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|Sunday, 22 August 2010, 1:06 am
Tags: Blogging, buzz, Google, social media
Something happened tonight that made me question everything I've done with social media since I first joined Twitter in late 2006.
You know me – I'm a complete web whore. I sign up for every site, try every web app, use every service I can find. It's my job, but I also love doing it. I believe in the Internet as a communication tool. I love trying the myriad new ways people are using it to connect and I believed that social media specifically had some magic new potential to bring us together.
When Google announced Buzz last year I was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon. I welcomed a competitor to Twitter that had the community features I loved in Friendfeed and Jaiku, and I thought Google had the best chance to create a second generation social network. I defended Google for its initial privacy stumbles and I began to use Buzz exclusively, replacing Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook. I built a following of over 17,000 people. I was happy.
Then last night I noticed that my Buzzes were no longer showing up on Twitter (I use a service called Buzz Can Tweet that has been pretty reliably rebroadcasting my Buzz posts to Twitter.) I looked more closely at my Buzz feed and noticed that there had been considerably less engagement over the past few weeks. Then I noticed that I wasn't seeing my posts in my Buzz timeline at all. A little deeper investigation showed that nothing I had posted on Buzz had gone public since August 6. Nothing. Fifteen posts buried, including show notes from a week's worth of TWiT podcasts.
Maybe I did something wrong to my Google settings. Maybe I flipped some obscure switch. I am completely willing to take the blame here. But I am also taking away a hugely important lesson.
No one noticed.
Not even me.
It makes me feel like everything I've posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves. All this time I've been pumping content into the void like some chatterbox Onan. How humiliating. How demoralizing.
Thank God the content I deem most important, my Internet and broadcast radio shows, still stand. I believe in what I'm doing there, and have been very fortunate to have found an audience. I'm pretty sure I would have heard from people if there had been 16 days of dead silence there. Hell, if we miss one show I get hundreds of emails. But I feel like I've woken up to a bad social media dream in terms of the content I've put in others' hands. It's been lost, and apparently no one was even paying attention to it in the first place.
I should have been posting it here all along. Had I been doing so I'd have something to show for it. A record of my life for the last few years at the very least. But I ignored my blog and ran off with the sexy, shiny microblogs. Well no more. I'm sorry for having neglected you Leoville. From now on when I post a picture of a particularly delicious sandwich I'm posting it here. When I complain that Sookie is back with Bill, you'll hear it here first. And the show notes for my shows will go here, too.
Social media, I gave you the best years of my life, but never again. I know where I am wanted. Screw you Google Buzz. You broke my heart.
76 Responses to "Buzz Kill"
Daniel Bentley on
August 22nd, 2010 9:28 am
Will you be sticking with twitter Leo?
zxspectrum on
August 22nd, 2010 9:32 am
Maybe it's a good time to redesign Leoville..it's soooo ugly!
Rowen Windsong on
August 22nd, 2010 9:35 am
@leolaporte This could be due to the Twitter legacy API being killed on August 31st. http://bit.ly/d3muWt
Chris on
August 22nd, 2010 9:36 am
The break up of any relationship can be tough, don't say anything now that you might regret later! The last thing you want is to have to crawl back to facebook after the hype over you quitting, and I presume buzz will be the same
Social Networks do have a function, for the random posts that give an insights into the world of another person they're perfect. I do agree with alot of what you brought up, Blogs are more suitable for what you post, wiki is more suitable for show notes and IRC is dare I say it more suitable for people chatting while following the live show, all controlled by you.
That's how I see it. Everything has it's place, nothing is the answer to everything.
Dave Friedrich on
August 22nd, 2010 9:36 am
despite how sad this sounds, i truly think the things you say are too valuable for microblogging. its rare someone has a lot to say and i want to hear *all* of it. blog it up!
Insane Ninja on
August 22nd, 2010 9:37 am
Have a menu tab for showing posts of "this week's tweets" like andy does.
MrNaturopathy on
August 22nd, 2010 9:41 am
Gee, Whats Next Google Voice…………..
Steve Visscher on
August 22nd, 2010 9:42 am
Oddly enough Leo, I found this post whenI saw it pop up in your twitter feed. I think the problem is that there are just too many social media products all doing the same thing. This makes it difficult for everyone to notice, unless you aggregate your content across all services.
Google Buzz was an unnecessary foray into the micro blogging sphere, and Google effectively killed it when they goofed on the security issue early on. This lost the trust of many, and when Twitter is so dominant in this arena, most saw no reason to change. I include myself here.
I use my Twitter & Facebook feeds purely as a marketing tool for my podcast. Outside of that, I keep the content I think is important enough not to be forgotten on my blog & website – there in perpetuity for all to read, if they so choose.
And even before Buzz broke your heart, this was a lesson I learned from you.
Rodrigo Dreamboy on
August 22nd, 2010 9:43 am
Blogging, the old standard, it's time to streamline things Leo!
Good for you, when you have to many internet podiums to stand from
your voice gets a little less loud. I look forward to more of your blog posts
and welcome back!
Cromely on
August 22nd, 2010 9:43 am
You raise some interesting points, Leo, but I think it overstates it to think people weren't listening to you when they heard you, just because no one said anything when they didn't hear from you.
If social media is like a big public square where we can listen to the people we want to hear, then we do hear you when you speak. But we're also listening to hundreds of others. When you walk through that square everyday, if one of the hundreds of voices you often here is suddenly silent, then it may take a while to notice. Unless you are one of the really annoying folks there, or a close personal friend, your absence won't be noticed.
In other words, when present you are noticed and can provide value. When absent, well, we get distracted.
Besides, it's not like I'm going to think, "Hey, I haven't head from Leo lately," because your constantly talking in my ear when a new show comes out.
The reason no one noticed, is that your are not supremely annoying, nor are you a close personal friend, nor are you ever absent from your fans' lives.
To thow another analogy into the soup, since many of us just dip into the social media stream throughout the day, my assumption would be that I simply missed the posts of someone I haven't heard from.
You shouldn't neglect Leoville. The Blog form is powerful. It's also a very different tool for a different purpose than Buzz, Twitter, Jaiku, or any of them. The biggest mistake bloggers make with social media is thinking it's a replacement for a blog.
Microblogging is a much a replacement for Blogging, as a hammer is a replacement for a violin.
Ben Ralph on
August 22nd, 2010 9:45 am
I found this post from Twitter. Just Saying.
Gwendolyn on
August 22nd, 2010 9:52 am
So did I, oddly enough. :p
Sarah-Jane Gray on
August 22nd, 2010 9:55 am
Hi Leo.
This is very interesting and made me think too about the value of social networking. I think you also illustrate the importance of keeping control of your content too, which I always think about keeping copies of the content I post out on social networking sites and do back up this content so that you can then publish it where ever you want, especially should the site hosting the content disappear. Maybe it might be worth using the tool that Gina Trapani developed for doing just this. Your posts belong to you after all.
Take care.
Dan Menssen on
August 22nd, 2010 9:55 am
You have been saying for a long time that Twitter is the "central nervous system" of the internet. After a night of heavy drinking (or an hour at TWiT Cottage during the wine sponsor days), you lose some brain cells. The next day, you don't notice they're gone and you don't feel stupider. But after a lifetime of heavy drinking, the system starts to fall apart.
I love when a link from @ebertchicago, a non sequitor from @georgelazenby, a joke from @hotdogsladies, or an incredible design technology from @jnack brightens my day. If any one of these people stopped twittering, would I be upset? Would it change my life? No. But the summation of all these posts in my twitter feed unquestionably provides me something that can't come from anywhere else. Something that is not quantifiable by each individual involved.
You have a hugely important and influential voice in the tech industry. Don't remove yourself from the pulse of our time, our zeitgeist, just because it's not a good way for your devoted followers to see everything you post, unconditionally.
