It currently has two purposes: to post PR of member businesses and events, and to publish a weekly calendar of SBN events.  This calendar will be posted every Wednesday, with the first being posted this coming Wednesday, the 21st.  Members will receive an email in the next few days with instructions on how to submit articles, videos, and events.

Suggestions?  Questions?  Comments?  Leave 'em!  This is definitely a work-in-progress, and all thoughts are welcome.

• selbstmordrate studenten karlsruhe
• tibetische schlampe
• i don't know what my thesis is about

:-)

Perhaps now I'll start writing more often about what is happening. This was also precipitated by the lack of spam-fighting ability in my custom written blog engine that I was running. I'm also starting to get tired of using Java for web-apps in general, so I feel less of a need to dogfood my own frameworks.

So, we'll see how it goes.

New York vs Bed Bugs

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We'll update everyone on what we're doing and look forward to your input.

Thanks again to everyone who is sending letters for our campaign for a bed bug task force. You are rock stars and we are deeply grateful for your support.

I should probably first explain the name- the phrase comes from the Decemberists' song "Sons and Daughters" from The Crane Wife. Like so many Decemberists songs, it does a great job of describing my romantic ideals, in this case, of a dreamy insurrection.

When we arrive,
sons and daughters,
we'll make our homes on the water,
we'll build our walls aluminum,
we'll fill our lives with cinnamon now.

These currents pull us 'cross the border,
steady your boats,
arms to shoulder.
'Till tides are pulled,
hold our grounds,
making this cold harbor now home.

Take up your arms,
sons and daughters.
We will arise from the bunkers.
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now.

When arrive,
sons and daughters,
we'll make our lives on the water,
we'll build our walls aluminum,
we'll fill our mouths with cinnamon.

Here all the bombs fade away.

So good, so good. Who wants to go to the bunkers with me?

Las metas incluyen la necesidad de lograr el mejoramiento de un 15% en los promedios en las pruebas SABER y el ICFES durante los próximos cinco años, mejorar en bilingüismo, con 500 estudiantes certificados por año e incorporar masivamente las tecnologías informáticas al proceso educativo.

Pese a que las Instituciones de Educación Superior y el SENA hacen análisis de demanda o análisis de contexto para ajustar su oferta educativa, no se ven resultados notables en cuanto a la incorporación efectiva de los promovidos y egresados al mercado laboral. Esto se debe en parte a que la formación de habilidades empresariales no empieza en estos niveles, empieza desde la misma educación familiar y preescolar. Igualmente, es urgente abandonar el enfoque educativo que solo produce egresados buscadores de empleo. La estrategia de transformación productiva y generación de valor agregado a la producción departamental, requiere de un contingente de capital humano suficiente, que solo puede ser producido por un sistema educativo pertinente, que ofrezca servicios de acuerdo a la demanda actual y futura, procesos que deben ser apoyados por las secretarias de educación.

Es necesario que el sistema promueva y refuerce valores y habilidades como la confianza, la perseverancia, la autoestima, el liderazgo, la creatividad y el gusto por el ahorro y la planeación. La propuesta involucra la formación en la básica primaria y secundaria con la adquisición de disciplina, mayores habilidades para la gestión y la toma de decisiones. Busca en la formación media y técnica, las competencias para desarrollar actividades productivas según la vocación económica departamental. Forma al profesional de cualquier disciplina para gerenciar su propia empresa, administrar procesos de gestión de conocimiento, investigación e innovación; y además, refuerza la formación ciudadana, promoviendo la cooperación, la solidaridad, la honestidad y la tolerancia.

Manuel Javier Fierro Patiño. Magíster en Desarrollo. http://javierfierro.wordpress.com

Right now, there appear to be 24 stories online. None of my features or restaurant reviews are showing up, just the regular biweekly columns.

Here is the Dan Zen board interface from 1998 (Read about it on this Blog). All this talk of Social Networks reminded me of my Social link up to left. This was really my blog announcing the latest things on Dan Zen through one of my "barnacles" Eg Orna. The barnacles were all anagrams of their colors.

More to the point is that just this corner of the site shows five social networks and games - they are still active and some started in 1996. To date there are a couple dozen social games on Dan Zen averaging about two per year over twelve years. They can be seen thought the Social Category at the right of the blog - please note there are two pages with the second page being accessible from the top.

