I just spent several minutes of my life that I’ll never get back again cleaning up after the spambots. They come in clusters and apparently are only able to hit the top thread of the day (in a few minutes, … Continue reading →
[Note: I’ve posted an update to this article here.] Jay Rosen and Austin Bay have recently posted an interesting exchange of ideas about Bush and the press. You can find it here on Rosen’s blog, and here on Austin Bay’s … Continue reading →
I wrote two other posts today that are of what you might call the “light” variety–not about anything deeply emotional, or about politics or any earthshattering world events. Until yesterday I’d been doing “heavy” post after heavy post, and I … Continue reading →
Before I became a blogger, I had no idea how sitemeter or statcounter or any of the other traffic-counting devices worked. When I first installed my sitemeter, I was enthralled to see all the little things it could tell me … Continue reading →
A lot of people think George Orwell is special. I’m one of them. I first read Orwell’s books Animal Farm and 1984 when I was about twelve years old. The latter was good for many nightmares–I don’t recommend giving the … Continue reading →
I miss Steven Den Beste. No, I never met him; and yes, I know he’s not returning to political blogging (he still blogs on anime here). He’s very ill; and, what’s more, even if he weren’t, I don’t get the … Continue reading →
Blogging’s harder than it looks, writes history professor and author David Greenberg in today’s NY Times piece entitled “Blogging, as in slogging.” Well, I could have told him that, if he’d ever asked me. I found that out when I … Continue reading →
I’m here in New York, with the unbelievably lovely weather and the daffodils all in bloom. It feels like the tropics to me. Big celebration tonight for a major birthday of my brother–which one? I’ll never tell. But last night … Continue reading →
Mohammed of Iraq the Model, eloquent as always, wrote a post yesterday in honor of the second anniversary of the 9th of April–a day he calls the “Eid of Liberty”–when US troops streamed through Baghdad and the statue of Saddam … Continue reading →
According to my trusty sitemeter, already today I’ve gotten three–count em, three!–people coming to my blog as a result of Google searches for “Lebanese women cleavage flag.” Welcome! Isn’t the blogosphere wonderful? (For those who don’t know what I’m talking … Continue reading →
Because we can do these instead of these. Remember whiteout, typewriters, erasable bond? And even further back into antiquity, remember carbons? (I have to say even I don’t remember carbons too well, but I distinctly recall watching my mother type … Continue reading →
It seems to be a hot topic today: Jeff Jarvis and Roger Simon are both writing about Steven Levy’s charge that the blogosphere is a white male bastion of power. As that rara avis, a female blogger (although, in the … Continue reading →