A Person From The Internet whose singularly meaningless contribution to the collective aether of consciousness is at twitter.com/menssen
xabbott on
August 22nd, 2010 10:00 am
Does this mean you'll read email again too? 😉
Bjørn on
August 22nd, 2010 10:01 am
Welcome back, Leo I enjoy the micro blogs, but they are no replacement for personal websites. Also, as we are slowly beginning to realize, there are definite downsides to relying on a third party to manage all our personal information and data.
And I deactivated buzz after Google's their privacy blunder so I never read what you posted there. A blog like this is available to everyone — but please choose another commenting system. People shouldn't be obligated to register at another service in order to post comments. I look forward to reading your blog again
Mathew Packer on
August 22nd, 2010 10:03 am
Welcome back Leo. Glad I kept Leoville in my RSS reader all this time.
suprfluo on
August 22nd, 2010 10:06 am
It's not really Buzz's fault though, it's the fault of that obscure plug-in you've been using (buzz can tweet) it's not really something that buzz is responsible for so it's a bit unfair to blame it.
ET on
August 22nd, 2010 10:10 am
I have been thinking about this recently too. I think that your website should be the center with Twitter and the like as helpers. If anything just automated tweets when you post an entry.
Cocoy on
August 22nd, 2010 10:11 am
You were right then that Twitter is the nervous system of the Internet. You're not wrong about that. That premise still holds true today, imho. the fastest news source is still on twitter. I even met a potential client on twitter just recently. While I didn't follow you to Buzz, I still follow TWiT and Macbreak Weekly because that's the most important thing. imho, social networks are like moons and blogs, and podcasts or whatever business you are is the Earth.
Recently, I saw that a business on local TV was advertising their Facebook link and not their blog.
Social media should revolve around us. It is a channel for people reach us with and interact and get that sense of community. At the end of the day, Social Networks are only effective if they channel back to you. Like email they're conduit to us, I think we've all forgotten that a little— so thank you for reminding us.
Tom on
August 22nd, 2010 10:15 am
Uhm, Leo, sorry you trusted Google, but can't you just use some importer tool to get most of your stuff from your external sites back into your main blog? And what about friendfeed, which seems to still be chugging along with buzz-style commenting (before buzz existed) along after all these years?
punterjoe on
August 22nd, 2010 10:17 am
Don't be disheartened. You're so connected, having a single channel down is less noticeable. Don't give up on Buzz because it let you down. Stay involved & help them improve the service with your feedback. Some things are worth the effort to fix.
Still… it's good to have a backup channel.
Elix on
August 22nd, 2010 10:17 am
For what it's worth, Leo, I did notice. That being said, 1 out of >17,000 is a statistical anomaly.
I believe social media has its place, and I'm going to back up Cocoy's opinion that social networks are the signpost on the net that points out where you live (e.g., twit.tv, Leoville, what-have-you). I've never believed the marketing hype that social networks are somehow the future, but I fear that many have drank from the kool-aid and are trying to pass cups around (anything to do with Facebook, for one).
I'm looking forward to listening to tomorrow's TWiT. This should be interesting.
Elix on
August 22nd, 2010 10:20 am
Except that I couldn't see Leo's Buzz posts in my Buzz timeline. Leo didn't even see his own posts in his combined timeline. The only way to see the posts was to load Leo's profile and pull up the Buzz section. The fact that BuzzCanTweet wasn't federating his Buzz posts out to Twitter was Leo's first tip-off that something was wrong.
I'd say that that's Buzz's fault.
Chris Lawrence on
August 22nd, 2010 10:24 am
It's true, I find it much more satisfying when no one reads my blog than when no one reads my Twitter.
Greiner on
August 22nd, 2010 10:26 am
I think the question has never been if you like the current situation or not. I guess it's more about communication, speed and to find out how to use newer technologies to improve/enhance the "old" ones.
That's why in my opinion the answer mustn't be "tweeting instead of blogging" but should be something like "tweeting to enhance blogging".
Travis Greuel on
August 22nd, 2010 10:28 am
Leo, I love your work. You have been a pioneer in Internet Media and an insipration to Tech Guys everywhere. I subscribe to your podcasts and read your blogs. I never missed the lack of Twitter posts (I never did like Buzz) because quite frankly, they were boring. Please don't condemn all Social media because of it.
Mark on
August 22nd, 2010 10:33 am
I am starting to think the same thing…. I do like my tumblr, but i must admit i find it hard to comment on other posts…
Technogran on
August 22nd, 2010 10:44 am
Just glad that you have finally seen the light. A blog is the only method to say anything worth while, lasting, and worthy. All the rest are for broadcasting about your blog post. Long live blogging!
BBto Gallego on
August 22nd, 2010 10:50 am
what i think about google buzz is good google buzz is nothing bad , i have no one using buzz but i just click follow and follow and follow , and they follow me back , and ive met people even from the india china arabia and make friends ,so i think its great having buzz around>
Rich Baxter on
August 22nd, 2010 10:55 am
Buzz was too complicated for the average Joe, hence it's early demise. Glad your back on Leoville. Yes it was a long time since you posted here, but the great news is that your back.
You can backup your tweets and stuff on 'Backupify' for a record of what you've contributed to social media. Twitter is the platform of choice, it's fast, short and it's well accepted.
Thanks for being my inspiration to begin podcast too! I've had mine going for several years now and have my first sponsor signed up.
Phillies Talk Podcast
Zuco Pietro on
August 22nd, 2010 10:58 am
Interesting! I was thinking about how much attention people pay to micro-blogging. As you said maybe they are busy just broadcasting info than just reading what others say. In fact, if what you think is true, it is a total waste of time to pay too much attention to those microblog services and forget the traditional blog.
This makes me think…
Ricksvill on
August 22nd, 2010 11:05 am
I have never got Buzz myself. I only use Twitter as a news feed now also.
With a blog you know whose come to see you and you know they are only here to see you.
Mark Essel on
August 22nd, 2010 11:06 am
Good tip, but I think the extreme reaction-> microblogging has no value may be off. Some folks may have noticed but it's hard to hear silence in a room of shouting people. Your lack of posts on buzz were swallowed up by others' updates.
Michael on
August 22nd, 2010 11:09 am
I've always held the opinion that "tweeting" and all services like twitter are pretentious and/or narcissistic. I really don't care that "Sallys" about to go run to the store or that "Johns" eating a burger at his favorite little restaurant. I wish I wasn't aware of half of the remedial crap that I (we all) have to do from day to day. Don't get me wrong, there are practical uses for this type of technology.
Martyn Walker on
August 22nd, 2010 11:10 am
Presumptious of Google to name it Buzz anyway, pehaps it came over in a Wave of social media apathy orkut it be just that search is all they can bebo?
Will on
August 22nd, 2010 11:16 am
I dis actually notice them missing, but its so hard to get you attention. by the way, notice just about all replies are from twitter…
Sue on
August 22nd, 2010 11:21 am
I noticed you were gone! Wondered if you'd given up on Twitter. I hope you'll stay with Twitter even just to post pointers to your blog.
Wayne Karrick on
August 22nd, 2010 11:22 am
I do agree with you. Blogs are the better way to go. Keep in mind I, like many others, tend to use the services more like news feeds(twitter, windowslive, facebook so on). So, I wouldn't discount them all yet.
Just keep the TWiT network rockin.. and i'm sure we'll all be watchin..
Chatterbox on
August 22nd, 2010 11:22 am
You are a very busy guy Leo so its understandable you may not have noticed for a few days, but yes it does give food for thought about using social media.
Tod on
August 22nd, 2010 11:49 am
You are most have something to show for the past 2 years of your life. Your podcasts encouraged me to make a career change and improve my quality of like 10 fold.
markbratanov on
August 22nd, 2010 11:51 am
I noticed that no post were being publicised. But I thought something was wrong with MY buzz. Oh the irony.