The five social games shown in the corner are (Moustache Mysteries is a game for individuals):

1. Spirogram where you send and receive encoded messages.
2. Salamander where you go into a park with a bunch of others and try and find a spy called the Salamander based on clues.
3. Opartica where you can share portfolios or individual op art creations.
4. Hip Cats, an all out social network with accounts; ratings of other hip cats; dating; friending; indication of favorite movies, books, and music; top ten hip cats newsletter; a buzz section with user created music, book, movie and Website reviews, happenings, protests, koans, radical ideas, first times and translations that turned your words into certain hip moods like psychedelic, beatnik, goth, urban and surf; messages; ratings on products; tie-ins to affiliate Amazon purchasing; templated scenes for organizations to host a Hip Cats site complete with stats, word filtering, self modifying drop outs; all programmed in DHTML within months from its launch.
5. Password Paradox is another self modifying social game where the passwords you guess right are actually the passwords that others have already guessed.

Another thing I noticed recently was the Loves You tag on the top of the flickr logo (replacing the alpha or beta that once was there helping bring in the age of Web 2.0 gizmos). Dan Zen used to put We Love You at the bottom of a number of pages often after introduction and help pages. Examples are below. You can still find them on Hip Cats and other pages. Of course we are all welcome to love! It was really nice of flickr ;-)

Certes, elle cite également de son âge que de contribuer à son ralentissement, mais une fois encore, l'attention constante des médias n'est pas propice à siégeant seul pendant de longues heures, départ à l'écran d'ordinateur.

I normally don't begin sentences with 'certes' but I like it.

The sidebar also becomes far more amusing. Plattie, alas, has no French equivalent (though it's translating her as well - she has a trou in her dent, alas - no, wait, it's J. who does). Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books (hmm, I seem to have mistranscribed the site name) becomes 'Smart chiennes qui trashy amour des livres' which is a nice try as French clearly doesn't get 'trashy' though given that their movies always seem to involve prostitutes, I am not sure about this.

Anyway, French is classier, but I lose track of the the diacritics.

Consider this Wordpress an indefinite holding cell until the actual time comes to launch the long-awaited tM domain. I've been itching to write regularly for over a year, holding off solely so that tM could get a more monumental debut: "Mayka returns to blogging!" Turns out I couldn't hold out for much longer than a year, though. A number of factors have contributed to today's seemingly arbitrary declaration of recommitting to blogging.

First of all, I'm going on vacation this week. I'm flying out to New York, where I hope to be overwhelmed with sensory overload. I go on vacations to get away from everyday scenery, and my eyes have been aching for something totally out of the ordinary to severely offend or inspire me.

Second, I'm unemployed. My last day of work was about 2.5 weeks ago, and though I have my melancholy moments of feeling like I'm floating through space, all this free time gives me more things to notice, and thus more things to share with the rest of the world.

Lastly, Schwertlilie has been working on the design of tM for just over a year now, and though she's learning great things that take time to learn and even more time to apply to in the creation of a new site, my inner child can't help but be impatient.

So that all brings us here, with me in my apartment taking a break from simultaneously Websurfing, resume-polishing, and Photoshopping, to finally saying writing posting that I can't wait anymore. It's not that I think there is a public that misses me. It's that there are YouTube videos to be seen and blogs to be read that I can no longer handle sharing via the one-off e-mails and IMs I've been sending out lately. It's easier to broadcast, and when you're born with a healthy dose of narcissism, it's actually more fun.

I don't intend for this thing to be a proprietary vehicle. I have no delusions about gaining Julia Allison notoriety, beating Engadget to the punch, or being perceived as a credible expert on anything. If you're here now, you're probably just a part of my existing social circle. If you're here and you don't know how to pronounce my name, there is no fancy description for the non-phenomenon of landing on a person's blog. If you find yourself coming back here, you're probably just interested in the passive voyeuristic opportunities provided by "the blogosphere." Whatever your path, if you like to read about 20-something ABC girls who like dancing, writing, surfing the Net, hyphy music, and Puma sneakers, I look forward to your browser hits.

Have a happy Monday, and I promise (to myself, basically) that I won't bore you with writing like this in the future. I hate to end with a Kanye West song, because by no means do I think he shits gold, but I'm just feelin' the title of the song right now (I hate the song, itself.). So please excuse the cheese, but I just have to do this: Welcome to the Good Life.

More ass than the models,
~M.

