The Sunday Talk: R.I.P.

It is with great sadness that I formally proclaim The Sunday Talk to be dead. Sadly, in the middle of last year I realised that I just didn’t have the time, patience or motivation to regularly blog in long-form. While I did enjoy it most of the time, I was finding it to be quite the chore the longer time went on.

So I gave it away 6 months ago, and honestly, I’ve not really looked back.

So while this blog might be dead, I am leaving it up for posterity’s sake. Not sure how long the posts will stay up here for - I’ve just renewed the blog and domain name for a further 12 months, I guess in a way to just put off making some sort of final decision. In the meantime, you are welcome to go back over the 18 months worth of writing that is here. Some of it is drivel, some of it is insightful (not much), but most of it is just my random thoughts on the events of the day.

I am still active on the Interwebs, however - you can find an aggregation of my outpourings in various forms at my new personal “web site” (such as it is), by clicking here.

Thanks for the page views - I hope everyone has an awesome 2012. See you around the Web.

The Sunday Talk gets a new look!

Howdy, all! I hope you’ve been enjoying the recent mid-year resurgence of The Sunday Talk, as I slowly get back on top of my blog postings. Been able to finally finish about 2 dozen articles from the last 2 months that I partially started, but sadly due to work commitments was never able to get around to finishing. While some of them are a little raw, I hope you’ve been enjoying my commentary on all things media and technology! Please feel free to sound out in the comments section on any article, whether you agree or disagree with anything I’ve said (or notice some sort of factual error, corrections of which are always appreciated!).

Something I enjoy doing with this blog is re-evaluating the look & feel, and indeed the content approach, every 6 months. While I have no immediate plans to change the content focus of the blog (it’ll basically match what I outlined back in January), I did feel it was time to make some visual changes to the blog, with the choice of a brand new theme to power all of the pages on the site. Gone is the clean white & cream look, and in is a much starker orange / black / white appearance. I think the new look is really quite nice, and I hope that you do too. As per my above statement, please feel free to sound out in the Comments section of this post with your thoughts if you feel that way inclined!

Anyway, here’s to another 6 months of what I hope is interesting and engaging content for The Sunday Talk - and Happy 1st Birthday to The Blog That Was Formally A Weekly Podcast!! Sip sip!

Welcome to 2011!!

Happy New Year, everyone!! Welcome to the future - well, the year after 2010 that is. The new year has finally arrived, with all of the promise of a fresh start at life, with new challenges and opportunities to face us. With the arrival of 2011 comes a chance to make some changes to The Sunday Talk, the most obvious of which is the new template I’m using here. I’ve always liked the idea of annually refreshing web sites I run with brand new looks, and TST is no exception. Gone is the Sunday morning paper look, and in is a very stark and clean look. In addition to this obvious visual change, I’m making several changes to the underlying nature of the blog, and more specifically its content - most of which I want to outline in this post. So, without future hesitation, here’s the main changes coming to The Sunday Talk in 2011:

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Welcome to my blog!

Hello, world! Decided that the time was right to find a new way in this world to discuss the views that are important to me. Namely the latest television shows, what's happening in the news, and of course my all-time favourite, technology. So if you have an interest in any of those areas, this blog might be of interest to you. If not, well, good luck in surfing the rest of the Internet!

The aim here is to try and make at least 2-3 postings each week, depending on how fast the news cycle is occurring. I have decided to ignore options such as Facebook (in particular) and Twitter (for now), simply because I want to get the core content section of this site up and running - and that requires more than 140 characters per post. ;)

If you are wondering how this all came about, well, about 12-18 months this was the home of a small podcast, of which this blog has inherited the title from. It ran for about 30 episodes before folding, simply because the time involved in producing a podcast was not something I generally had available.

But I still wanted a platform from which to get my views on the world out to (yeah, because I am so important!). I tried Facebook, but found their privacy issues to be quite a drawback. So I've found myself on Square Space, thanks to the constant plugs from Leo Laporte on his glorious TWiT network!

So, anyway, welcome to the brand new Sunday Talk. There's not much content on here right now. Hopefully more soon. As I think of more things to write about. And get the layout and design of the blog sorted. So check back often! I will definitely make it worth your while!

Welcome aboard!