I’ve kept a running list of more head scratcher moments with WordPress. Returning to using WordPress daily after years away, I’m seeing these things with fresh eyes again. I’ll probably be adding more to this post over the next few weeks. The idea of a media library I remember using WordPress occasionally a few years ago, …
Category Archives: blogging
Ev’s assholishness is greatly exaggerated
There's been a bunch of stories lately about Ev Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter upon the occasion of him leaving Twitter to do his own thing. Some are outright calling him an asshole. This Business Insider story of Noah Glass and Twitter's early days has a whole speculative piece on how Ev might be …
Continue reading “Ev’s assholishness is greatly exaggerated”
What? Fortuitous is back?
Everything I've learned about casual podcasting: An exhaustive how-to guide on getting starting thinking about and recording, editing, and publishing your first podcast. via fortuito.us For the last few years, I've regretted letting my long essay/business tips blog Fortuitous go fallow, and I've been thinking of bringing it back many times whenever I feel the …
come break bread with us at the Old Timers Ball
SXSW is coming up and as it has gotten bigger, it has gotten harder to find friends, so Kevin Smokler, Kevin Newsum, and I thought it would be nice to throw an “Old Timers Ball” for ye olde school webloggers to meet, greet, and catch up with each other on the first Friday night. It’ll …
Continue reading “come break bread with us at the Old Timers Ball”
Quick thoughts on Pinboard
I've been a Delicious.com user since late 2003, back when it launched. I was happy when it was sold to Yahoo as it meant (what I thought would be) a secure future. Recently, Yahoo revealed that they would like to shutter/sell the site and a rush for alternatives pushed a lot of people towards Pinboard. …
Gawk Gawk Gawk
I have to admit that at some point in the last few months Gawker Media turned a corner and is doing consistently strong investigative journalism* across all their blogs, the likes of which the Huffington Post used to do before they went all sensationalistic tabloid entertainment bullshit on us. I used to write Gawker off …
Popular Culture Through the Lens of the Literary World
This is my new favorite blog.
Fewest days in the month = least commitment to sparkle motion
I'm going to try making a daily post to this site during the month of February. While Twitter has taught me to be fierce editor, I've spent so much personal time whittling down ideas to their essence that I never post anything more substantial anywhere else. The other day someone mentioned that I might be an …
Continue reading “Fewest days in the month = least commitment to sparkle motion”
Content sausage factories
This is new to me: seeing a friend's awesome (and creepy) halloween cooking idea (which is kind of shocking and disgusting looking even though it's good food inside) show up in content mills I hadn't previously heard of, like 2leep and odditycentral. The 2leep links show up at the tail end of posts at Inquisitr …
Softly relaunching
So a long, long time ago I decided to both teach myself to shoot photos better and document my quickly changing life by creating a photo blog back on October 10, 2003 with the grand vision of keeping it going for ten years. At the time, I was pretty busy with multiple projects, but …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 