Archive for January, 2012
As you’ve probably noticed, this is a WordPress blog. (I really hope you’ve noticed that this is a WordPress blog. It’s very hard to miss.) As such, the content is provided by yours truly, but the hosting and in fact the site itself all belongs to WordPress. They own it; I borrow it and use [ READ MORE ]
I’m bad at asking for favors. Always have been. I tend to hedge and hold off until the last minute even on things I know I can’t do alone. But while there’s a nice self-sufficient sort of ethos in there somewhere, it turns out not to be the best business strategy. This one’s counter-intuitive for [ READ MORE ]
I spent at least five minutes trying to decide whether I liked “tale of two twitters” or ‘tale of two twittees” better, because that’s just the sort of writer I am (terrible). But that choice to go with a cutsey title rather than something very literal and keyword-loaded like “Managing Your Twitter Feed When You [ READ MORE ]
If things have been quiet around here lately (they have in my head, but I can never tell how obvious it is to readers) it’s because life sort of shifted into overdrive on me this week. I applied for, got, and started a job at the state capitol (which is very exciting), and at the [ READ MORE ]
Every once in a while in the course of my “research” for MA101 (research for MA101 consists of flipping through oddball newsfeeds and looking to see if anyone’s done anything really dumb lately) I find an op-ed or a blog or some other personal missive loaded down with enough categories and categorizations to make Carl [ READ MORE ]
Hello, Geoffrey is starting a new job at the capitol today but he’ll be back this evening. In the mean time you are stuck with me. Geoffrey writes all sorts of interesting things like blog posts, fashion advice, novels, and now political letters and press releases (at least that’s what I think he’s doing up there). I [ READ MORE ]
One of the joys of managing your own blog is that from time to time you can use it to promote totally unrelated things because you just thought they were cool. It’s like a Facebook status update with more authority behind it. (Ha! I am, of course, only kidding. Most of my Facebook updates are [ READ MORE ]
I almost named this post “The Elemental Table of Periodicals,” but then I decided that idea was way cooler than a blog post deserved. Some day I will make a full interactive table, scaled (as the periodic table of elements is, kinda) from the least reactive to the most. Associated Press wire service on the [ READ MORE ]
Either that title grabbed your attention or you’re not familiar with www.Cracked.com, a giant in the highly-technical “LOLS” sector of web publishing. Full disclosure: they’ve run a few of my pieces, so I know exactly what kind of idiots are writing over there. But imagine my surprise when I turned to the funnies section of [ READ MORE ]
If this is really the first site you’ve checked today that was “blacked out” to protest SOPA you’ve got me way too high up on your list of priorities. Click the ribbon in the top-right corner to learn more about why MA101 (and many, many other, vastly more important sites) are shut down today. Or, [ READ MORE ]
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