Last night I got an e-mail from Frank Arrigo which was asking whether I would be interested in being the guest editor for TechTalkBlogs for the next little while. Naturally I said NO and this post is a figment of your imagination.

Frank let the cat out of the bag on his blog last night with another set of clues about who was going to take the torch from "the students" - although I like to refer to them as padiwan learners:

The guys did a great job, but the way that Frank keeps score scares me a little bit. Of course for me its going to be a completely different story given that I am completely world famous and stuff.

As a service to all future editors I put here the heavily edited transcript of the negotiation for the role.

Frank: Mitch, you cool dude you, I normally wouldn't ask this but I really NEED you to edit TechTalkBlogs.

Mitch: Frank, I'm happy to accept the role but what's in it for me?

Frank: What are you after?

Mitch: I want a spa bath full of jellybeans in my trailer - blue ones (thats my favorite colour).

Frank: But Mitch, you don't get a trailer for this, you are just going to be blogging.

Mitch:Well in that case I want to a hammer and twelve iPods shipped to me per day.

Frank: What is the hammer for?

Mitch: You are asking the wrong question, you should be asking what the iPods are for.

Frank: Deal, here is the password.

Update: Just in case its not obvious, the conversation above never took place, except in my deranged imagination.

It went something like that, but I am a little bit hazy on the details. Of course, every guest editor has a theme and I'll be talking about mine over the next couple of posts, but before that I thought that I would introduce myself.

My name is Mitch Denny, I've been a blogger for just under three years and my address is http://notgartner.com. Like a lot of the guest editors before me I am an MVP, based in Canberra, and I also happen to work for Readify. Right now I am sitting at gate two of the Qantas terminal at Melbourne Airport about to fly home for the rest of the week.