Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Git yer Oklahoma Netroots bookmark, blogroll and widget code here

This will be a temporary measure, as I hope to put something more customized together that can be collectively managed. But for now, I have used Google Reader to collect all the Oklahoma Netroots blogs I have found, and, made the list public, so anyone who wants to can enjoy.
If you’re just a reader or [...]

5 year blogiversary, or, my Thanksgiving story

I started blogging on Thanksgiving weekend in 2003. I was inspired by an Oklahoma blog I started reading shortly after moving to the state in January. That blog: JMBzine and its owner is now a friend and colleague of mine in several social service and political projects.
Of course, I have blogged very sporatically, and [...]

I’m creating the Peace Arena Activist Blog Awards

I’ve decided to bestow some blog awards to celebrate my upcoming 5-year blogging anniversary, which corresponds with Thanksgiving weekend. Since there isn’t a lot of time to prepare for this year’s awards, it will be a simple, rushed affair. So fitting!
But I’m serious about honoring the recipients, who toil in near obscurity day after [...]

Comment moderation policy

Contrary to the delusions of rightwing bloggers who troll leftwing blogs looking to stir up trouble, the first amendment does not mean that blog owners have to allow the spewing of venom on their personal blogs. I choose not to approve comments that I consider namecalling (a rightwing specialty), a personal attack, patently untrue, or [...]

Go Green, Oklahoma

Well, we can hope, anyway.
One of the blogs on the Oklahoman’s web site is “Go Green” and actually, despite my considerable reservations about it going in, it’s good. The worst thing I can say about it is that there’s not enough promotion of it in the company’s more visible operations, the dead-tree newspaper and [...]

The blog business

Steve’s take on a MSM Wall-Street-themed take on blogs. You can count on him for a reality check. To the writer (of the NY Metro feature), blog readers are simply consumers, and blogdom is designed by Christof.
He references the dotcom disaster (and before that, I remember all the hoopla about the Japanese business model, that [...]

Okie blog awards

Mike at Okiedoke is a great promoter of Oklahoma and bloggery — he’s even organizing the 2006 Oklahoma Blogger convention — so who better to institute the Okie Blogger Awards? Good thing he’s taken his own out of contention, or the rest of us wouldn’t have much of a chance.
I don’t do nearly enough browsing [...]

Blogging – It’s hard work!

I realized this week that my blog has been screwed up for almost two months. Well, actually, the blog was fine, but it was in the wrong directory.
See, I originally was going to use Mambo for The Re Collection. I set it up, found a theme I really liked, then started posting, only to find [...]

BusinessWeek discovers blogging

This is hilarious:
Blogs Will Change Your Business
..wherein you will learn such important points as “[...]we’re going to take you into the world of blogs by delivering this story — call it Blogs 101 for businesses — in the style of a blog. We’re even sprinkling it with links. These are underlined words that, when clicked, [...]