I am isolated and speechless at work
Recently at work I started blogging on an internal site I called Mousetraps and Manifestos. It is intended to provide a perspective on things related to my job, my responsibilites and, in general,...
View ArticleA quick note about blogs
Just recently in a column by Jaime Castillo in the Express-News there were some comments regarding some of the various political blogs that have been started in the San Antonio community. While I...
View ArticleA new way to look at news media
Friday I attended a session at SXSW titled “The Ecosystem of News” presented by Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost and several other books. The session focused on the status of traditional media in a...
View ArticleA little much needed downtime
I just got back from Kansas City after watching the 1st/2nd Rounds of the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. While we didn’t have the wild ride games of Miami or other sites it was great to watch college...
View ArticleBlogging vs. microblogging
Facebook recently changed their platform to more resemble the Twitter style approach to news feeds. It’s commonly called microblogging and seems to be gathering traction in the social media space....
View ArticleThe lifespan of a blog
Yesterday I decided to make some changes to my blog to position it for the future. The most significant change was the URL for the blog. Whereas before it was my personal domain name, I moved it to the...
View ArticleTo blog or not to blog
Sunday in an article in the New York Times it seems that many people who start blogging either walk away from the experience or have reduced the number of blog postings published. “According to a 2008...
View ArticleTomorrow I head to Netroots Nation
Tomorrow I leave for what is almost a political blogger’s dream vacation. Okay, that does sound a little weird but if you are anything of a political wonk and like to write about it Netroots Nation is...
View ArticleNetroots Nation: Last day was a learning experience
Today was the last day of the largest political bloggers convention in the nation, Netroots Nation 2009. It started with a bang and ended with zzzzs for me. What made it even better was that I snuck a...
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The reality or lack of it on the Internet
This past weekend if you surfed the NY Times website Sunday morning looking for information on the “Tea Party” march in Washington you probably were surprised to have a fake antivirus malware popup hit...
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