 | Bob Gabordi is executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and Tallahassee.com. He can be reached through this blog, at bgabordi@tallahassee.com or (850) 599-2177 |
Yesterday was a big day for this blog, which is coming up on its three-year anniversary next month, making it a relatively old-timer in blog years.
But this blog is never too old to learn a new trick or two.
Yesterday, it went video for the first time. We cut a promo video for the video-blog idea I’m about to explain. Be sure to check out the promo video at the bottom of this blog. Be looking for a special guest appearance by Julia Thompson.
Here is the concept in its entire simplistic splendor:
You send me questions or make comments about anything you want, and I’ll respond and maybe answer.
You can send your comments via this blog by clicking the comments button below, e-mail bgabordi@tallahassee.com, private message me on Tallahassee.com, Twitter message @bgabordi, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogger.com or any other way you want.
We don’t have to talk about the newspaper or our Web sites, but we can. Just as with this blog, the video version can go in any direction we want.
I’ll respond every Wednesday (or so) and maybe more often on video. Depending on what you ask or say, maybe we’ll just focus on one topic or explore a few.
Why do this? Sometimes things are just easier to explain when you are talking to someone. On video, I can bring in visuals and people, that kind of thing. Plus, we might as well take advantage of the medium.
As an example: Say you want to ask me why it is taking so long for this story or that story to come together (a question I get whenever we are working on something with more depth, by the way). I might bring in a reporter or another editor to talk about it. Or I might not.
Maybe you want to make a point about something going on in local or state government. Or a big upcoming event, such as the Early Learning Coalition's “Ready For School Sock Hop” on Saturday, Aug. 29, just as an example.
Or maybe you want to talk about FSU’s football team. I’m always up to talk about sports.
In any case, I’m not going to answer every question or respond to every post. As always, manners and civility matter in what gets posted or responded to on the video. As I say in the promo video below, you be nice and I’ll be nice, and it’ll be fun.
Some people get angry that I won’t post every one of their two or three paragraph comments or questions, usually having nothing to do with what the rest of us are discussing. They are, in effect, hijacking the blog, trying to make my blog their blog.
Some have cited, for example, a perceived Constitutional right to take over the blog.
In that case, it would be so much better if they just do their own blog.
So no blog hijacking, good manners and let’s have some fun with this.
I’m betting it’ll be entertaining, and perhaps informative. Maybe.
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