Okay, so I'm doing a little housekeeping, moving files into my 2006 archive to get ready for the shiny new year that is 2007.
Now, in the course of a normal day, I run into a bunch of things that I might want to blog about, usually (but not always) because they're current events that have some sort of blogging angle to them, so I put them into draft files. They just start out as an URL and a title; if something has legs, I'll add descriptions, analysis, etc. and turn it into a full-fledged blog entry.
I usually end up with a lot more stuff than I can actually use. Something may not be as good of a story as I first thought, or maybe I just don't have time to write it up properly.
After a while, stuff can go stale, or have already been talked about enough that I don't have anything new to add. So it just drops out of sight.
Sometimes I'll get to a "things I didn't get to write about this month" entry, but usually not.
Well, here's a dump of a bunch of things I didn't get to blog about last year, with minimal editorializing (I pulled out the broken links and completely irrelevant stuff) -- it's pretty random:
January
* Jason Kottke on Digg's Editorial Selection Model
* Company Blogging: CNET on Why companies monitor blogs; the McDonald's Blog (via Blogspotting); Why Companies Should Blog (via Marketing Begins at Home)
* Congress finds the value of blogs (via Slashdot)
* Removing earwax with a SuperSoaker (via Metafilter)
* How to BlogSafer if you live in an authoritarian regime (via Craig Newmark -- the Craig of Craigslist)
February
* "There is no blogosphere" -- A debate on whether blogging was the victim of overblown hype. Some perspectives: The original article (via Poynter); "Twilight of the Blogs" (with some reaction from the Washington Post); "A Blogger is just a writer with a cooler name."
* Continuing: The Wall St. Journal weights in on the blogging is dead/no it isn't debate (via Slashdot)
* Why the user name "null" is a bad idea (also via slashdot) -- hint: it's the equivalent of having a license plate that says NO PLATE
March
* The TV Show 24: The JackTracker, tracking Jack Bauer's movements in 24 (via Dave Barry's blog); Jack Bauer's 24 Kill Count; 24 coverage in TVgasm and TV Squad; Jack Bauer's VCR.
So that's the first quarter. A random mix, yes? You should see the stuff I left out.
Should have a few more parts tomorrow.
Thanks -- Joe
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Man... I should go through my slushpile. I think there's a few Magic Smoke things in there I wanted to pick apart like the small, bitter, little man I truly am.
-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/
DO NOT use a Q-tip in your ear. Helen
Sometimes I have links that I want to share but they just sort of sit somewhere. Then before I delete and just forget about it I'll do an entry of nothing but links. Usually I try to post them on a weekend -- for those with boring weekends and wanting something to do. Then I move them over to my links journal for everyone to have a chance to check out when they have the chance.
Now instead of fowarding all those cute emails I have a journal where I post them. I can still share the funny stuff but now no one gets mad over a full mail box.
Kathy
Jeez, where good ideas go to die.
OK, I looked at my "slush pile" and these were the first five things listed:
Pro-Gay Wrestlers
I Love It When Streisand Says the "F" Word
Disney is So Gay
Lesbians Love Batwoman; Does Batwoman Love Lesbians?
What Would Jesus Blog
Here's to what coulda been.
FYI Alerts appear to be down.. and you get the gateway error when trying to set up a new journal and get their alert for new post .......
GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRR
thanks
d
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