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 →
Bloggers work alone. Oh, I know, there are group blogs. And probably there are some bloggers who show their posts to spouses or friends before clicking on “publish.” But my guess is that most spouses get worn out with that … Continue reading →
…and he says “let my people go.” Right around the time of the build-up to the Iraqi war, the first Iraqi blog came into being, Salam Pak’s, now defunct. It was fascinating to read an actual Iraqi’s words, emanating almost … Continue reading →
When I signed up for the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem, I did it for the laughs. Likening the forms of life in the blogosphere to the Linnaean classification system and the Great Chain of Being (both which I had to … Continue reading →