Like most of America, I am sure you have spent the past few weeks wondering "why has The Generation Project's blog been updated so infrequently as of late?" Well, dear readers, we here at The Generation Project have been experimenting with postmodern blogging. Simply put, we felt that traditional, rigid categories of blogs--where a "writer" produces "content" and a "reader" passively "reads it" and then clicks back over to watch "Susan Boyle" on YouTube--illegitimately permits the "authors" to construct meaning and deprives the "reader" of their constructive capabilities.1 So we decided to slow down the writing for a little bit in an effort to let you, the reader, construct a multiplicity of meanings from our previous posts. But then our web analytics showed us that for, whatever reason, you readers were not taking advantage of your liberation or seizing the opportunity to construct meaning, so we said, "screw it," and now we're going to be back to writing regularly. OK, here's the real scoop: we've fallen a little bit behind on the blogging front because we've been really busy here at The Generation Project. First and foremost, we've been working hard getting things ready for the launch of the community section of our website next week. Over the past few weeks, we've been working with our amazing web design company, 365 Interactive Design, to put the finishing touches on a fully-functional, enterprise-level donor application and custom social networking platform that will allow donors to connect directly with students and educators. The site looks great, and we look forward to unveiling it for all of you in the near future. Importantly, 365 has built our community platform so that it simultaneously serves our organization's present needs and can be built upon in the future.
Second, The Generation Project team has been in Washington, DC, laying the groundwork for both our launch in this region and for our nationwide launch tour. We hope to have some exciting news to share on the launch tour front later this week, so stay tuned.
Finally, we've been continuing our charitable work through our pilot programs in New York and Detroit. Today, we completed implementation of the final gift in our pilot program--a donation of $500 worth of athletic equipment at Duke Ellington Conservatory in Detroit--and we will have pictures and stories to share shortly.
The next few weeks promise to be very exciting at The Generation Project, but we do promise to get back to blogging more regularly. After all, with no new Susan Boyle videos forthcoming for awhile, you need something to do with your time.
1. For you postmodernists out there, I apologize for the horrible caricature of your philosophical movement. My only excuse is that I, like most Americans, am woefully undereducated in the nuances of postmodernism. The solution, of course, lies in public education, and I encourage you to pledge a gift through The Generation Projectthat will help American public school students better understand postmodernism.