A twinge of virtual stage fright

Chris Unitt
Friday, July 17th, 2009

Facing a sea of faces from a stage can wrack the nerves. Writing your first post on someone else’s blog can too.

My name’s Chris Unitt and, if I’m feeling slightly fraudulent posting here then it’s because I’m certainly no poet. In fact, although I often write professionally, I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a ‘proper’ writer either.

I’m a blogger. To get all metaphorical about it, Wordpress is my stage, Delicious and Evernote are my notebooks and Twitter is the chat in the bar afterwards. Here’s me with a computer, see?

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I’ve been doing a little work with the good folk of Apples and Snakes and they’ve kindly asked me to provide some thoughts on this blog over the next couple of weeks.

I suppose, because the aim of MPOY is to explore real and virtual space and given my profession, I should concentrate on the virtual. However, what interests me are the places where the on and offline worlds intersect – hopefully (but not always) for the better.

In any event, real and virtual spaces are both going to play an important part in my life over the next few weeks. As far as the real world is concerned, I’m about to go and catch a plane to Guyana – I’ll be staying in the capital, Georgetown, for the next four weeks.

I’ll be there to teach web skills to youth groups and charities – that’s where the virtual comes in. You can read more about the project on the Digital Guyana blog.

There should be plenty for me to write about. In the meantime, I need to finish packing.

(Photo by Lee Allen)

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  1. Charlie
    July 17th, 2009

    Just clicked on your blog for the event – what an amazing football team name – ‘The Golden Jaguars’:) I”ll try and convince the Baggies that we should rename WBA similarly….
    Reading your blog I’m wondering how long old school journalism will exist? The tradition of expanding on a press release with a few soundbites seems irrelevant when you can click on a link straight to the source for an immediate update. Outstanding columnists and opinion stirring wordsmiths will survive the meltdown though:)
    Enjoy your trip, and look forward to the updates…..

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  2. Chris Unitt
    July 21st, 2009

    Hi Charlie

    Yeah, I don’t claim to be an expert on the way online journalism is headed, but I think you’ve hit on something – quality writing skills can’t be replicated so easily and that’s where the opportunity lies for writers. Founding a business on copying and pasting press releases might be easy but it might not have any longevity.

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