I've spent some of the weekend working on a speech about blogging for my communications class. Turns out it's about 2 minutes too long, so I have some editing to do. Shouldn't be much trouble. The prof has this silly thing where we are supposed to go in tomorrow and rehearse 3 minutes of a 5.5 minute speech and get feedback. Why not just make us do the whole thing? I also have to make powerpoint slides to accompany the speech. I have almost no experience with powerpoint, so I made some very simple black and white slides. I'm not really a fan of the powerpoint concept, because I feel that most people spend so much time making them pretty that they just aren't very informative. I'd like to change that, but I had a hard enough time figuring out how to make slides in the first place. One of my classmates is a self-professed master, so I'm hoping she'll agree to meet me at Starbucks sometime this week and help me out with the aesthetics, and maybe with some of the moving stuff. I may not like powerpoint, but it seems to be the thing to do in b-school, so I guess I'll be learning as much as I can. Should be an expert within a few months. I'll be so proud!!!

The speech itself covers a range of blogging-related topics. I start out with Trent Lott and Dan Rather, and why you should read blogs, move on to Glenn Reynolds and why you should write your own blog, and then on to how to start a blog. Finally I conclude with the epic of Evan Williams, which may not be perfectly accurate, but it's close enough and gets my point across (the point being that he got rich through bloggin). It's accurate as far as I remember, and since it's an unsourced anecdote, it's all good.