Week #2

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The question ISN'T:

How can I be better informed about emerging technology and existing technology (like blogging) in order to better help the public at large?

The real question is:

How can blogging keep me (and you; if you pay attention and don't straggle) out of the clutches of the countless zombie hordes?

The answer:

It can't.

Fools, if this is your first glimpse of the reality that the impending Zombie Armageddon is only days away; you're done. Oh yeah, hotshot, i got your number. You're all:

"My friend Todd is totally a doctor and he says zombies are impossible for countless reasons, the least of which is the simple factor of the deterioration of the locomotive capabilities of a non-living body."

Todd is an idiot and so are you for listening to him. He's a psychiatrist for crying out loud!! What's he gonna know about zombies? Jack, that's what. But most importantly, Todd doesn't know Ben. Yeah, THAT Ben. We, who are in his inner circle, simply call him: Matlock. At least, we did until last month, when he went missing. We searched high and low, far and wide; Sweet & Low even. No sign of the greatest lawyer/zombie-hunter-killer of all time (even more adept at sniffing out the zombie cadres than Ralph Macchio and Lawrence Welk before him). So here we are, our hero gone, our futures laid waste. As you well know, or should know if you weren't such a zombie noob, Undead sightings have been growing by leaps and bounds since his absence. Not worried? The government is. Check it:

Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack

PITTSBURGH—A zombie-preparedness study, commissioned by Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy and released Monday, indicates that the city could easily succumb to a devastating zombie attack.

Don't worry though, the zombie's have their own washington insiders spreading propaganda. They're just softening us up for the big surge coming in the next week; telling us how great zombie-life will be and all that clap-trap:

Live Every Day As If You're Dying Of A Contagious Disease That Turns People You Bite Into Zombies

Wake up, people! Life is not a spectator sport. It could all end tomorrow, and there are no second chances, unless of course you're bitten by...

Not that it will make much difference, but just to give you a fighting chance, you might as well go ahead and get educated about defending yourself (not that it'll do any good this late in the game).

So yeah, excuse me if I'm a little freaked about the whole thing. Not about blogging, that's easy; about having my brain eaten by the recently reanimated. Sorry if I'm a little terse and my outlook a little bleak; I've got zombies on my mind (no pun intended). So take whatever you want from this blog; but I'm telling you now, Zombie Armageddon is officially coming.

Z minus 7 and counting.

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I am working with a co-worker on the Learn 2.0 project. I helped her with her blog and then made mine. The hardest part was switching between the website and my email... so pretty easy so far. There are a number of customization that Blogger has to help people make their blog have a unique visual appeal (such as font colors, adding pictures, adding links, etc). As far as I can tell though, it does not go to the lengths that MySpace goes to creating completely unique (and often atrocious & confusing looking) personal pages.