In an effort to help promote greater communication between members of the LTU writing staff, we’ve finally decided to move up from chiseling out messages in slabs of granite and passing them back and forth for correction. Now we carve our messages out in trees. Digital trees. Trees that are called “Google Docs.”

We now realize what an amazing application this is for coordinating groups of writers. With Google Docs, multiple people can work on the same script at the same time. Due to the increased collaboration that this offers, we’ve already started to see improvements in the quality and the overall level of humor in our script writing over the past few days. How did we ever get along without this feature?

What does this mean for you? Maybe nothing. But it does mean that you have some good shows to look forward to in the future. Episode #005 is in the works right now, and from the looks of the script, it’s going to be good. If you’re a podcaster working with a group of writers, if you need to access documents on the go, or if you’re just a nerd with nothing better to do, I can only highly recommend checking out Google Docs.

In the midst of my morning “task” of wasting time to browse through websites, I was reading the blog of my friend Joey Connelly, who produces the Geeks on Parade podcast. By the way, GOP (not the political party) is a good “geek” podcast that I recommend you take some time to try. Yes, this is a blatant advertisement. No, I make no apologies.

Anyway, Joey’s latest blog post brought to my attention the relaunch of the Ebert & Roeper website. And I must say, I am almost impressed at the change. On the new website, you can search for over 20 years of reviews from Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, and even Gene Siskel (whom I have preferred the most out of the three).

Why am I not quite impressed? After being forced to watch an advertisement prior to a show clip, the clip will not load more than about ten seconds, if I get even that far. Let’s hope that this problem is fixed soon, because I am getting tired of watching the same car commercial five times only to get no substantial video in the end.

If this problem ever fixes itself, though, go visit the website. I’d give it at least one thumb up, but that would be too clichéd. So, I give it three dried out banana chips out of five.