BurningbirdI had promised to return and finish the State of Geek series, but I haven’t been in much of a mood for it. I have such mixed feelings about ‘geek’ lately. I am once a geek, but I am also not a geek — one foot in, one foot out. The good news about the […]
Last week my cheek started swelling, and sure enough, I have an abcsessed tooth. I went to the dentist on Friday and got some antibiotics, as well as a referral to the specialist. Luckily I have dental as well as medical insurance. An embarrassment of riches. Class in this country used to be based on […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I initiated an email discussion today that ended up focused on women and weblogging. Without going into particulars, I challenged the members of the group to find their G Quotient, or Gender Quotient: For the last one hundred posts, count the number of times you linked to a male weblogger, […]
Today was a quiet day, more mist than rain, more grey than stormy. I set out for the bird sanctuary in the Northwest corner of the state, but hadn’t gone more than an hour when I realized that I had forgotten my wallet. With my driver’s license. I carefully turned around, and just as carefully […]
Congratulations to Sheila Lennon who will be on the Flogging the Blogs: Debating Best Practices panel at the ONA conference in Chicago. She joins some well known luminaries such as Andrew Sullivan, Tom Regan, Jeff Jarvis, and Esther Dyson as they take apart publications and their online presence. Sheila has never been in Chicago before and is […]