Craig on
August 22nd, 2010 11:59 am
I have had you in my Google Reader feed for a couple years, but I just realized I was following you Friendfeed. Switching to the Leoville feed.
Michael Wagner on
August 22nd, 2010 12:08 pm
I couldn't agree more Leo. I've always considered the micro blog type sites nothing more than a playground where your posts have a life measured in minutes before they are burried in other posts. Put it on a blog and it's there forever.
Many have said RSS is dead. This is a prime example of why RSS has more value than ever.
Linh on
August 22nd, 2010 12:10 pm
To be honest, I thought you were taking a break with your daughter going off to college and all. But you're right, I wonder about the value of social media sometimes. On the one hand, I've been able to catch a few cool live things because I was following someone. Or got a deal on something. Or simply found out about something I wouldn't have otherwise. Not to mention being able to interact with folks like Rahul Sood at HP. You get a feeling of actual contribution when they acknowledge you.
On the other hand, does anyone want to know traffic has pissed me off this morning? Eh, probably a few people, but does it need to be broadcasted all over?
So for me, there's still a little value in following twitter users, it's a more live RSS feed I guess. The downfall is the lack of being able to start a conversation really. Blogs are still useful as a single point to collect your ongoings… and to cut back on excessive content over saturation.
Doug Hill on
August 22nd, 2010 12:12 pm
shhhhh…. I thought I heard something. Leo, did you say something?
Jeffrey Pia on
August 22nd, 2010 12:14 pm
I cannot disagree with this more. Microblogs are all I pay attention to these days. I rarely skim through my RSS reader and I never go directly to blogs checking for updates. You can write the most awesome post on your blog, but the only way I would ever read it is if you tweeted about it with a link.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Buzz. I don't use Buzz; I'm all about Twitter and I know as well as anyone how frustrating it can be when Twitter is overloaded. That said, it is really up to me to notice if the platform I'm communicating on is working and I would be a fool to use that as a reason to say Social Media in general sucks.
<< I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves. >>
This is the statement I disagree with the most. While there are certainly those out there who just shout across the canyon, I don't think this the case for the vast majority of us. To me Social Media is all about the conversation. In fact I'm so busy having conversations, it would be very easy for me to not notice if someone I was not talking with (a shouter) has gone silent.
My opinion as to why you yourself did not notice your social feed wasn't working is because you spent so much time shouting you failed to realize no one was actually responding. Had you spent more time talking to people instead of shouting, the people you were talking to would definitely have missed you.
Oh by the way, after I had written this comment, I went to add another social media site above and it erased my entire comment. Blogs aren't immune from suckage, sometimes shiz just happens.
Tino Kremer on
August 22nd, 2010 12:19 pm
Leo, I'm sorry to say but you missed the point. Services like Twitter or the not-so-well adopted Google Buzz are not there to replace your blog or other means of expressing yourself. They are there for another resaon. I still don't get why serious bloggers ditched their blogs and try to replace it with services like twitter. Come on, twitter allows you to have 140 characters at a time. No serious expression of thoughts can fit in that small space.
I use twitter for something else. I see twitter as a link sharing community. My friends are there, a lot of "strangers" are there finding my posts by searching in the huge database. I do not use it to replace my blog postings, I still blog. I export a link to my blog postings on twitter though. It allows me and many others to share links to interesting information. It also allows me to "broadcast" some small thoughts, not worthy enough to devote a whole blogpost to it.
And then for your observation nobody noticed. In fact, I think a lot of people noticed it. I have your twitter account in my stream as well. I also have twitlive, tricaster and other accounts linked to what you do. They have not gone silent. I was still able to keep up with what you do. Therefore no alarm bells were going off YET.
It becomes a problem when the community is too much spread out against the various services and sharing only reaches a small percentage of the community that might otherwise be interested in your stuff. That's when we have to do crap like feeding one service feeds to another like you did with Buzz Can Tweet etc. It broke something vital on twitter too as you were no longer able to participate in the twitter discusions around your posts as you simply didn't see them.
My advice, use the services wisely. Twitter is a nice broadcasting platform with might very well replace RSS if it didn't already done so. If you post a link to your blog posting on twitter, all twitter followers will be happy as they keep in touch with you. You might draw even new "followers" by doing so. A retweet is just one click away, something RSS can't do at all.
Social media like facebook, I couldn't agree more. They are a waste of time mostly. Though sometimes it can be useful too. Everyone should decide for themselves what to expect of it and keep wondering if still is what was expected, if not…. Ditch it !
Umair Itrat on
August 22nd, 2010 12:26 pm
I noticed there weren't show notes on buzz, but I thought it was because you were on vacation.
rahlquist on
August 22nd, 2010 12:33 pm
Leo I couldnt have said it better. You were the tree that fell that no one heard. I figured the reason I hadnt seen many tweets from you was you were busy. At least with your blog youve hung the sign on your own storefront and you and your readers/listenters will know where to find it.
Ken Edwards on
August 22nd, 2010 12:38 pm
I do agree that Microblogging has gotten in the way of real blogging, this has happened to me, too. But I like Twitter, and it is the current king. People use it, friends use it. I do not feel Twitter is a waste of time.
If you feel like Twitter is too fleeting, you should setup WordPress or whatever your CMS is to archive all your tweets here on your blog.
I never understoon Google Buzz's angle. I came to the realization very quickly after launch that it was nothing more than a place to read people's Twitter and Facebook posts – and honestly who needs that?
Kevin John Sanders on
August 22nd, 2010 12:45 pm
Well put! I think the simple truth is that there is an ocean of stuff to sift through on buzz, twitter, Facebook, Etc. Its much more simple to just go to the source, and know your getting it.
Jason French on
August 22nd, 2010 12:54 pm
Here. Here. Welcome back to Leoville. Time to make sure my RSS feed in Google Reader is still hooked up…
Will on
August 22nd, 2010 12:59 pm
This really is a terrible thing to hear. I run my own small blog, but due to lack of internet access where I am, my blog suffers. Twitter, Buzz, and Facebook are easier to access and update through my phone than my blog unfortunately.
Nezza on
August 22nd, 2010 1:03 pm
To be honest with you, I think that you were playing the media game but you forgot the social. Looking back to when I started following you on Twitter, it was when you were posting fresh, interesting but above all entertaining content such as your thoughts and opinions from China.
In recent months the updates that I have seen tend to be more about the delivery method then the content. For example, an update will appear in my Twitter timeline, linking to Buzz which in turn led to friend feed which then led to one of the blogs. That is four sets of hoops that you are asking your readers to follow, with the end content (recently) being a check-in in foursquare. The more times that I follow that chain and meet with a lack of content, the less likely I am to give my attention in the future.
Anonymous on
August 22nd, 2010 1:03 pm
Leo, your experience with Buzz is a great reminder that even where we have so many micro-blogging/status posting options, the only site we have meaningful control over is our own site. It has become almost unfashionable to focus on a blog but I can't help but think that is the better option. Rather post to your own blog in the first instance and have that content distributed across the social Web using whichever micro-blogging/update sites we prefer to use at that point in time as multiple points of contact for your original blog content.
I still love Buzz but the seemingly poor level of engagement, even compared to something like FriendFeed in its day, is worrying and may mean Buzz's demise like we saw Jaiku and even FriendFeed much of their momentum.
ctkscout on
August 22nd, 2010 1:09 pm
I agree with Tino in that these social media tools are just that and not intended to replace your blog. Like any good tool, it needs to be used for the right application and more so be available to use. A hammer is a good tool for certain jobs, and it really stinks when you need one and don't have one to use. I too was one of the first to get on the twitter bandwagon. For the longest time I didn't get all the people around me making it a priority to tweat all the time for every moment of their lives. Later I realized, these tools had served a purpose. The purpose for me was to utilize as a tool to stream new content announcements or updates that I felt relevant to my community. Another purpose being the community itself. I have made some significant contacts via these social media networks.