You may have noticed that I've been absent. I am working my bad ass off at two jobs securing spending money for my trip next weekend to Music City, USA itself, Nashville TN (and thence to Dollywood!!) and haven't even had a chance to apologize for my absence.

I'll be back on Thursday, May 22nd with another music memoir.

Until then, here are two songs called "Tennessee" and two songs called "Nashville." I was unable to find a song called "Pigeon Forge" or "Gatlinburg" (where Dollywood is located), much to my own chagrin:

1. "Tennessee" by Silver Jews, possibly the best song about Tennessee ever (We're off to the land of club soda unbridled / We're off to the land of hot, middle-aged women):

[audio http://badassmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/06-tennessee.mp3]
Download Tennessee

2. "Nashville" by the Indigo Girls, a lovely song from their 1992 album Rites of Passage, which actually reminds me a lot of my time in Los Angeles, weirdly ( I came to you with a half-open heart dreams upon my back illusions of a brand-new start / Nashville can't I carry the load / Is it my fault I can't reap what I sow? / Nashville did you give me half a chance / with your southern style and your hidden dance?)

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Download Indigo Girls's Nashville

3. The classic "Tennessee" by Arrested Development. Oh yeah. I went there. And also, a cover by New Found Glory from a compilation called Punk Goes Crunk. While I'm not really sure you could classify New Found Glory as "punk" or Arrested Development as "crunk," I kind of dig the cover, even if the vocals are, you know, a bit whiny.

Arrested Development:
[audio http://badassmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/02-tennessee.mp3]

New Found Glory:
[audio http://badassmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/03-tennessee-arrested-development-cover.mp3]

4. Finally, one of the guiltiest of my guilty feminist pleasures, Liz Phair, applying her sexy, breathy vocals to her song "Nashville" from Whip Smart (They don't know what they like so much about it / They just go for any shiny old bauble, and nobody sparkles like you/ But I can't imagine it in better terms/ Then naked, half-awake, about to shave and go to work). It doesn't have a lot to do with the city itself, but goodness is it lovely:

[audio http://badassmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/06-nashville.mp3]
Download Liz Phair's Nashville

So don't. Don't settle for less. Push yourself to the limits of what you can do, discard old familar habits, go on a limb and experiment. Take with you efficiacy, resourcefulness, moral justice, and a yen for more. Sometimes you'll fail, sometimes you'll find something so wonderful you would have never thought of if you didn't push yourself so hard. You won't ever know if you don't try, and in trying you might find yourself redefined.

(Okay I am complaining alittle bit..stupid dvd player..)

I am still figuring out the internet vs Local/ "Clued vs Clueless" thing. It is very similar to that letter writing conundrum. (Yes I used to write letters.)Do you try to do the catch up thing or do you just throw 'em into the moment? As I wrote the last sentence I think I am siding with the latter. Just with a side order of the former. I have been in the tributaries of the mainstream for way too long to pretend I came across some things yesterday. 
 

So I am just going to blow off all my big plans and just post some links to the things I've been grooving on these days. With the promise to myself I'll get back to all these things I've been digging for years. I am always looking for new things to blow my mind.

From Boing Boing, the well established blog that I finally got into, is this link to Gangstagrass. A free album that mashes up hip-hop with bluegrass to great effect. I am not a big rap fan though I like Anticon, Deltron 3030 and geek stuff like McChris. I tell myself I should check out stuff like Aesop Rock but I am lazy. And my bluegrass tastes lean towards a touch in my insurgent country. Stuff like The Gourds or Robbie Fulks, or even The Mekons will have a taste in their stuff but nothing full blown. But Gangstagrass is equal parts of both genres and not to mention really professional sounding for something you can get for free. Free is good right? Check it out.

My quest for pitch black British comedy has lead me to Peep Show. Only season one has been released in US and it is not the best season. Which is the best season? I am not sure. Like a lot of Britcoms, it is the overall appeal comes through seeing more than one episode. It all about the way the story builds. And a nifty gimmick which gives it a unique style.

So here's a link to the first part of episode one. Start there and dig further if you find it remotely interesting. This is some funny stuff if you can handle something brutally honest. Each episode builds to an extreme squirmy social situation. I want to write something more detailed. But I have lots of plans.

I enjoy webcomics like Boy on a Stick and Slither
but I also follow newspaper strips online as well. Yeah I like me some Pearls Before Swine but it is actually in papers around here. So here's a link for something that will probably not come to my neck of Penn's Wood. Zippy is a playfully odd strip which is the definition of a cult item. The above link is a good start to understanding Bill Griffith's work. It may take awhile for it to stick but it sure is addictive when you get into its surrealistic media satire groove.

