At the risk of being disingenuous, I'm going to crank out a post or two for my blog.  I know I'll be considered insincere for going past the last minute, but there it is.

As it happens, I've opened up tweetdeck, as much as I don't like to, and found a stream of edchats going by, so I guess that'll be my subject for now.  I went to two edchats, only commented on one.  If you read the first post you know that my comment had to do with spam and, again, I find I can't much focus on the topic of the conversation as on what's between the lines.  I keep thinking about the deceptive scale of the internet.  All the marketing principles about how many times you have to hear something before you believe it, or before you click on 'BUY NOW' hold sway here.  Once upon a time there was a fad of placing a classified ad in a newspaper saying, essentially  "Please send me $5"  Enough people would do it that you could at least cover the cost of the ad.  With the internet, you can write a message like that, set it up to post and repost automatically, even with variations,  and reach hundreds of millions of eyes for just a few hours work.  So I have a deep suspicion of anything flowing through that pipe.

Meanwhile, tweetdeck is popping away and I've become acclimated, and arranged my screen so that it doesn't cover up what I'm doing, so now it's just a minor annoyance - but it still doesn't bring me any value.