As far as the "no one cares or notices", well I see these tools a lot like TV. This is funny because TV is always criticized and weighed against the internet because of the availability of content on the internet vs the live streaming of TV. Yes there is a string of thoughts, comments, buzzes, tweats, that one can revert back to, but with these social media networks, they grow to be so large, most do not have the time or the desire to sift through all of this "old" (although maybe only a few minutes old" content. Like TV, your tweats, facebook updates, buzzes, ect. for the most part, are only seen by those watching in the moment. These microblogging tools have only acted as the DVR of social media. Who has the time to record hundreds, if not thousands of broadcasts and then review them for relevant content.
Fortunately the twitter community has found this a burden as well and you now have lists, hash tags, tweat deck (basically watch a wall full of TV's) and many other tools to make it more manageable.
Bottom line is that twitter, buzz, friendfeed, jaiku, the dead pounce, facebook, are only good for what you use them for. They are not a necessity but could be useful in keeping you connected to the network you intend to connect to some times.
Ericson Smith on
August 22nd, 2010 1:09 pm
Aweome Leo. Unless you're writing in your own blog or journal, your content can sometimes get lost within the service itself.
Take Facebook, for example. I subscribe to JoeFrank.com, awesome storyteller on the radio. He does these great posts on Facebook, but most of his audience probably never sees them. They're largely locked away from the rest of the internet! Imagine if he was doing them in his own blog!
That's why I left Facebook. And that's why I've since last week begun a policy of originating all content in my own blog, and simply linking to snippets of it on these other services.
I hope to see more posts from you on Leoville in the future. Don't be lazy
ctkscout on
August 22nd, 2010 1:11 pm
You are right, the focus we need to give as bloggers is on our blogs. People notice consistency in your blog, but could really care less about your social media.
Peggy G. on
August 22nd, 2010 1:12 pm
I signed up for Buzz because someone else told me how great it was. Sure, I started following a few people. Then the person who convinced me to do it stopped. So I stopped but then, you know, just like when you see your birthday presents and you try to shake the box to guess what it is, I went back. I've been wholly unimpressed every since. And I find it odd to see tweets there when I just read them on twitter. Like what's the point?
Michael Auerswald on
August 22nd, 2010 1:16 pm
Couldn't agree more Leo. If you (or anyone else for that matter) post anything on Twitter or the other services, it's more or less luck whether I read that post in a sea of other posts that constantly flood the user. If I do read it, I might even click the link right then and there. If not, it's immediately forgotten, as it disappears into the oblivion with the 500 other posts that followed. The blog on the other hand I'll add to Google Reader and I can read it whenever I want, and I can easily refer back to it later. Microblogging is great for last second announcements, or stuff you just want to push out as soon as possible. Also, while Twitter is hard to keep track of at times, Facebook is virtually impossible to follow IMHO. Stick with the blog and maybe announce interesting stuff on Twitter!
ctkscout on
August 22nd, 2010 1:17 pm
The tool worked, just realized I got here via twitter.
Mark Shroyer on
August 22nd, 2010 1:20 pm
Not to defend the social media too much here, but I have a couple issues with this…
First, in your buzz/twitter feed you say you'd dropped off the face of the earth since August 6th, but I'm pretty sure I've seen you on twitter since then. I retweeted the "Welcome to the new decade…" thing after seeing it in your feed on the 14th, and I distinctly remember your flatcakes post on the 15th. I don't know what happened buzz-side, but are you sure you actually dropped off of twitter, where I assume the vast majority of your followers live?
In other words, you note that your public-feed buzz followers stopped commenting, but wouldn't many of these actually be people who clicked through to buzz from their twitter clients — really twitter followers who just use buzz when they want to comment on something? At least, that's the pattern of my twitter/buzz usage. To them it wouldn't be a case of "Leo disappeared!", it would just be "I still see Leo, but it looks like buzz comments are broken, oh well".
More to the point, I think even if you did drop off the earth relative to those following you exclusively on buzz (and without access to your private feed), they may have assumed you were just taking a break. There's less expectation of regular content on something like twitter or buzz than there is with, say, a podcast. People are less likely to complain.
But like I said, not to defend the social media too much. I look forward to hearing what you have to say, regardless of the medium.
ctkscout on
August 22nd, 2010 1:21 pm
My point exactly.
Karla Homolka on
August 22nd, 2010 1:24 pm
Why am I even typing here? Leo never checked Buzz to see what was going on. Never really conversed with fans on twitter ala kevin smith https://twitter.com/thatkevinsmith
What about your STAFF – HOW Did they NOT notice? They should be following EVERYTHING you do and post……It's called social media for a reason – Maybe if you or your staff checked in daily to see what was going on – just sayin
Now Leo If you are going to just do a blog – please Tweet it so that I know that you just did a post. Like Clayton… I know exactly was is coming up or what he is doing.. https://twitter.com/claytonmorris
Ben on
August 22nd, 2010 1:25 pm
A couple of points.
I'm not sure about on Buzz, but on Twitter you seemed very one way – broadcasting but not engaging. For that reason I'm not sure that you ever really experienced social media as a 'normal' person would.
Secondly, social media isn't about the big guns like you. The beauty of it is that *everyone's* voice is approximately equal: you're just another voice in the crowd. If you go missing it's not such a big deal. I think that's a great strength, even if it is a little ego-shattering
Nathan Allen on
August 22nd, 2010 1:27 pm
Leo, i am a huge fan and love your updates, but i use social media from internet stars(and even the president of the internet) like RSS feed in to what they are doing, i have TWiT shows all over my readers, and didn't notice the lack of twits/buzz because i knew what was going on and didn't notice the lack updates because i always had a constant stream of what is going on (mainly because of TnT),
Rick on
August 22nd, 2010 1:36 pm
I just signed in to buzz to check it out. It looked as though you quit posting. As much as I don't like it, most of my friends, family, town, and local paper use facebook.
Brent on
August 22nd, 2010 1:40 pm
Good for you, Leo. Social media's only as useful as one makes it.
Don Callaway on
August 22nd, 2010 1:45 pm
Hey, Leo. You should follow me on Twitter. Heh.
Chris Webb on
August 22nd, 2010 1:45 pm
@leolaporte don't think it was a waste of time I just think you got lost in the noise for a bit, see @scobleizer 38,198 tweets
HateBadDesign on
August 22nd, 2010 1:50 pm
Great! You can start by doing us a favor and remove that stupid 'friend connect' band at the bottom of each page, taking up my valuable screen space.
MacSmiley on
August 22nd, 2010 1:53 pm
I love all your content, Leo. You hold up a level of professionalism combined with a personal touch I've admired for years.
I don't know about the people on Buzz, Leo, but when you switched from Twitter to Google Buzz, we began to <i>expect</i> to see less of you on Twitter. You stopped engaging with us on Twitter a long time ago.
I don't use Google's services beyond search and translation. Google's already got too much data about me from my searches and indexing. I turned off Buzz from the get-go. I also did not like the way Google Buzz seemed to reproduce entire articles instead of excerpts right within the Buzz post.
So I've ignored most everyone's posts from Google Buzz for those reasons.
By all means, Leo, do your soul-searching about social media and give us food for thought. Post your bloggings to Twitter and Google Buzz (didn't you LEAVE Facebook?) and we'll click-through.
But you needed to be engaged on Twitter in the first place for someone to notice you were gone. Otherwise, would you have even noticed if we <i>had</i> said something?