I may be new to podcasts but I am well versed in the slanted funhouse world of cult/psychotronic/ bad cinema. As a struggling movie maker, I find more inspiration in the flawed and failed attempts of past genre specialists than the bland cgi saturated focus grouped efforts of modern Hollywood. On the internet I came upon sites like Eccentric Cinema which wrote smartly about movies that most 'normal” people would consider dumb. But only now have found what seems to be the top of the line in cult movie podcasts, Cinema Diabolica. The production values seem closer to something that might be played on radio, if radio didn't suck, and the guys mix intellect with gut level humor with aplomb.

And coming back to music, I point you in the direction of The Kills' third album Midnight Boom . I never listened to this duo writing off as some White Stripes sort of thing. But boy I'm glad that I listened to them. A rough guitar, some clever “found sound/organic” bits, drum machines, a female singer, and a minimal style which is thoroughly modern but points back to the golden age of first generation NYC CBGB 77 Punk. Greatness in a concise accessible package that is just the right amount of experimentation and straight ahead rock. Recommended.

Well this felt good. Maybe this is the direction to take this. A wild ride right across the digital info-scape. Okay I am done. See you in about a week with a chance of a more focused post here and there.

g.

Nå er jo en ganske stor andel av postene mer eller mindre ubetydelig svada, en del sangtekster, youtube-videoer og annet surr, så det nok ikke like mange "skikkelige" poster, men jeg syns allikevel at dette var verdt å feire med litt meta.

Ettersom jeg var lenger på blogspot enn jeg har vært på wordpress, er ikke tallene helt rette, men...

[her ble jeg avbrutt av noe ganske spennende som kommer i neste post!]

I følge Wordpress, var min beste dag 24. April, med 288 treff. Det var i stort sett på grunn av disse to innleggene, og de to førnevnte + dette - er de tre mest leste på hele bloggen.

Nå husker jeg sånn noenlunde hvordan det lå an på det forrige domenet, og dette innlegget gav mange flere treff en alle de tre forrige til sammen - hele 800 treff allerede første dagen, mens "Hånebloggen revealed" som er det mest leste på wp, har "bare" fått 362 treff. Til gjengjeld tikker det inn 2-3 treff på det innlegget daglig.

Det siste halvåret har kanskje vært det året da det har vært mest hensiktsmessig for meg å skrive blogg. Det har vært usedvanlig aktivt, mye har hendt (til meg å være iallefall) og det har vært mange opp- og nedturer. Litt mange nedturer kanskje... men det er da det har vært greit å ha denne bloggen - skrive litt, få det ut. Jeg har også fått mange fine kommentarer - og tro meg, hvor enn ubetydelig den måtte virke - det varmer! :)

Da jeg gjorde min entré her i "bloggpolis", fikk jeg fort inntrykk av at det hadde vært flere store krangler (blandt de "store"), og det var viktig å velge side. Jeg forsto meg ikke helt på alt dette, så jeg holdt meg helst i mitt eget hjørne. Den første "store" bloggeren jeg kommenterte hos var radiohode. Jeg hadde lest bloggen en stund, og likte det jeg så. Her fikk jeg etter min mening en helt fantastisk mottagelse, og jeg og to andre bloggere fikk faktisk en hel bloggpost hos ham som "reklame" - slikt står det respekt av! Jeg begynte å lese hos radiohode fast, og jeg likte bloggen bedre og bedre, og via bloggen hans, fant jeg flere andre blogger som også var meget gode. radiohode ble dessverre for en stund siden presset til å legge ned bloggen. Noen reagerte, men de fleste så bare på - det var mektige bloggere han hadde mot seg. Under denne konflikten kom jeg over flere andre blogger (disse var blant dem som reagerte) som jeg i ettertid fortsatt leser og setter pris på. Jeg fikk da et slags lite innblikk i hvem som var sauer og hvem som var mennesker (nå sikter jeg selvsagt til dem som ikke hadde noe med/kjente til denne konflikten). radiohode er fortsatt nedlagt, og det ser ikke ut som om det er håp for at den kvikner til igjen. Maria Mytterist savner ham, og det gjør jeg også...

