Unemployed Blogger Seeks Shoulder To Post On
I won't copy and paste the entire post here, but I wanted to share my latest "farewell" address at my other blog, Geek Stew. I was hired last year by their technology office to blog about, well, geeky stuff from a student perspective. Here is a taste of what you'll find if you go read the whole thing:
In October, ASU President Dr. Michael Crow published a video informing students and faculty regarding of the economic situation of the school. I uploaded the video to my Geek Stew YouTube account, but never got around to talking about it here on the blog. If you’ve got seven minutes and ten seconds, along with an interest in what Dr. Crow had to say, the video is embedded at the end of this post. (Or you can go watch it now.) Some recent communication from the folks who hired me last year to start this blog reminded of Dr. Crow’s video.
It is with a frowny-faced emoticon that I share the following news. After 13 months, 98 posts, 20 subscribers, 163 comments, 5,665 unique visitors from 90 different countries/territories, and 10,336 page views, I have officially been “downsized” from the payroll of Arizona State University. In an email that was supposed to be delivered to me on December 3rd, the following sadness was shared:
Keep reading on my (soon stagnant) blog...
Since I'm done with classes for the semester, I guess I'll just go cry into my big pillow. Let me know if you would like me to author a stellar guest post on your blog. I will only charge a nominal fee. Perhaps a t-shirt, or a gifted album of sad songs on iTunes. I don't require much.
