March 2008
57 posts
warns: expect silence in this unusual week. Will return
Coming back, really →
Big - but important - changes coming. Thanks for you patience and kind words. Soon, I will return to my place.
Listening
Calling it a night. Not setting the alarm.
Seriously suffering from caring too much
Slipping into a heavy day of writing, linking, thinking
If my final to-do list stays missing can I leave early?
4 recruiters in 1 day? Why?
Brain, body are fighting. To think some crave steroids. I regret that they help when tapering off
It’s 3 a.m. I’m done for the night/day whatever
Good news about being up late it’s 2 a.m. - is the dog doesn’t have to wake me up. Now, if only I would remember to let her back in :-)
Facebook suggests friends, linked in suggests connections … When will twitter?
Digging through digital dust to see what’s underneath that I should keep, share, toss
Just found my notes on how to update gopher ‘town square,’ change Usenet settings. Plus 1995 presentation on World Wide Web :-o
Happy day. Only a lump. No cancer found :-)
Sliding into a busy week
Never be bad again? http://tinyurl.com/27c6kx,1,336119.story
Table talk: where will we, kids work? Post says not here http://tinyurl.com/2t4f9k
Post: Real rules! - why twitter rules http://tinyurl.com/2k8d4x
Seeking bloggers from Flint MI or posting about Flint
Oh good. More rules for twitter http://tinyurl.com/2kgcjz
Color war over?http://tinyurl.com/36o9ra
Buyout journalists, remember this .. →
Don Fry over at Poynter Online offers some tips for those wondering what to do after the buyout at a newspaper. So he tells us what we can do: “You can read, write, think, talk, sort out…
Convert newspapers to slippers
http://tinyurl.com/2fjzst
Why can’t gmail stop trashing my Google Alerts?
Missing or women who rock? http://tinyurl.com/yrphx9
Still hearing Claudia Schmidt singing, playing … angels in kelly green stretch pants or balancing drinks in beehives
Yapping dogs pierce the silence. I want them to get along so I can pretend only adults fill this room
Not sure we win knowing what is in the brain if it is too risky to remove.
Comcast is testing my patience on a night that I don’t have a lot. I need my Internet service!
Finished blogging about Flint blogers or bloggers on Flint Michigan
Wow. Bracketboy grows up rich
Must learn to ignore dog @2, husband alarm @4am
What? I’m grouchy
NewMediaBytes- news video ideas
April 4 is my last day at The Flint Journal
April 4 is my LAST day at Flint Journal. Really.
Late-night programming, planning pays off
The line is drawn in concrete.
Don't listen, just review? →
Ouch! An apology is out there. But I wonder how many times people review without listening first It seems more possible every time I read the same phrase in a review at multiple locations. In…
Forget soup! Get me some fries in my newspaper! →
Ready to use food again to look at what’s wrong in today’s news world? The nerdy guy from Kansas (now in Washington DC) fondly remembers a restaurant “back “home” that always sneaks a bit of…
Three days of inspiration (off line):Charged, but behind
Online soup could use more women, right? →
How do we make our own online, stone soup? What’s up with all these mom sites? And are woman at the multimedia, web table? Steve Yelvington got me rolling with the soup imagery (thank you …
Passion required to get things done →
The idea of being passionate is jumping out at me. Right now, it is an publisher’s note in the January edition of Oxygen. Oxygen, a fitness magazine aimed at women, is not on my normal reading…
Dismantling the audiotext system →
It’s only a matter of days before I’ll pull the plug on The Flint Journal’s audotext system. Seriously, we have still been delivering information by phone. But despite the number of calls to hear…
Gearing up for GS Trainers Conference
Do men dominate Twitter? Facebook?
Twitter away →
Sometimes, experience is the best teacher so let me share some insights from another on Twitter and give you some links to Twitter media links. Here’s what Rick Mahn, who spent a year with…
Why does Gmail label Google Alerts spam?
Taming technology, training me →
Before voice mail and caller ID, before cellphones even, a friend showed me a liberating lesson by letting the phone ring. I thought of that when someone suggested I try silence when stumbling over…