The Post-Gazette has a nice feature today on blogging in Pittsburgh. They explain blogging pretty well. They also mention several interesting local sites, although they fail to provide links to any of them. Fortunately, the article mentions Tube City Online (UPDATE: OK, so TCO isn’t mentioned after all … I’m not sure how I found …
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How to, and why
I’d been thinking of creating a section for Closkey.com about how and why to create a weblog. It turns out that I don’t need to, as the Guardian Online has already written one. Of particular interest are Rebecca Blood’s comment on what blogs are and are not, Neil McIntosh and Jane Perrone’s glossary of blogging …
The iPod Paradox
Izzy Grinspan in The Village Voice reflects on why a device that is most often used solo engenders feelings of community. I’m not ready to go swapping my little green buddy with anyone yet. I haven’t had the chance to use it enough, to fill it with all the right songs, to build a history …
Curiouser and curiouser
Exactly the result I would hope for: My Book Quiz Match is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which is one of my all-time favorite books. You’re Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! by Lewis Carroll After stumbling down the wrong turn in life, you’ve had your mind opened to a number of strange and curious things. As life …
Mine is on the FedEx truck on its way to my house right now!
Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday it has received 100,000 orders for its iPod mini digital music player, which goes on sale on Friday at Apple’s retail outlets, its online store and through resellers. I’ve been tracking the progress of mine, which I preordered the day they were announced. (The geekist thing I’ve done in …
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If you can’t post something nice, don’t post anything at all
Here’s an excellent, carefully thought and worded post on corporate blogging. I wasn’t sure at first what “corporate blogging” might be, but it turns out to be blogging from a company standpoint (as opposed to an individual’s standpoint). It’s what I’m recommending my web clients to consider … although so far all of them have …
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Gaming the system
A system error makes clear what everyone expected but couldn’t demonstrate: Writers and their friends anonymously give their own works high reviews on Amazon. “Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company’s Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United …