Manuel Iglesias on
August 22nd, 2010 1:56 pm
CovinaBob on
August 22nd, 2010 1:58 pm
Leo, don't be so hard on yourself. It is much more difficult for people to notice that something DID NOT occurr than to recognize that something DID occurr. If no one knows that a post was supposed to appear, no one will know that it is missing.
FlorinGrozea on
August 22nd, 2011 3:20 pm
Best years of your life? Ha, that's funny. They are just to come.
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The inaugural Southern California Junior Amateur Championship will take place at Industry Hills GC Oct. 17-18.
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STUDIO CITY/ONTARIO, CALIF. (JAN. 28, 2015) - The Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) and the Southern California PGA Section (SCPGA) today announced the creation of the Southern California Junior Amateur Golf Championship, which will be held Oct. 17-18, 2015. This event will be jointly run by the two largest golf entities in Southern California. The inaugural championship will be contested at Industry Hills Golf Club.
"We are excited to provide an opportunity for the younger generation of golfers to compete in their own prestigious competition," said Kevin Heaney, SCGA executive director. "Along with the SCPGA, we strive to provide opportunities for all Southern California golfers, especially those who represent the future of the game we love. These juniors are future SCGA members, so we're excited to include them in our activities during their junior golf careers."
"The Southern California PGA is pleased and proud to team with the SCGA to bring the inaugural Southern California Junior Amateur Golf Championship, a major golf event, to our junior golfers right here in Southern California," said Tom Addis, SCPGA executive director and CEO. "The SCPGA runs hundreds of events for juniors golfers each year, and we are thrilled to bring our tournament management and Rules expertise to such a high-profile event."
Industry Hills GC is a past host of a number of major golf tournaments, including the LPGA's Kia Classic, U.S. Open qualifying and SCGA Championships as well as being named 2010 National Golf Course of the Year by the National Golf Course Owners Association.
The Junior Amateur will be a 36-hole stroke play championship, with 104 boys and 104 girls each competing in a separate field. All competitors will play all 36 holes. The event is open to Southern California boys with a Handicap Index of 5.4 and below and Southern California girls with a Handicap Index of 9.4 and below. All competitors must be 18 years of age or younger as of Oct. 18, 2015. Players who have graduated from high school are not eligible. Exemptions have been granted to several prominent local junior champions.

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Today Gibraltar attractions can offer something for everyone, ranging from archaeological treasures, priceless artefacts, historical sites and natural history to a variety of shops, restaurants and night spots to entertain you.
Casemates Square
The first of our Gibraltar attractions is Casemates Square, named after the British Barracks located at the north of the square; throughout history, this area has served many purposes. Formerly the site of public executions, the commercial and social square contains remains of an old Moorish galley house and a gun mounted on a Koehler Depression Gun Carriage, of the type developed during the Great Siege.
A couple of old memorial tablets shown here give some idea of the age and history of these old barracks, converted into a shopping mall and restaurants with true 18th century character. Above these popular shops and restaurants, on the first floor, you will find more of our Gibraltar attractions, like the Fine Arts Gallery, housing regular painting exhibitions. Next door to the Fine Arts Gallery is the Gibraltar's Arts & Crafts Centre, which is also well worth visiting to pick up some locally made gifts. Further along this level are various other shops for your enjoyment.
Nowadays, this historic entrance to the City and the Main Street shopping area has become the hub of social activities.
Charles V Wall
Being one of the biggest of the Gibraltar attractions, Charles V Wall can be seen from a distance, cutting across the Upper Rock. This sixteenth century wall, descending from the ancient Moorish Wall, past Southport and Trafalgar Cemetery at the southern end of Main Street, was built in the reign of Charles V in 1552 by the Italian Engineer Calvi.
It was designed to defend the City after the attack of September 1540 by Turkish pirates (lead by Barbarrossa) who took over 70 captives to sell into slavery. When Charles V died, Phillip II took over the building of the wall and he decided to continue the top half further south, hence the continuation starting at the Apes' Den, named "Philip II Wall". This would greatly reduce any enemy attack by arrows, catapults etc from high ground into the lower reaches.
Devil's Tongue Battery
Located on Waterport Wharf Road, this old mole protected the seaward entrance to Gibraltar. It was originally the old Spanish pier, built during the reign of King Philip III.
Guns were placed at each of the gaps (embrasures) during the Great Siege, hence its importance as one of the Gibraltar attractions.
This mole is an extension of Chatham Counterguard; a drawbridge named the "Chatham Wicker" led on to the mole (the cemented blocked-up opening in the sea wall is still visible).
Europa Point
Europa Point is at the southern most tip of the Rock of Gibraltar and can be accessed by taking a guided tour or the No.3 bus, which runs from the frontier to Spain.
Here you will find several of the Gibraltar attractions; the Lighthouse (more information on this below) the impressive Mosque, the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe and some stunning views of the Strait of Gibraltar across to Morocco, North Africa.
Flat Bastion Magazine
Located on Flat Bastion Road, this interesting Geological Research Station, Lithology of Gibraltar and exhibition centre can be visited by prior arrangement only (contact us for further details).
Garrison Library
The Garrison Library is a handsome building and one of the more interesting of our Gibraltar attractions. Built on the site of the Governor's residence during the Spanish occupation. The Library was inaugurated in 1793 and houses a remarkable collection of works on Gibraltar.
Next to The Garrison Library were some of the offices of the Gibraltar Chronicle, Gibraltar's oldest newspaper (found in 1801); Europe's second oldest English periodical and the first to report the victory at Trafalgar. The Gibraltar Chronicle has since moved to newer premises at Watergate House, Line Wall Road.
Gibraltar, a City under Siege Exhibition
The buildings in which this exhibition is housed are probably one of the first buildings ever constructed by the British in Gibraltar, dating back to the beginning of the 18th century. Originally, it is thought that they were built as magazines and a laboratory to store and prepare ammunition. Some believe these buildings predate the British period and may well have been of Spanish origin (17th century). The area is known as Willis's Magazine, although there is no record of who Willis was and why it was given that name.
The most important aspect of the building, earning it a place as one of the Gibraltar attractions, is the graffiti that can be seen on the walls, the earliest of which dates back to 1726. It is thought that the solders in the area used to spend their time drawing graffiti so as not to fall asleep during the long hours of guard duty, an offence punishable by death in those days! Two outstanding examples of the graffiti are those featuring a drawing of a galleon together with some attributed to Sergeant Major Ince, the architect of the Great Siege Tunnels.
The exhibition demonstrates the terrible conditions the soldiers lived in, as well as an old drainage system and water cisterns used.
Access is just before reaching the WWII Tunnels and Moorish Castle on your decent from the Upper Rock (via road).
Gibraltar Museum
Experience and enjoy Gibraltar's fascinating 200-million year history with an audiovisual presentation and several galleries displaying original artefacts, old prints and photographs.
The Rock's rich and diverse natural history is also represented while the lower part of the building houses what is arguably the best-preserved 14th century Moorish Bath House in Europe. An impressive model of the Rock, as at 1867, leads to the Great Siege Gallery and a well documented display on our 'Gibraltar Woman' skull (discovered in 1848).
The Museum was officially opened on 23rd July 1930 by the Governor, Sir Alexander Godley and is situated in the premises which were the house of the Principal Ordnance Officer.
A "must visit" amongst the Gibraltar attractions.
Gibraltar Parliament
Built by public subscription in 1817, the former Commercial Exchange and public library building is now the seat of the Gibraltar Parliament (House of Assembly), situated in the centre of town at John Mackintosh Square.
Great Siege Tunnels
Located on the Upper Rock and one of the most famous of our Gibraltar attractions, the Great Siege Tunnels are fascinating and a cool retreat from the heat of the day.
