The BBC has a story about someone who is “paying someone to be him” — to blog, network, post, etc. I confess, that is also the secret to how I have maintained this blog for so long. I have hired a series of interns who do nothing but write these posts and manage my Facebook account, etc. Also, in much the same way as the legendary Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe used to make members of his band go work on his farm, one of the requirements of the interns who maintain this blog is to go take care of my tomato plants — and I am (I mean, they are) getting tired of having to do that. (Please note this item is tagged “humor.”)
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Time posted: 4:00 pm on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 8 Responses to “To the several people who have emailed me a link to the blogging, outsourcing story”Post a Comment |
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July 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
But, Rex, what we all really want to know is - did you pay someone to wait for you in line for an iPhone?
Love the blog, keep it up - apologies that this is my first comment (I think..).
Matt
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I couldn’t afford the fees the line-sitters were seeking.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Rex - you thought it was chipmunks eatin’ your ‘maters. It were the internes.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
“I have hired a series of interns who do nothing but write these posts and manage my Facebook account, etc.”
I’m sure you’re being ironic here but folk might not realize that this is, indeed, a growth industry; folk are gaming “social capital” just like they gamed WarCraft and such.
*shrug*
I consider even the legit form little more than a purile game … high school personality politics writ large and validated.
p.s. greets!
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 pm
What I want to know then is who takes care of the Nikon?
Marianne
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 am
Because I’m the production director, I’ve had to wash and groom your dogs for eight years. But they are small dogs and fit into my washer and dryer quite comfortably with my husband’s socks.
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:56 am
Barbara, my dogs are small, but not that small. But I always wondered how you got them so fluffy.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
As a former intern at Hammock Pubs., I can safely say that I only had to sit at the Green Hills Apple store line one time before 6 a.m.. At least Rex reimbursed me for the Starbucks… (I kid, I kid… the Apple store wasn’t even there when I was an intern.)