Expecting light blogging the next few days. Flying East tomorrow and into NY for a quick stopover. Boston Friday and into the riotous and heady job of BloggerCon. If you are going to BloggerCon, I am looking forward to meeting you…if you are considering it, come–at least for the free day if you can’r swing… Continue Reading

Just found this page. What is it–okay to link to stories for bloggers?

One of the nimblest New York feature writers is Vanessa Grigoriadis, who wrote dozens of frothy and funny cover stories for New York magazine before leaving to reportedly go to Yale Divinity School. Grigoriadis resurfaced at The New York Times Style Section a few weeks ago and resumed filing the artful fluff she’d done so… Continue Reading

Google added another notch to its paid search belt today when it s nagged heavweight international player TerraLycos, whose 11 sites drew 31.2 million unique visitors in August. Terra Lycos joins iVillage, Weather.com and Switchboard .

According to a recent survey conducted by AOL in conjunction with the launch of KOL, the new AOL Kids Only service,, nearly half of the kids in the US(46%) go online at least four times a week and nearly 20% go online every day. Top towns for time spent online? Tampa/St. Petersburg Philadelphia, New York,… Continue Reading

This story about a new Google acquisition is like the high tech version of the Fast and the Furious. What if you started a company and Google bought it within 60 days of launch? August 11, 2003: ZDNet runs a story about “stealth start-up Kaltix,” founded by three members of the PageRank Group at Stanford… Continue Reading

The topic of privacy and what you do and don’t write on your blog–both your personal blog and a workplace blog–interests me as a question of privacy, but also of voice, of how bloggers present themselves. After all, blogs are personas. We emphasize particular aspects of ourselves, allow things we want to share to be… Continue Reading

Singapore curried noodles Curried acorn squash (This was a Wayne Nish recipe from Starchefs.com and it did NOT turn out well Pan-sauteed salmon Los Helgados Mexican ices, including a flavor calledf Arroz, that–suprise– that tasted like rosewater, cinnamon and rice (pudding)

Through piece by Mark Glaser on setting expectations and managing the flow of blogs associated with online news sites. In addition to Glaser’s sensible tips, I’d offer the following top ten tips for newspaper thinking about blogs: 1) Whose blog is it anyway? There’s a profound difference between a blog published as the equivalent of… Continue Reading

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