Monday, May 7, 2007
I just went through and took a bunch of abandoned blogs off of my blogroll. Thanks for the suggestion, Molly.
Also added a few folks, and made some changes.
Joe's Coffee Blog, by Joe Cappucino, the roaster at Blue Star Cafe in Winooski.
Stan Cynedom, by Emily Stoneking. The title is Emily's last name in Old English. It's a joke. It would probably be a more effective joke if I knew how to make the necessary accents appear in the title, but I don't know how to do that. Sorry, Emily.
Secret Movie Blog: It's not much of a secret, if you ask me. This is the blog for Tuesday's Secret Movie Night at STK Studio on North Street in Burlington.
And Ghost of Midnight was the Front Porch Forum blog. Michael Wood-Lewis just changed the name.
Anybody else I should add while I'm at it?
Saturday, May 5, 2007
I just realized that I suck at blogging. Or at least, I have sucked at it since I took this online editor job in January. I just don't have as much time to post here as I used to. And I don't get out as much. A few months ago, I posted this picture of my new desk in the red room at Seven Days, where the editors sit. That's all I see anymore. My computer screen. The red wall. The apartments across the street.
There's not much to say about our little dead-end block of South Champlain Street. No siree.
I came to this realization about how I suck at blogging because I just read Bill Simmon's post about the They Might Be Giants show last night. And then Bill linked to his wife Emily Stoneking's post about the show.
Ok, granted, they are uber-geeks. But they put me to shame shame shame!
I'm spending all this time training new bloggers right now — Seven Days just launched three new blogs in the last couple weeks, Omnivore, Yo, Hackie! and the Jazz Mafia blog. So I'm talking about blogs all the time. Maybe that's the trouble. Maybe if I weren't talking to other people about blogs all the time, I'd want to spend more time on my own?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Wired has the story:
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs orsending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the contentwith a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issuedApril 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activitiessince the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of militaryblogs, observers say.
Are they going to crack down on YouTubes, too?