Posted in Blogs, Communication, Internet, Web on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across Seth’s post Drop the Dot? and mused a bit on the suggestion the post begins with which came from someone who had written to him. The suggestion was, “… that [dot] com is superfluous, just as www is.”
I agreed with Seth’s response, which was:
The suffix is useful, and we’ll have it […]
Posted in Blogs, Technology, Wordpress on May 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
I updated all my blogs to Wordpress 2.2 and now they all have character issues, such as posts that use apostrophes as in it’s.
And I’m definitely not the guy to figure out why and how to fix it.
Update:
It appears to only affect previous posts, like the one just below this, not new ones. Hmm.
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Posted in Blogs, Internet, People, Social networks, Technology, User experience, Web, Web 2.0 on May 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Social networks are like lawns with dandelion problems. They’re very nice, and hopefully well-maintained - but those weeds!
I’ve joined quite a few now, primarily out of curiosity. The value is clear, at least to me, in the better ones. Being connected is a good thing, and finding new people with similar interests, hobbies, careers and […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Business, Career, Reading, Work on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a Jim Cuddy song (Pull Me Through) where the lyrics go something like, “There are letters left unopened here, there never is the time; there are messages I should return …”
Well, I can certainly relate to that these days. There are emails I need to reply to and blog posts I should write […]
Posted in Blogs, Business, Creativity, Web, Writing on April 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve visited Hugh MacLeod’s blog gapingvoid. I’ve been off in other directions recently. But I was back again today and it confirmed my feeling that it’s one of the best blogs on the web, especially from the point of view of business, marketing, creativity and so on.
And on the subject […]
Posted in Blogs, Communication, Internet, People, Web on April 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been scooting across the Web trying to parse the recent kerfuffle regarding conduct on blogs (which, as one comment on one blog mentioned, is not restricted to blogs but the Web generally).
It has led to a proposed Blogger’s Code of Conduct, suggested by Tim O’Reilly. From what I’ve seen of comments and posts scattered […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Education, Movies, Reading, Technology, Web, Work on April 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Good grief. It’s already April. Where’ve I been?
Well, as the photo on the right suggests, I’ve been feeding squirrels. (Not really, actually. But a friend put the corn out in the backyard to see what the squirrels would do. Being logical creatures, they ate it.)
I’ve been up to several things: work, education, new house and […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Web, Web Writing, Work on March 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The easiest thing in the world to be is a critic. Being a good critic? Now that’s hard.
As the Web has shown, especially blogs, most of us are critics. We’ve got a lot of beefs and the Web allows us to air them, though not always to a huge audience. (It is potentially huge – […]
Posted in Blogs, Screenwriting, Writing on March 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I want to write a script for a video. The quandary? What to write when you have nothing to write. No ideas. Nada. El zippo. The great big gaping void.
On the upside, it leaves it pretty wide open. I can write whatever I want. Mind you, it’s for a video so someone would have to […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Marketing, Technology, Web, Web 2.0, Work, Writers, Writing on February 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
You know, much as I enjoy Seth’s blog, sometimes I hate it – especially when he ends a post by asking a question that makes me squirm.
His post Great writing, unfiltered is essentially about how technology, the Internet, Web 2.0 – whatever you want to call it – has changed marketing and, specifically, writing. Actually, […]
