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Stop Whining About Panda
It’s been a long time since I’ve written here. I haven’t really felt the urge to update this blog until now because, well, I allowed content mills to suck my writing soul away. “Write this. Write this way. Keywords! SEO! Pageviews! But, nope, can’t get you much money for that.” Ah, the joys of picking [...]
Us vs. Them
So, I was looking through trying to find out what I needed to find out and one link led to me to an article that I thought was really interesting and, of course, it had nothing to do with my original search criteria. I just happened to be scanning and thought I’d take a gander [...]
Now I Understand
I was reading this post on BlogHer when I followed a link to an article about "death bloggers". I had never thought of something like Munchausen by Proxy could bleed into the Internet culture. But it makes perfect sense at the same time. There are examples of varying degrees of this sort of thing in [...]
Hashtag Drama
Whatever to things like diamond rings being big ol’ status symbols? You’d see a woman with a few big rocks on her fingers and you knew she was either rolling in the money or was hooked up with a man that was (I have a friend who still thinks diamonds = status, by the way). [...]
I don’t Like [Fill in the Blank]
You know what I hate? I hate people– mostly those new to blogging or those trying to emulate Darren Rowse– deciding what and what shouldn’t be on a blog. They decide what people should be writing about, what pictures they should be posting and everything else in between. They say: “You shouldn’t have personal information [...]
Other Financial Crises
As the U.S. bails out the financial districts and those that engage in futures trading can breathe a sigh of relief, Europe is facing it’s own financial crisis. The global credit crunch deepened in Europe as government leaders pledged to bail out troubled banks and protect depositors. BNP Paribas SA will take control of Fortis’s [...]
Bloomberg wants third term
New York is all abuzz about Mayor Bloomberg. Apparently the two-term mayor is put off by term limits and wants to extend his stay in the Mayor’s office for another term. New York City civilians have voted twice in the past to limit the terms of their mayors and even America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, couldn’t [...]
