hot air powers the point >>––> by Brent Logan
With 2010 nearly here, it’s time to resolve to behave better on Twitter, Facebook, my blog, and whatever other social media gets invented this coming year.
Ask, don’t tell. I’ll try to remember that I don’t know everything and act accordingly. I might even learn something.
Leave more comments. Bloggers put a lot of effort into their [...]
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. —Plato
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Hat tip: Pickles.
Graphic credit: spacedustdesign.
Yesterday, I started Impolite Company to write about political issues. This and the next few posts will document the decisions I made and the steps I took in creating Impolite Company.
First on the list is the name: Impolite Company. I wasn’t looking for anonymity. I just needed another blog to segregate my political posts from [...]
My political blog, Impolite Company, is open for business. There’s not much there yet, but that soon will change.
It’s been a while since I started a new WordPress blog. There’s a big difference between starting a basic blog and one that has those features and capabilities I consider necessary. Domain names, styles, comments, and feeds, [...]
Inspired by Rafe Needleman’s content overload, I graphed my current Internet content plumbing with an eye to simplifying and improving it.
I have two blogs: blogan.net and Exerslog; their content goes to FriendFeed, as do the comments I write on blogan (they are filtered from the entire comments feed by a Yahoo pipe). I don’t regularly [...]
There’s one question you need to ask yourself before you start blogging:
Do I want to blog?
That’s it. End of story.
Forget about some narrowly-focused questionnaire that makes blogging sound hard or serious or demanding.
Do I want to blog?
Suppose the next time you’re in a bookstore you see a journal. You think to yourself, “Journaling might [...]
I check my inbox and found this:
Dear journal. From the the time we left the house to now, a lot has happened. We left our house at 2:18. Then we drove over to the fredmeyer parking lot and stopes at Panda Express. There I got a pandabowl with rice and orange chicken. After that we [...]
CNN fires a blogger. Just added to my RSS feed.
I wrote a new post at Exerslog. I had to. Google Reader was taunting me that it was inactive. No promises for the future, though.
I used to use WordPress’ built-in blogroll capabilities. No more — it was too much work. My blogroll now updates automatically to always show the feeds I’m reading. Here’s how you can do it, too:
Set up Google Reader as your RSS reader. I suspect other online readers would also work, but I know Google’s does.
Create [...]
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