Category Archives: meta

Why I Blog

About to go meta. Forewarned, and such… Thus concludes January with my 16th blog post of the month. But who’s counting? Not quite on the NaBloPoMo level, but for me I think it may stand as a personal record. I … Continue reading

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Convening in Austin

The Preamble For the 1.7 regular readers of this periodically forsaken blog, you may still have a vague recollection of an earlier era (may even have been when we still went by The Duologue!) when a significant portion of my … Continue reading

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Navel gazing pause

A quick acknowledgment of my absence today … but only today. All this navel gazing takes so much time and energy, and since I actually did some chores tonight and find myself a bit sleep-deprived, I am taking the day … Continue reading

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metafile

I spent some thyme this past weekend enhancing the O to the M: Added ‘Related Posts’ link to each post Added links to thee site’s ‘Most Popular’ posts Set up post tags (see them after each post) Backed up our … Continue reading

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Word (press) Up

Deep thanks to those who enable us to share our ideas with the world: Matt Mullenweg can barely buy a drink, but this 22-year-old open-source enthusiast developed WordPress, the open-source publishing software favored by blogging diehards around the world. In … Continue reading

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why we do it

I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said, ‘You can’t,’ ‘You can never be sure.’ ‘You die without knowing,’ ‘Whether anything you wrote was any good.’ ‘If … Continue reading

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Hats Off

To my blog partner, Xtina, who blogged both dedicatedly and beautifully for the entire month of November, huzzah. Reading your posts was a tremendous pleasure, not only for the interesting thoughts and insights into your life, but as much for … Continue reading

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we’ll see you again

This posting every day is tiring me out. You see I write for work as well. Letters, executive communication, press releases, project descriptions, &tc. So although I love words, both ingesting and excreting, I do sometimes feel speechless when faced … Continue reading

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Jealousy.

Facebook executives told their Microsoft peers they couldn’t do an 8 a.m. conference call  because the company’s 22-year-old founder and chief executive, Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, wouldn’t be awake, says a person familiar with the talks. Microsoft executives were incredulous.

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My Top 5 Social Media tools

Since all bloggers hate me and I have exactly zero chance of being ‘tagged’ by anyone with a blog, I have chosen to tag myself and join in the schizo party and tell all of my reader (intentionally singular) what … Continue reading

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Brave new media world

WashingtonPost.com, one of the better online ‘mainstream media’ sites, has announced their headfirst dive into the the new media world of the interactive community by allowing reader comments on all of their articles. This is a move I consider both … Continue reading

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The blogger has no clothes…

can we even righfully call ourselves bloggers since we have left the cozy nest of the blogger.com publishing toolset to try our wings at the fancy schmancy post-industrial revolution, infomation-age web 2.0 meta-tools of WordPress? well, we can still blog … Continue reading

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