The sieges of the late 18th century led to a network of tunneled defences being excavated in the Rock to allow the mounting of a prototype gun, the first ever able to fire downwards. This tunnel was the first to be excavated on the Upper Rock in 1782.
Jew's Gate
This is a fascinating, old Jewish Cemetery that was used up until 1848. It is tucked away behind the trees and reflects the important role the Jewish people have played in moulding Gibraltar's history.
John Mackintosh Hall
Perhaps not one of the most exciting, but significant, in our list of Gibraltar attractions, is the John Mackintosh Hall.
This Hall has become the centre of Gibraltar's cultural activities where some two hundred societies and associations meet regularly. It was opened by the Governor and Commander in Chief, General Sir Dudley Ward, on 8th April 1964.
The Hall contains a public library, a theatre, conference hall, gymnasium, spacious halls for exhibitions and other public functions and also includes a wing for higher education.
This complex was gifted to Gibraltar by the John Mackintosh Trust, following the wishes of the late John and Lady Victoria Mackintosh, most generous benefactors to Gibraltar.
Jumper's Bastion
This bastion, along Rosia Road, is named after Captain Jumper who was the first to land his troops on Gibraltar during the capture in 1704, for the Habsburg pretender to the Spanish Crown, Archduke Charles of Austria.
King's Bastion Leisure Centre
General Sir Robert Boyd, Governor of Gibraltar, built King's Bastion in 1772, although it was designed by Lt. Col. Sir William Green, Chief Engineer.
King's Bastion was the keystone of the defences during he Great Siege and it was from this bastion that the 'hot potatoes' (red-hot shots) were fired at the French and Spanish floating batteries.
This area provided accommodation for 800 men, an entire infantry battalion. General Sir Robert Boyd is buried inside a vault at the base of the bastion and a plaque on the north wall bears testimony to his work.
In 1896, after it had ceased to enjoy its front-line military role, works begun on the construction (within the bastion) of Gibraltar's first small power station.
Nowadays the bastion has been carefully transformed into our youth Leisure Centre which opened on 28th February 2008, retaining all the bastion's originally walls and features. The Leisure Centre has a bowling alley, ice-skating rink, multi-cinema, youth lounge, internet area, games arcade, restaurants and bars.
Landport Gate
This gate, reconstructed in 1729 by the British on the site of earlier Moorish and Spanish gates, was at the time the only landward access into the city. It was through this gate that the troops emerged to carry out the surprise attack on the Spanish lines during the Great Siege – the Sortie 26th November 1781.
Landport Gate is located at the beginning of Casemates Square and the Main Street shopping area.
Law Courts
The Law Courts are located near the far end of Main Street. Probably the most famous case heard here was that of the sailing ship "Mary Celeste" (1872) which was the greatest sea mystery of all time.
Gibraltar is also a popular wedding destination – John Lennon and Yoko Ono married at the Registry Office, in this building, on 20th March 1969 and many other famous people have also married here.
The Gibraltar Lighthouse dates back to 1841 and stands 49 metres above sea level with a range of some 37 kilometres. Now fully automated, is the only one regulated by Trinity House outside UK. The Lighthouse is located at the southern most tip of the Rock, Europa Point.
Lime Kiln
Located in the Upper Rock area, this kiln dates back to the late 19th century and is the last remaining lime kiln on the Rock.
These kilns (ovens) were used to produce lime, which was then used for the whitewashing of buildings, painting of water cisterns (so the water would remain free of bacteria) and for pouring over dead bodies in mass graves, to prevent further spread of disease.
Line Wall
Running along Line Wall Road, from the north face of the Rock to Europa Point, there has been a co-ordinated system of defence long before the British captured Gibraltar in 1704. These defences, some of which date back to the Moorish Period, were subsequently improved by Spain (1462-1704) and then by Britain (1704-1940s) and came to be known as Line Wall.
All the land to the west of this wall has been reclaimed from the sea during the last century, however, most of this reclaimed area were dangerous reefs, which actually helped to protect the ancient walls from a direct assault by sea.
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Phil Lewis: Jackson Lab project no Stadium Naples
The Jackson Laboratory issue is generating dozens of letters to the editor and guest commentaries, hundreds of online comments and quite a few direct e-mails to the news room.
Excellent questions have been asked and answered. Well-reasoned opinions — pro and con — have been expressed. Astute observations have been made. Most of the public discourse has been heartening ... but not all.
For instance, despite four months of news coverage and public forums some members of the community still believe Jackson Lab plans to raise mice for research in Collier County, just like they do in Maine. Those people haven't been paying attention.
Others who fall in the not-paying-attention category are the ones who fear county government involvement in the project will result in "another Stadium Naples."
Newcomers to the area might not appreciate the Stadium Naples reference. It refers to a 1997 plan to build a unique golf course in North Naples that would have stadium seating around the finishing greens, making it an ideal venue for professional golf tournaments. The plan was billed as a way to boost tourism and the local economy in general.
It ended with the misuse of public money and indictments.
Readers who were here during the government corruption investigation 10 years ago know just how ludicrous the Jackson Lab/Stadium Naples comparison is.
For the newcomers, here's what has to happen before you could use the two proposals in the same sentence.
First, Jackson Lab would have to change its status from a not-for-profit company to a private, for-profit company. Right after that, Jackson Lab would have to give one of the county commissioners a 12.5 percent stake in whatever is developed at the research park. That means the commissioner would get one-eighth of any profit the project would yield.
Second — in keeping with the Stadium Naples comparison — the commissioner would not have to invest any personal money. His 12.5 percent stake would be in exchange for his "marketing expertise."
Next, an investigative reporter from the newspaper would have to discover that another commissioner had received a $200,000 loan from Jackson Lab to start his own business without putting up collateral nor agreeing to a repayment plan. (The reporter would also have to discover that three commissioners had been receiving free research mice from Jackson Lab for personal use on weekends. There would also have to be evidence that county staff has been getting complimentary shipments of live Maine lobsters from Jackson Lab folks up in Bar Harbor.)
The newspaper articles would have to prompt great public outcry, including a call for an audit of how taxpayer money was used by Jackson Lab.
The commission would have to vote not to perform the audit.
Then, the governor — alarmed by the public outcry — would have to appoint a special prosecutor who would be "amazed by the institutional corruption" he found. The prosecutor would then have to hand down indictments on three elected officials.
Any comparison between the corruption of a decade ago and what's being proposed today is quite a stretch.
However, if you are looking for a Jackson Lab comparison, try using the 1997 opening of Florida Gulf Coast University.
It involved millions in public dollars, promises by government to build roads and infrastructure and concerns that the land owner donating the land would reap benefits. It also carried the potential to spur the economy and to forever change the region for the better. There also were risks and unknowns.
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Corey Hamilton, President of the UCO Language Society, is a senior working towards his Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Philosophy. In addition to serving as the Language Society president, he also serves as House Representative to UCO's Student Association for the UCO Language Society, the UCO English Society, and Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. Corey has previously served as President of the English Society and Treasurer of both the Symposium of Philosophy and Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Societies. Upon completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree, Corey plans on pursuing a Ph.D. in composition and rhetoric.
Meredith Seagraves
Meredith Seagraves, President of the UCO English Society, earned her Bachelor of Arts in English with numerous honors and awards in December 2009 and began work on her Master of Arts degree with emphasis on twentieth and twenty-first century literature in January 2010; her thesis discusses autobiography and fiction written by ethnic American authors and the ways in which these texts reflect unique modes of intercultural identity formation. In August 2010, she began an appointment as a teaching assistant in UCO's Department of English where she teaches first-year composition. Upon completing her M.A., Meredith will pursue her Ph.D. and plans to teach at the university level.
