5!
More later,
Al
