Weblogs

  • Tidbits

    It’s a snowy, cold day here in NYC. I barely made it back from a business trip to Rochester yesterday, so I’m taking advantage of the snow day and working from home this morning. Sometimes, there’s nothing better than working in your pajamas. While I’m waiting for the coffee to kick in, I thought I’d

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  • Dorks-R-Us

    So I took a big step last night. It was a huge leap, but I decided I was ready for it. I bought blogcards. These are like my alternate business card — to give to folks in order to publicize my blog. Before I clicked on the “purchase” button, I realized that what I really

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  • Dork Protocol

    I have a friend who only recently got email. He doesn’t own a computer, but checks his email at his gym, where they have terminals for free internet access. He sent me an email last night that was ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. I called him to tell him that, according to email protocol, this was

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  • I’m Down with O.P.B.*

    * Other People’s Blogs There’s something inherently voyeuristic about weblogs. They offer the general public a chance to peer inside other peoples’ thoughts, feelings and lives. For example, a co-worker was telling me that she started reading Megnut, because the author was a classmate of hers from Tufts (go Jumbos!). Around the same time, she

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  • My So-Called Blog*

    Great article today on teen blogs in the New York Times Magazine. Like the author, I truly wonder how blogging would have fit into high school in the 80’s. Hard to imagine, huh? (* Clearly a tribute to My So-Called Life — AMAZING, yet stupidly cancelled show.)

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  • Welcome to My World

    It’s readership appreciation day! Perhaps there are, indeed, at least fourteen of you out there. Update — apparently Erika has started a roll call — feel free to join in! (now I’m curious . . .) Courtesy of Gapingvoid.com.

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  • Welcome to My World

    It’s readership appreciation day! Perhaps there are, indeed, at least fourteen of you out there. Update — apparently Erika has started a roll call — feel free to join in! (now I’m curious . . .) Courtesy of Gapingvoid.com.

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  • Search and Ye Shall Find

    One of the fun things I’ve learned about having a blog is that you can get all kinds of stats about how people get to your site. One way is through various searches — google, yahoo, etc. — and not just in the U.S., either. People are finding out about me in Australia, France, Canada,

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  • Search and Ye Shall Find

    One of the fun things I’ve learned about having a blog is that you can get all kinds of stats about how people get to your site. One way is through various searches — google, yahoo, etc. — and not just in the U.S., either. People are finding out about me in Australia, France, Canada,

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  • Epilogue

    You may be wondering, as I was, what my parents’ reaction to my weblog would be. (You may not — in which case you should probably skip this post entirely.) It was very — underwhelming. I’m not sure it was because a) they didn’t really take the time to read it; b) they don’t really

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