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Jennifer Bean, Vice President of the UCO Language Society, earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Education and Photojournalism in May 2011. After teaching high school for a year, Jennifer returned to UCO for her Master of Arts degree with emphasis on twentieth and twenty-first century literature. As an undergraduate, Jennifer was an officer in both the UCO English and Language Societies, and she currently serves as Senator for the UCO Language Society, Public Relations Representative for both English and Language Societies, a committee member for Academic Affairs, a member of the Public Relations Committee, and Vice Co-Chair of Graduate Student Affairs.
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Can you say, "Impaired Immunity Responses"? I can, because I've had some, these last few weeks and I've heard them described and defined enough times to clarify their meaning and their pronunciation…
It's been quite some time since I last set foot here in the web site, and even longer since I've logged a Blog entry, and in that time I've had a number of adventures . . . though misadventures would be a more appropriate term for them. I started out fine, at the end of last month, on November 30th, thinking and hoping to have come through the ordeal of surgery with flying colours, but then the first of a series of things went sideways and from that point onwards, it seems that the progression went surging forward like one of those endless, engineered cascades of falling dominoes. And so it's been several weeks, I believe, since I last said anything in here, or anywhere else, about my condition, and that's a situation that has to change here and now. Here goes, then, with a full report on the status of my health, past and present, and before I get into it I want to say a heartfelt "Thank You" to everyone who wrote to me, offering support and encouragement on the threshold of what I was facing.
We have known for three years (my thoracic specialists and I) that I had an indeterminate but clearly defined "mass" in my left lung that might or might not have been there since my boyhood. It resembled old scar tissue and for as long as we had been "watching" it—beginning late in 2009, it had appeared to be dormant. This year, however, in a routine CT scan taken at the beginning of November, there were definite signs of activity and growth in the mass; sufficiently so for it to be redefined as a definite tumour rather than a simple mass. My specialists decided immediately to go in there and root the thing out as quickly as possible, while it was still dense, small and self-contained. The location of the thing, close to the outer wall of the upper lobe of my left lung, indicated that there was a good possibility of going in arthroscopically, through a series of small holes rather than a major incision, and extracting the entire lobe of the lung with the growth in situ. None of us could see any point in postponing the event once the decision had been taken and so the procedure was scheduled for the morning of November 30th. I presented myself at the hospital as scheduled and the operation was performed successfully, the lobe removed cleanly and precisely. Everything looked good and everyone felt optimistic.
Then, though, 48 hours later, something went wrong and my lung collapsed. I don't remember anything about it by that point, but I spent the next eight days in Intensive Care. There was blood in my lung cavity and they had to get that out of there before they could attempt to reinflate the lung itself, and while the medics were struggling with that, I developed pneumonia, just to add a little spice to the mixture… I now know I was really sick for a while, because my wife was there all day every day for the entire time and I don't remember seeing her once. And the word was out among my friends that I was in deep trouble (I live in a small community wherein there are few secrets) but as I said earlier, I have absolutely no recollection of anything during that entire period other than a few nightmarish flickerings at the back of my mind that I've no wish to acknowledge or explore… And that, in itself, probably says more about the experience than anything artful I could dream up.
Anyway, my specialists were magnificent; their efforts were successful, I started breathing again and we licked the pneumonia, so that I came through it all to find myself back in the general population of the hospital, where I spent several more days gathering my faculties and being watched by a horde of vigilant overseers to whom I'll be grateful for ever. Funnily enough, those three or four days in the general ward now strike me as being longer than the rest of the time I spent in hospital, and they were days of great discomfort in which I was hooked in a dozen different ways to an entire array of machines and devices, from monitors to intravenous drips. I was full of plumbing, too, with two chest tubes inserted into my body—one from each of the two procedures I had undergone—and until all of that gear and paraphernalia was removed there was no question of my being released to go home.
Finally, though, the day came when, after one final, confirmatory X-ray, I was released, unencumbered by extraneous devices and showing only a number of incisions—all healing nicely—and a few sutures left over where they had removed the last of the surgical tubing/drains from my incisions. And I came home a week ago, thinking, "Hallelujah, free at last!"
Well, not quite free at last, as it transpired… And that's where the phrase, "Impaired Immunity Responses" comes back into play. See, you can't just go home after having a few pounds of flesh traumatically removed from your innards, and take up where you left off. It hurts too much, and you wouldn't believe (unless you've been there) just how much it hurts and how many varieties of hurtfulness the pains can use to present themselves . . . and for days on end, that's how it goes: pain, unbelievably intense at times, rapidly followed by sudden, utter exhaustion as you quickly learn what people are talking about when they speak of "hitting the wall". Hard as it might be to believe, reading that, I didn't know that until I tried it. Thank God they gave me powerful medications to combat the pain and the strain! But even the meds caused problems of their own, because they, too, are toxic in their own ways, and the old body very quickly developed a mind of its own about what would, could, did and didn't interest or engage it. And so I've been dawdling along, going from one low-grade infection—not dangerous but cumulatively debilitating—for the entire week since coming home... Couldn't sit upright, or stand for long; still can't walk far and haven't been able until last night to sleep lying flat.
I've been so sick I couldn't even read, and that's a major glitch, because I can't remember ever having spent as much as a week without reading something and now I've been wordless for more than a month. I've had three books by favourite authors going since I came home and I haven't been able to get involved in any of them. As for writing anything, I don't think I have the words to describe how disinterested I've been in even thinking about writing anything at all. I managed to grind out a couple of short emails to various people, because I felt hag-ridden with guilt about being silent, but that has been the total extent of my output until this evening, and I can't even identify why I'm able to write this tonight, unless it has something to do with the fact that I haven't taken any pain medication since this time last night. That must be it, because I haven't done anything else that's different. I'm not going to be able to hold out much longer, though, because I can feel pain now that hasn't been there all day today…
Anyway, the pathology report on my surgery came back yesterday: The growth was definitely cancerous and malignant, but it appears to have been tightly self-contained and removed successfully. There are no signs of contamination or infection in any of the surrounding lymph nodes, and the liver and kidneys are clean and clear, and all of that adds up to a conclusion that I have no need to undergo either radiation or chemotherapy, and that I should be back to health and fully functional in six weeks' time. That six weeks is a time period that everyone keeps emphasizing, insisting that I have to take it easy from now until then and give my old frame time to heal itself. But that's it: if all goes well (and I intend to make sure that it does) I'll be back in charge of myself by the end of January and striding forward from there, I've lost a bunch of weight that I couldn't afford to lose in the first place, so my priority now is to build up my strength and my haemoglobin, exercising every day, and to regain the weight and muscle tone I've lost while concentrating on getting back to fitness.
Of course, I'll be under the eye of the microscope constantly from now on, with ongoing supervision every three months for a couple of years, then semi-annually for another couple and once a year after that. But hey! I'm now a lung cancer survivor and I want to tell the world it feels good!
Damn straight it feels good!
I can't tell you how happy I am to see your presence here - checked your site first thing this morning, like I do several times a day - and here you are! Live and in colour!
So cancer looked at you, you stared back and stared it down. Not least of all I'm sure you were damn angry this bloody thing got in the way of important things you need to do - unfinished business!
Well, you're here and I am sitting in my robe with my first cup of coffee and lifting it in salute. Well done, Legate Whyte. Decurion Anderson is ready to march with you. :-)
*monstrous hug and a twirl around the floor - gently*
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
On behalf of Beth Shope
Dear Jack,
I know what you mean when you say sometimes there are no words that will suffice, so I am simply offering prayers for you, along with waves of compassion.
Beth Shope
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
Take it easy!
Glad to hear you are doing much better and things are looking good! Take it easy and let things progress as nature intended in regards to the healing.
Your accounts of the previous weeks adventures has brought back ( buried ) memories of my own, of a similar situation. The reasons for it were vastly different from yours but the methods to "fix" me, seem to be very much the same. Having gone through it, please don't push yourself. I did. And being a stubborn git...( it's a genetic thing! But you know that. : ) I ended up doing more damage that required even greater intervention on the part of surgeons etc. to fix it. Don't go there! It's not worth it.