Etterhvert som jeg har blitt vant til å skrive litt av og til, syns jeg at formuleringene mine har blitt betraktelig bedre. Når jeg ser på noen av det jeg skrev i min spede begynnelse, gremmes jeg av hvor dårlig det er skrevet - og noe sier meg at om enda et halvt år, kommer jeg til å synes det samme om det jeg knoter ned nå. Sonitus har satt litt pris på noe av det jeg har skrevet, og to av postene mine har havnet borte hos dem; Likørglass og Bøker. Sistnevnte forstår jeg ikke helt hvorfor havnet der, da jeg allerede når jeg skrev det, syns at det var ganske dårlig - kanskje stiller jeg for høye krav til meg selv?

Det har blitt ganske mye musikk-blogging. Musikken er en del av min identitet, og slik kommer det nok alltid til å være. Spesielt mye har det blitt om Nine Inch Nails. Jeg liker ganske mange andre band også, men dem har det vært ganske stille rundt den siste tiden, men i Nine Inch Nailsville har det vært alt annet enn stille :D Musikkpostene mine drar stort sett ikke lesere, men jeg liker å skrive dem. Jeg håper jeg alltid klarer å holde på den innstillingen (kjære lesere: hvis jeg begynner å horeblogge - sett meg gjerne på plass!!)

Jeg lå å planla denne posten i natt, jeg hadde mange ideer, flere av dem (de fleste?) har jeg glemt. Kanskje legger jeg dem til etterhvert. Tiden får vise... Men! Det var én viktig ting til jeg ønsket å få med. Etter alt oppstyret og kranglingen som har vært i det såkalte bloggpolis, syns jeg at det er på tide at jeg gjør det stikk motsatte (og det hjelper jo ikke akkurat på at jeg er i usedvanlig godt humør idag!) - så her kommer litt skryt til de bloggerne jeg setter mest pris på!

• Ithilgalad/Kristine: Kristine er opphavet til denne bloggen. Hadde ikke hun funnes, hadde ikke denne bloggen det heller. Hvis jeg ikke husker helt feil, søkte jeg på Puscifer på kvasir, og da dukket bloggen hennes opp. Dette måtte selvsagt leses, for jeg tror vi er ganske så få her i landet som hører på Puscifer. Så jeg leste. Leste litt til, og enda litt til. Leste alt. Jeg likte virkelig denne bloggen, og en slik blogg ville jeg også ha! Slik ble altså denne bloggen født. Nå har jeg blitt litt bedre kjent med Kristine, og hun er kanskje den bloggeren jeg setter mest pris på. Det er alltid spennende når noe nytt dukker opp i feeden (no pressure :P ), og - hun er, har jeg lært, et fantastisk menneske! :) Og jeg anbefaler bloggen hennes på det varmeste til absolutt alle!
• Eugenie: Det stormer ofte i bloggpolis. Det gjør det ikke hos Eugenie. Jeg kjenner henne ikke så godt enda, men hun skriver en behagelig blogg som er fin å lese når alt annet er stress og kav. Hun har en slags beroligene effekt som jeg setter stor pris på. Jeg er kanskje spesielt glad i de fine innleggene om Jarek - han virker som en hyggelig hund :) (hm... den som ikke hadde hadd allergi!!)
• Maria Mytterist: Første gang jeg kom over MM, var et innlegg hun skrev om sin irritasjon over en annen blogger. Der og da syns jeg kanskje at innlegget kanskje var litt drøyt, men jeg kjente ikke noen særlig til denne andre bloggeren, eller saken generelt. Med tiden, kanskje spesielt gjennom "radiohode-saken", har jeg funnet ut én ting. I motsetning til ekstremt mange andre bloggere, hykler ikke MM. Hun sier ting rett og slett slik de er, og når hun først reagerer, er det sannsynligvis berettiget. Hvorfor skal man egentlig gå helt rundt grøten??
  MM tar også veldig mange flotte bilder, og mange ganger forstår jeg rett og slett ikke hvordan hun får det til! Som om det ikke holdt med en flott foto-del, skriver hun også mange fine novelle-aktige tekster som jeg setter stor pris på. Dette er en meget intelligent og talentfull dame som virkelig er verdt å følge med på!
• Petter (Neppe.no): Denne bloggen har jeg bare så vidt oppdaget. Jeg har lest en stund, men kommentarer har det blitt smått med. Det er rett og slett fordi jeg ikke har hatt så mye å tilføre, for det er en god blogg, det er ikke det! Han skriver morsomt og om spennnende og interessante ting, og etter det jeg har forstått er han begynt å bli ganske så dreven i fotokunst :P Absolutt en hyggelig kar, og virkelig verdt et besøk!
• Nuztorad: Dette er kanskje min hyppigste kommentator og av de 486 kommentarene her på bloggen, gjetter jeg at hun står for halvparten! :P Hun er helt ny som blogger, ikke eldre enn fra i går faktisk, men jeg tror hun kommer til å stå for en meget god blogg, og jeg syns at alle i bloggpolis burde gi henne en skikkelig "radiohode-velkomst"!

