the edmontonian presents “money”
Our love affair with local television continues. Episode two of the edmontonian presents aired on ShawTV last night, and “money” can now be found online and on iTunes.
We’re back with a new episode May 22!
There are still plenty of ways for you to be a part of the show. Check out our “helping” page for the edmontonian presents.
There goes my afternoon
Oh, Edmonton, you don’t even know…
We actually have a pile of stories and photos and submissions to post this week, which means I should be working on spell-checking and image re-sizing and whatever the heck it is I pretend to do when smarter people than me submit their fine work to the edmontonian.
But then I was pitched a pyramid scheme and the day went to hell.
The best part, the absolute best part, about the whole thing comes from my Googling as soon as they were out the door:
Ky. company to pay nearly $1M settlement in Mont.
I mean, the company you just told me was so great is giving back participants* close to one-million dollars.
Ugh.
Would I really give you hundreds of dollars, without even a web search? Do people do this? If they do, and I guess we know they do, should we simply teach more people how to Google things?
Now, I’ll tell you why I let them do their whole spiel. It’s the same reason I mess with telemarketers (Although getting rid of the landline really solved that problem.), I like to mess with them, I like to keep them on MY hook for as long as possible. It’s an effort, however small it may be, to keep them from actually finding people who will pay into this kind of crap.
I'm rich, biatch!
The other somewhat interesting item from today’s 30 or so minutes of fun was how much of the pitch, aside from boring details and weak explanations of the products I’d be selling and how it all really worked, was about money.
I had to make more money. Who wanted to work anyway? (Hey, I like money, but it’s not the only goal.)
Since I previously knew one of the pitchmen they should have known, coming to my place of work, that I actually have a job I quite like. A job that actually gives a little something back to the wider community.
What they didn’t know is that I’m also quite interested in journalism, community, and communication on the Internet, which doesn’t necessarily mean I’m just trying to land myself on a sunny beach somewhere.
So, in a totally weird way, they showed me that I was doing the right stuff. I had stumbled my way into a path that truly meant something to me, that I wasn’t all about money.
Oh, and they showed me that crazy get-rich quick schemes sound as flimsy in person as they do on the TV, or in “beware of this scam” news stories.
*participants are victims (and/or suckers)
We always appreciate your help
Hey there, Edmonton.
You might have noticed some new buttons on our sidebar, over there, to the right of these very words.
One is bright yellow and has a beautiful gold running shoe in it. That funky little ad takes you on the way to our PayPal donation page. Yes, we’re now openly soliciting you for money.
But it’s not actually for gold shoes. Yet.
It’s our attempt to start growing the edmontonian bigger and better. We love when we get stories and opinions and photos and videos from you, and we’d like to keep growing that relationship. We’d also love to get to the point where we could do this more of the time, and maybe even slide YOU a few bucks for helping.
So, when you’re dumping a fistful of quarters into newspaper boxes I hope you’ll think of us, and how we’re not even putting a definitive price tag on the cost of readership. We don’t think you have to pay $1 a day, or even a week. Heck, $10 a year from you could run this whole operation at tremendous new levels.
Though, if you like this idea, we’re going to have to think up great rewards for your financial contributions…perhaps giant clocks.
The other new button over there is a revamped link to our Cafe Press store. Oh yeah, we’ve got new stuff in there! Hilarious stuff.
The other ads and links are from various friends and if you want to check them out, we say you do it.
All in all, this is just one of many “thank you” letters we’ve written, to thank you for reading, for contributing, and for being a part of the Edmonton conversation.
Why didn't anyone tell me the Dawson Bridge was out? (Photo: Brittney Le Blanc)
Scrambled #yeg
Totally random and with nothing to do with this post (outside of name); I had scrambled eggs in my breakfast burrito this morning. It was delicious.
Now, here’s some weird stuff I’ve spotted around this fair city of ours. I like to call this scrambled #yeg to combine one of my favourite foods and Twitter’s Edmonton hashtag. Oh, and I’ve done this before.
I can only imagine the first day of school, and this is your first classroom.
There has to be upwards of $12 on that boat.
The lady is real-size, the door is not. What's up with that door?!
This is over in Old Strathcona's theatre district. I don't know why. But it's cool.
Insert pants joke here.