Take your time, enjoy your rest as best you can. You'll be up and about in no time, but let your body decide when the time is right for that. Not your head.
All the best!
Great news!
Glad to hear that, although everything did not go as well as one would have hoped it would have, that the prognosis for a full recovery is very promising.
My uncle had much the same diagnosis when he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from one of his lungs. The softball sized tumour was completely self-contained, and no chemo or radiation was necesssary. It's been over 10 years now, and he's still cancer free.
Needless to say, he gave up smoking. He'd been a heavy smoker for years. I think he felt himself quite lucky to have caught it when he did, and that was only due to a work injury that required a chest X-ray. It was that X-ray that uncovered the existence of the tumour growing in his chest cavity, along with several broken ribs.
Anyway ... glad to hear you're on the mend. Here's to being able to celebrate Christmas with your family, and not having a big question mark hanging over your head.
Well done mate . . .
As I said in an earlier post, do us all a favour and concentrate on you and yours.
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to update us, I'm sure we all appreciate that.
You might not have read, but you can be read TO. I listen to audiobooks while I drive to work (Rebel, being one of yours - OK Forest Laird). Even if you fall asleep, just 'rewind' to where you remember it last.
Congratulations and a huge well done for having the PMA. It works wonders and without it all the medicine in the world can't win.
Bye for now
Best wishes
Thank goodness you're well on the road to full recovery Jack,
Welcome Back!
It's good to know you're making progress on your journey back to 'the land of the living', Jack. You're the best possible Christmas present your family and friends could receive this year. After my own cancer surgery my hubby reminded me of what his doctor had once told him, and I pass it along to you: "Listen to your body." Be patient with yourself and take all the time you need to fully recover.
Wishing you a blessed (and restful) Christmas!
I heard the Halaluea Chorus!
So good to hear from you! I heard music in my mind when I saw that you had posted an update.
Recovery from any kind of surgery, not to mention one that had complications, is a time consuming and frustrating time. I know what you mean by not being able to sleep. When I had my surgery, I felt like a rotisserie chicken, because I couldin't find a way to get comfortable enough to get into a deep sleep. This will pass.
I call cancer treatment, "slash, poison and burn". I'm very glad to hear that you aren't facing more treatment. The time for healing seems endless, until you look back and go, "Cripes, it has been eight years clear!, Where did the time go!"
You'll find as you can wean yourself off of the pain meds, that your interests and concentration levels will increase, as will your appetite. I only wish I could send you a few extra pounds. Christmas with all the goodies should make it easier to recoup some of that lost weight.
I'm sitting here, with my "Jack Whyte" mug, sipping Celtic Twist tea rejoicing that you are on the mend. Continue to heal and be well my friend.
Warm and gentle hugs to you and Beverly
best wishes
I am so glad to hear that you are doing better Mr. Whyte. I feel lucky to have read your books, and honored to have traded emails with you in the past. Take your time, and get well! You are in my thoughts every day!
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I was delighted to read your personal health update this morning on your blog. I'm doubly delighted to be able to look forward to hearing you belt out the hippo song next year in Surrey.
Good health and well wishes for a swift and complete recovery,
Annee Brizo
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
Feel better!
What a bumpy sea you've been on. May it be smooth sailing from now on.
Wishing you and yours a peaceful, pain-free Christmas.
Christmas Greetings and Get well wishes
Wishing you and yours all the best for the holidays and happy to hear you are on the mend. Try not to overdo at Hogmanay.
Cheers and Bright Blessings
Feeling Better
Great news! So happy to hear you are on the road to health and strength. Be patient and mend well.
Dear Jack
I hope you are fine now.
I worried so much about this post, but I read that you overcame the problem and I'm calm now.
I'm hoping and praying that you are completely recover.
Please let us know about.
My affection for you is immense. I love you.
Tatiana from Brazil (@LeitoraViciada2)
Sorry for my weak English.
We miss you, please notice us, Jack. Lots of love.
I have been hoping you would recover as quickly as possible, although I knew it would take some time. I am sorry to hear about the "complications" (I just shuddered) but glad that you overcame them and are at home. Mend and stay well! I am selfish enough to hope you will make When Words Collide 2013. Then, I would get a chance to say hello personally. Again, thank you for the great stories and conversations.
John Archer
Hello, Jack, I hope you be
Hello, Jack, I hope you be better
Message passed on from Ginny
Hi Jack,
I'm toasting your continuing progress with high octane coffee in my over-sized Jack
Whyte Coffe Mug from Surrey.
Sending some "get well" fairy dust your way,
Ginny McQueen
Coffee mugs
I'd love to see pictures of these coffee mugs.
Image from Forty Years in Canada
The image is from Jack's memoir 'Forty Years in Canada' on page 150. We asked permission of the artist to use the image (we, being the Ladies of Lallybroch) and were given a one time only permission to put it on some coffe mugs. Some of them didn't turn out (very minor flaws),and so those of us in the loop were lucky enough to have one too. Michelle, from the Authors Attic was the person to have them made. I'd post of picture of mine, but it resides in Rio Rancho, NM, where it gets well used. (I am a tea addict!)
We are heading south soon, and I will try to remember to take a picture of it to use as my ID picture! *G*


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Bruce Mikells Explains "How Men Talk To Their Wives On The Phone" [Video]
Next March I will have been married for officially half of my life. I know to my wife Jill, our 25 years of married life seems a lot longer. For me the quarter of a century has flown by, mainly because I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention. I am a man. I am hard wired through my DNA to not notice a lot of stuff.
It is my right and I come by it honestly. If you don't believe me, here we have video proof. You might think this gentleman in the video is being extremely rude but if you watch for the entire :30 seconds you will understand what an amazingly kind and giving person he is.We guys stick up for each other even if we are total strangers.
The real truth of the matter is I hardly hear half the things Jill says to me. It's not that I am being rude, it is science. It is a proven fact that the tonal qualities of the female voice in direction giving, family update or plans for the evening mode actually shut down certain segments of the male brain. It is this uncontrolled shutdown that renders us speechless and unable to form words. That is why we only say uh huh and make grunting noises while you are rattling on like a truck full of empty cans.
It is nature's way of protecting our minds from being filled with inconsequential information like a child's birthday party, your current weight loss issue and the fact that the house might really be on fire. Ladies, I know I am not bursting any bubbles or preconceived notions you have about the male of species. We are hard headed, inattentive and have one thing on our mind. Unless it's football season, then we have that on our minds only during halftime, commercials and replays. After Jill reads this in lieu of flowers please buy a St Jude Dream home ticket.


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Best-selling national newspaper Zaman, read by voters of the ruling party, tried a positive approach to bringing the nation together in a late 2012 ad titled "A call for unity and brotherhood." Set to soothing string instruments and a sturdy drumbeat, the commercial shows Turkish citizens of many ethnicities and occupations joining hands in a joyous human chain that's encircling the nation. A singer explains how all people in the world want freedom, and despite differences, tolerance is within reach. On-screen text explains, "This is a call for unity. This is the time for unity." At the end of the ad, we see a Kurdish Peshmerga, either a freedom fighter or a terrorist, depending on one's perspective. Though some considered the Kurdish element provocative, most have been supportive of the spot, feeling that it's time to find a new middle ground.


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They were a three generation Italian American family steeped in traditional values. Carol Gino's old world father was a stern disciplinarian who loved opera and polkas; her mother a shy, tradition-bound housewife, while Carol herself had made a spiritual journey away from her Catholic roots. But nothing in the Gino family's past could ever have prepared them for the tragedy that would change all their lives forever.
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