So the Blogathon is back on 25 July. I’ll be doing my usual panoply of comic book reviews (backed up over two years — yikes!). Biggest decision I have to make is who I’m going to do it on behalf of. Past worthy causes — Episcopal Relief & Development, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund — are all worthy causes, but I haven’t decided amongst them, or the other many, many worthies out there. Pondering (and willing to take suggestions).
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My first thought was, “Hey, I should actually do that this year!” I mean, I’ve been blogging for almost 7 years now, I ought to be able to manage a 24-hour stint.
Then I realized it was during Comic-Con International.
Then I realized it was Saturday of Comic-Con.
On the plus side, I should be able to find material to write about, and my phone should make it possible to post every 30 minutes. And who knows, I may be Twittering that often anyway. On the downside, I’m already going to be exhausted by Saturday.
Huh. Interesting … I hadn’t thought of the (properly-configured blog-based) Twitter angle to the Blogathon.
A bit of a cheat (140 characters per hour? 2.1 characters per minute?), but an interesting way to do it. 🙂
Bad timing with SDCC. Just as well that I am (yet again) not going this year (sorry, Mary).
Yeah, one Twitter post per entry would be a bit of a cheat. I was mainly thinking in terms of posting frequency – it might not be as much of a stretch as it seems at first glance to try to do a blogathon during an event. But I’d still want to be doing stuff at the con, and I’d probably have to spend too much time writing to really appreciate what I was doing and seeing.
(And then there’s the whole staying up until 6am and then going to the last day of the con, but I get the impression a lot of people do that anyway with parties.)
Ah, well. Maybe next year, if the timing works better.
Actually, live-tweeting the Con would be cool (if you could force hourly posts to your blog). I agree the biggest issue would be the “later that night …” items.