Reuters: A successful blog "kind of opens the kimono and from a brand point of view lets people know who you are," says Rob Frankel, a Los Angeles-based branding consultant who has advised clients ranging from Re/Max to Honda Motorcycles and Sea World. A promise to my handful of readers: at no point will I ever — ever — appear … Read More
The “New” List Of Blogger Cliches
From here: The "New" List of Tired Old Clichés: In Which I: In which I suggest that the "in which I" construction has had it’s 15 minutes. Really. In which it was enough. In which it has been beaten to death. In which it is so tiresome, even mocking it is annoying. I must stop this breathless tirade, however, and … Read More
Merry Xmas, Y’all
Headin off in a few hours to New Hampshire. Gone for a week. Won’t probably blog much. It’s Xmas. I was going to do this really awesome thing where you could track my whereabouts in realtime online as I drive through Virginia, up to Albany, and across Vermont. Would have shown my EXACT location on a Google map, my altitude, … Read More
Typepad Update
Sporadic blogging. Something up with Typepad. Bear with me while they fix the technical difficulties… UPDATE: Problems fixed. For the record, it wasn’t Typepad. It was some coding I did this weekend for the site. Grrrrrr….. UPDATE NO. 2: Hmmmm. It’s now listing all my posts for the past several months on the lefthand column….
Additions To Webcam
I’ve had three webcams to the right hand "Live Webcams" column. (1) Lindsey Lights, a live shot of the well-known house in Ontario Canada with an incredible light display set to music (you’re better off, however, watching the live video stream when it is up and running) Here’s a Youtube of last year’s display: (2) Some webcam in Lewisville, pretty … Read More
Evaluation Time
HillaryClinton.com: The Volokh Conspiracy (blog of prominent law school professors): CNN: Emily Mark’s blog: The New York Times political blog (The Caucus) The White House website: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group (affiliated with the Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory) website: This blog: Dammit!
Light Blogging For A Few Days
Okay, well. It’s the day before Thanksgiving and everyone is gearing up to go to Grandma’s house, or to get up at zero o’clock so you can drag giant Shrek balloons down Manhattan, or to do things that will stay in Vegas, or to spend a few days of much needed down time before tech week (that’s me), or to … Read More
Santa Claus’s Blog
He’s no longer during monthly posts in the "off-season". Bookmark it. (And that’s his personal blog. The blog of the corporate parent can be found here.)
The Golden Wingnut Award
Over at The Washington Monthly, A-list blogger Kevin Drum has been holding tallying the votes for the Golden Wingnut Award, an award he just made up for the wingnuttiest blog post ever. The winner by a substantial margin was John Hinderaker of The Corner for his July 28, 2005 masterpiece containing these words of unforgettable wingnuttery: It must be very … Read More
Moving To The Dark Side
John Cole of the popular conservative site, Balloon Juice, has been getting increasingly annoyed with his party for the past few years. And now he’s done it: he went and registered as a Democrat. A bit of an embarrassment is that Balloon Juice was nominated as one the finalists for Best Conservative Blog of 2007. Cole is not phased — … Read More
Wear Me!
Yea, that’s right. I’m merchandizing. No, I don’t profit from this…. I’m just screwing around (but, yes, you can buy this stuff).
The U.S. Government Blog
That’s right. The United States Government has a blog, because that’s what all the kids are into these days, and the U.S. Government is nothing if not "hip". It’s been up for a month now. It’s called "Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog". I’m not lying. Look at the url. It’s a dot-gov. Not a dot-com. Not a dot-net. A … Read More