An e-mail came in this morning from one of my RSS subscribers. Hi Tom, I’ve been subscribed to your “Prints the chaff” RSS feed for a couple of weeks, and enjoy your thoughts. I was particularly interested in your recent…
Category: Blogging
Talking news
Last week Jeff Jarvis must’ve said it a half-dozen times: News is a conversation. The past couple days I’ve been wondering what that means. As I noted yesterday, news has been one-way from the get-go: we report, you consume. The…
Bringing blogs and newspapers together
Say you work at a newspaper whose circulation is larger than 300,000 … big enough that it needs to cover major regional stories and localize national ones. A paper this size is just big enough that it needs to devote…
When Mom sees your blog
This tidbit from the Onion is supposed to be, you know, satire. Thanks to Jen for pointing it out. In an e-mail sent to Widmar Monday, Lillian reported in large purple letters that she was “VERY EXCITED :)!!!” to find…
Danger: The Internet is a mind-sucking swamp
Yesterday I noticed this moderately funny Tom Tomorrow cartoon mocking bloggers who support the war in Iraq who face no threat more daunting than an attack of carpal tunnel syndrome. His point (gratingly obvious): If you’re so goddam brave, why…
Infomaniac
Is back from vacation. She posted a very fun link to a video of cat antics. (Note: the link is a WMV file which means you’ll have no trouble opening it in Windows but you Mac users may have to…
Blogging election night
The paper in Oswego used a blog to keep folks apprised of the vote counts as they were tallied. (Link via the Weblog Blog).
Dublin: Media mecca
After I caught the bug for RSS syndication of my site, I found this cool RSS site called LocalFeeds that allows you to track down all the sites within a specific geographic area. This site has accidentally made a New…
Maud’s blog hailed …
… as one of the New York notables. Maud Newton, maudnewton.com For those exhausted by most media-centric blogs? obsession with either glossy stock or newsprint, there?s Maud Newton, a Brooklyn-based fiction writer whose eponymous blog obsesses over books. Last week,…
Link payback
Mike Lawson is quitting his day job to be a fulltime freelance newsie. He links to me so I’m returning the fave, and pointing to this swell quote on his blog: Did you hear that the Republican National Committee is…