• Americans Don’t Read
    Posted on 25th July 2004

    Americans Don’t Read

    Last month, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of a new study: “Reading At Risk” .Its findings, which are significant, and alarming, are as follows:

    The percentage of adult Americans reading literature has dropped dramatically over the past 20 years.
    The decline in literary reading parallels a decline in total book reading.
    The rate [...]

  • Who Needs Blogs?
    Posted on 22nd July 2004

    Who Needs Blogs?

    While mining for anything about blogging and the Democratic National Convention, I stumbled upon another consideration. Some people are asking: “Who needs blogs, anyway?”

  • Art of Speed
    Posted on 21st July 2004

    Art of Speed

    The Art of Speed has run its course. In the blink-and-miss world of hit-and-run publishing, this fly-by-night commercial blog by Nike has already done what it came to do.
    Luckily, you can still read what’s there, if you’re interested. It doesn’t really need to be something you get on-the-fly. (ok i’ll quit with the hypens)
    What IS [...]

  • Kinds of Journals
    Posted on 20th July 2004

    Kinds of Journals

    I have discovered a few different kinds of journals:

  • The Boston Weblogger Meetup
    Posted on 19th July 2004

    The Boston Weblogger Meetup

    Well, I’ve been invited so I guess I’ll attend The Boston Weblogger Meetup on Wednesday, July 21st.
    They’ve got this funny little thing called meetup.com, which is a lot like evite.com, and it manages the RSVPs. kinda cool. I don’t have any idea what to expect with a bloggers meetup, but hey, I’m a stranger in [...]

  • creative problem continued
    Posted on 18th July 2004

    creative problem continued

    Several days ago, I posted some sloppy notes about the craft involved with the management of a project like this website. I have since recieved some comments. One of the comments, I deleted. It said: “have you considered therapy,” which I take to mean that my post must ahve appeared very scatterbrained [...]

  • Enabling Inhibitions that Enable
    Posted on 18th July 2004

    Enabling Inhibitions that Enable

    I just got off the phone with my Dad — can that man ever talk! Don’t get me wrong its not like the annoying parent phone calls you see in the movie where the poor protaginist sighs and says “oh brother” ACtually I prefer talking to my Dad over almost anyone else.
    He says, among dozens [...]

  • Amazon.com: What is a Plog?
    Posted on 18th July 2004

    Amazon.com: What is a Plog?

    I’m not even sure where I want to begin with this. Is it silly that Amazon is drawing this rediculous name-dropping attentionto what is essentailly the same old marketing? Is this the beginning of the blog-trend-gone crazy? Why can’t we simply understand that an electronic document is an updatable one, and get on with our [...]

  • Look! Pictures!
    Posted on 17th July 2004

    Look! Pictures!

    photos from my social circle

  • website update
    Posted on 17th July 2004

    website update

    Not quite one week after I penned “This is not your television” in an attempt to escape the confines of my visual obessions, I’m at it again.
    I read a book last weekend, and it taught me some things. For my work at Eastgate, Mark suggested that I use “A List Apart”’s reseources to surmount a [...]