The infamous Xopl dot com.

increasingly indurate

<< Jan 13, 2005 @ 18:37 >>

Man, they keep guilting me at MPR by introducing me to new people and saying, "He's a great addition to our team. We're so glad to have Xopl."

Anyway, I'm finally getting around to posting what happened at work the other day. Enjoy the following emails:

From: Rebecca
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:42 AM
To: New Media
Subject: MPR on list of "blogophobic" companies

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/09/companies_that_have_.html

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From: BC
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:47 AM
To: Rebecca; New Media
Subject: RE: MPR on list of "blogophobic" companies

I've been here for 13 years and nobody has ever been fired from MPR for "blogging," as far as I know.

But there's always a first time.

BC

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From: Xopl
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:14 AM
To: BC; Rebecca; New Media
Subject: RE: MPR on list of "blogophobic" companies

Doing the math, I don't know if you can count your first 2 years. I don't think a whole lot of people were blogging on the dubya-dubya-dubya in 1993.

I love it when companies post jobs that require like "6+ years xyz web experience, 4+ years in a web position with xyz requirement, at least 2 years doing blah on the web" and you add it up and it comes out to be like 1987. I have actually seen this.

Xopl

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From: BC
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:33 AM
To: Xopl; Rebecca; New Media
Subject: RE: MPR on list of "blogophobic" companies

As a genius in new media pointed out. Blogs used to be called Web pages.

It's just a medium. It's not the content.

BC

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At this point I looked up BC to find out he was "the longest-serving editor in the history of MPR, having joined the company in 1992".
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From: Xopl
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:38 AM
To: BC; Rebecca; New Media
Subject: RE: MPR on list of "blogophobic" companies

I agree with BC. That person, who I don't know and certainly isn't me, over in new media is a genius. Quite handsome I'd add.

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That was the end of the thread. hehe