Note the date.
No, specifically note the YEAR. Yes, this blog post comes after two full years of silence.
At the end of the last decade, I sought out to deconstruct it (or its symbols rather) through this blog. I proposed my plan of attack, my goals and began on my quest. And, although the first several posts were engaging, I failed.
If I was Wells Fargo or Bank of America, I would really get my PR people on this situation. It might go something like this:
Dear Valued Blog-Reader:
The recent climate of the blogging industry has put us all on edge and we realize the struggles that we are facing together affect you as much as us. With the rising number of blogs, we know you have a choice of which blogs to read and which blogs to follow, and we heartily thank you for placing your blog trust in us at Deconstructing the Decade.
Our recent failure to post in some time has no doubtfully caused you, our valued reader, concern. While the nature of this format is always in danger of certain kinds of silence, and internal circumstances helped to stoke that fire, we recognize how these errors have affected you. We want to take this opportunity to address this concern head on and ease any fears as deal with this difficult time in blogging history together.
We stand by our pledge to you to continue to give you thought provoking blog posts, as well as the opportunity to for you to post your own thoughts and rhetorical commentary.
Again, we apologize for any inconvenience we have personally caused you.
With highest regards and thanks,
Deconstructing the Decade
Alas, I don't have a PR firm--or a readership to warrant one--but I do want to own up to the fact that I haven't addressed this blog the way I had hoped and to re-pledge my intent to do so. Since this blog posting is the "re-birth" of this project, I thought an apropos symbol would be the famed bank bailout during the 2008 recession.
With that, I'll open it up to commentary and thoughts on this:
How did the 2008 recession, specifically the "bank bailout," affect the symbolic American Dream that generations have been working towards since the 1950s?
No, specifically note the YEAR. Yes, this blog post comes after two full years of silence.
At the end of the last decade, I sought out to deconstruct it (or its symbols rather) through this blog. I proposed my plan of attack, my goals and began on my quest. And, although the first several posts were engaging, I failed.If I was Wells Fargo or Bank of America, I would really get my PR people on this situation. It might go something like this:
Dear Valued Blog-Reader:
The recent climate of the blogging industry has put us all on edge and we realize the struggles that we are facing together affect you as much as us. With the rising number of blogs, we know you have a choice of which blogs to read and which blogs to follow, and we heartily thank you for placing your blog trust in us at Deconstructing the Decade.
Our recent failure to post in some time has no doubtfully caused you, our valued reader, concern. While the nature of this format is always in danger of certain kinds of silence, and internal circumstances helped to stoke that fire, we recognize how these errors have affected you. We want to take this opportunity to address this concern head on and ease any fears as deal with this difficult time in blogging history together.
We stand by our pledge to you to continue to give you thought provoking blog posts, as well as the opportunity to for you to post your own thoughts and rhetorical commentary.
Again, we apologize for any inconvenience we have personally caused you.
With highest regards and thanks,
Deconstructing the Decade
Alas, I don't have a PR firm--or a readership to warrant one--but I do want to own up to the fact that I haven't addressed this blog the way I had hoped and to re-pledge my intent to do so. Since this blog posting is the "re-birth" of this project, I thought an apropos symbol would be the famed bank bailout during the 2008 recession.
With that, I'll open it up to commentary and thoughts on this:
How did the 2008 recession, specifically the "bank bailout," affect the symbolic American Dream that generations have been working towards since the 1950s?
