Just wanted to point out that I’m blogging this from the very room in the very place where Jimmy Carter started his run for the Presidency. Or the gubernatoriality. I forget. Anyway, I’m blogging here and you’re not. [UPDATE: All you ATL bloggers suck donkey balls! I should have checked the RSVPs, granted, but you’d […]
WordPress maven Lorelle gives some detailed and good advice. The gist? Blogging isn’t for everyone, and everyone doesn’t need to blog.
Links from folks at The Daily Scribe this week: Pop Occulture got BoingBoinged! Cleave points us to 21 tips to get a new blog off and running. Pernell points out a redemptive history of Halloween. Boy in the Bands is trying to put together some free templates for church offices to use. Send him your […]
Tom Coates groks the ethics of freebies, blog ads, and post retractions. Chris Garrett tells of a blog posse that meted out internet justice to a Flickr photo thief.
Who are we bloggers accountable to? I imagine two families of accountability models when it comes to blogs. Professional models: Journalism vs. tabloid gossip. Academia vs. plagiarism. Footnotes, cited sources, and the lack thereof. Attribution and cheating. Personal models: Named vs. pen named. “In relationship” vs. hyper-individualist. “This is really me” vs. “I’m just playing […]
Gentle readers, Sometime earlier this month My Irony reached its third (!) birthday. And last night I got an itch to make some radical changes, including no less than ditching makingchutney.com altogether. And I need to know what you think. What am I thinking about? I’m thinking, perhaps, about moving everything over to a new […]