When Can We Declare a Blog Dead?
24 May 2008 6:14am GMT My RSS subscriptions are littered with blogs caught in the ether between life and death. Blogs that I loved and read religiously, and keep in my feed list in the hopes that they may one day wake up from the coma. Sometimes I'm rewarded: Greg Djerejian just made his first post in over four months, though it was mostly to announce that he's not dead.
Wordpress Theme Preview: Specimen
15 Apr 2008 5:41am GMT
Advertising Offer from ZTMC, Inc: Rejected
12 Apr 2008 7:22am GMT I recently received an e-mail from a company called ZTMC, Inc., asking if I was accepting advertising on this site. I am, and thus I began corresponding with one of their marketing managers. They wanted me to place four text links on every page of my site. These ads would rotate and I would be paid each month I displayed the ads. I ultimately rejected their offer and here's why.
Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?
6 Apr 2008 9:04pm GMT They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. Wow. Digital-era sweatshop....
Hello, Wordpress 2.5!
30 Mar 2008 11:18pm GMT The first thing I noticed when I sat down to write this post was that the post slug box has been replaced by this new edit permalink function below the post title: I like this a lot because I'm obsessive about my post slugs, but I always forgot to change the default slug when the box was in the sidebar. Now it's in a much more accessible location.