Gah... nå er jeg sliten av å skrive! ;)

Håper jeg ikke har glemt noen nå da :P Da får jeg bare dårlig samvittighet...

Peace Out!

The slippery slope of liberal "Christianity", the phariseic route.

I have become somebody I loathe.

But let me start at the beginning. I am successful and lucky by most measures. Good job, high income, intelligent, reasonably attractive, healthy, loving family, stable upbringing. Compared to others, I have no problems of substance, I have no hard luck tale. On the contrary I have a good luck tale.

Yet my problems are real to me. Many are common problems. Perhaps many are not problems at all, but things I perceive to be problems. Many are simply a consequence of my outlook and attitude.

So here I am - miserable. Worst of all I am miserable because of my own choices, my own actions and my own expectations. I need to change before I lose hope entirely. This is not easy for me; I have tried before. Bad habits are hard to break, and the black dog is never far away.

I've started this blog for two reasons: therapy and commitment. I hope the act of writing will provide me with some form of release and absolution; a confessional if you will. I hope too that publicly sharing my thoughts and intentions will keep me from straying too far off course. I don't really care if nobody ever reads this blog; the mere chance that you might is enough.

So this is a journey of discovery and healing. I don't have all the answers, but I hope to discover some along the way. Feel free to join me on this journey and offer your wisdom, support or abuse as you see fit. My ultimate aim? I'm not sure. To be happy with my life I guess. I think that's all that anyone can hope for.

I want to be a better person.

Another option would be to use this opportunity to get a tattoo that you can use for reference, like "i before e, except after c." Or maybe just words that are hard to spell, or math equations you need for class. I often confuse the backslash with the forward slash, for example, so I could get one that says, "Backslash /" and below it "Forward slash \" (unless it is the other way around). Another good one is one that could show the appropriate use of the semicolon; for example, a tattoo could read ";however" as a reminder to use a semicolon instead of a comma when "however" is in the middle of a sentence. Or maybe you can't remember whether single or double quotation marks should be used when you have a quote within a quote within a quote. In that case, you could have a tattoo that looks like this ""'""'"" and you would always remember.

Other good choices are tattoos that make you look old, like forehead wrinkles or nasolabial folds, or a drawn-on receding hairline on a guy who's shaved his head. That way, a stranger can not only feel a pleasant sense of relief upon finding out that you are not actually old/balding, but will also not experience any alarm once he/she has known you a long time and you actually do start aging. It's kind of like the same function powdered wigs served in eighteenth-century Europe, only much, much more permanent (better).

Finally, you could tattoo every word you write on the internet on your body. That way, you might write more thoughtful, well-crafted sentences. Alternatively, you could just have "meta" tattooed on your body and resign yourself to a life of self-hatred.

This is across the street from me. Whoa.

Well, yes.  But they don't have to.  So I've decided to start this blog to do my own snarky thing, which I usually do with politics, but this time with corporate blogs.

Every board room in America is having this conversation -

We need a blog.  I have no idea what that is.  But we need one.  Now.

Before we get started, have a look at my series of reviews of political blogs in Ohio.  That'll be a good jumping off point for any marketing or PR division head getting ready to take the dive.  Then come back here, and we'll start the reviews.

In the meantime, make suggestions for corporate blogs that need a good going over.

Hope to do writeups for Allison and Lillia, Vampire Knight, and Wagaya no Oinari-sama soon.

Sorry folks, no Sunday Pages today - we've been busy all weekend with the Bristol Comics Expo. But stay tuned this time next week for a report on our time there, including some rather exciting news about yours truly and Spider-Man. We've also got some interviews to post at some point, too. Normal reviewing service, meanwhile, will resume tomorrow...

Forvent indlæg fra 1. juli 2008.