Penelope Trunk says that blogs without topics are a waste of time — everyone involved’s time, in fact.
I would hate to think that I’m wasting your time, dear reader, so I’m open to suggestions — what do you think the general theme of my blog should be?
I won’t assume that you’re interested in reading about the inanities of my everyday life, and I can’t promise that I’ll have the energy to do the legwork involved in making this a great blog about Fort Worth in general. I’ve considered getting all nerdy here, but that market is kind of beaten to death. My voice would be lost in the echo chamber that is today’s tech blog world.
What do you think?
I’ve been thinking a lot about business and the economy lately. Like, macro-level stuff, not everyday operations thoughts. Also thinking about culture (American culture in particular) and how it affects the business climate and our economy.
Been having a lot of thoughts as well on technology — as you probably know, I’m a pretty big fan of technology. I’m tired of “technology for technology’s sake,” though. Planned obsolescence, stuff like that.
Mostly I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to use my degree in Geography (with minor in Environmental Science) once I’ve completed it.
More fleshed out thoughts on this once finals are over and I’ve had time to decompress.
My sister-in-Law is gettin’ hitched this weekend, my father-in-law and his wife are visiting from St. Croix, it’s been a hectic but fun week so far.
More content when I’ve recovered fully.
It looks like someone over at the Fort Worth Real Estate Blog has some issues with W&C. Methinks maybe they have issues with our commenters and maybe can’t tell the difference between editorial content and comments.
Anyway, here’s a comment that I wanted to leave (but couldn’t, due to their commenting system being hosed up) in response to their most recent post about something they didn’t like on W&C — something that I think they’re misinterpreting or reading into Steve’s post on injection wells.
Thanks for the link!
I’m sorry if you think that we at West and Clear are ungrateful for any kind of commercial investment in Fort Worth. I can assure you that exactly the opposite is true — we want Fort Worth to succeed and grow, but we want it to be smart and reasoned growth, taking into account more than just the financial benefits.
I’m not interested in rebutting your comments point by point, except to say this:
If you only look at Barnett Shale activity from the economic perspective, then yes, it has certainly been a good thing in the short term. But the true leaders in this City should be looking at the LONG term and how ALL of the drilling activities will affect things. It’s unacceptable to just push risks off onto future generations so that we (by “we” I mean a small number of people, myself included) can make a few bucks today. What happens when all those wells are drilled and the thousands of jobs are gone, off to another “play”? The same thing that happened to places like Ranger and countless other towns in West and central Texas that prospered during the oil boom in the early 20th Century, albeit on a smaller scale. The Barnett Shale may be tiding us over during the greater economic downturn, but is it preparing us for the coming rebound? I don’t think so.
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