Category: Blogging

Well, send Rannie to SxSW. Same thing. Please help!

Though I haven’t posted that much about it yet, I’m incredibly excited to be attending South by Southwest for the third time this year. I’m sharing a room with the fabulous Josh Benton and we’ll probably be staying at the jazzy new Hampton Inn. If you’re coming, or are just interested in SxSW chatter, come on over to SxSWBlog and join in the buzz.

That crazy Brad is doing something funny that should be copied by everyone: he’s got a running total of the number of spam email messages he’s received so far this year. If anyone can find the humour in this incredibly annoying problem, it’s Brad. As of today, his count is at 1,638. I hope he’s not counting that email I sent him last week…

Well, I’ve done my civic duty and nominated some of my favourite weblogs for the Third Annual Bloggies. I’m such an old-timer that I was actually nominated the first year for “Best Kept Secret Weblog.” Not winning that seems to have reinforced that status, and now I’m hoping for some sort of Thalberg Award for “Whatever Happened To…Weblog.” Sort of a Lifetime Underachievement Award or something. Consolation Champs, after all…

But the nomination deadline is now past. Check back after January 21 to vote for some excellent weblogs.

LazyWeb is a fantastic idea. You post an idea for some programming project that you’re too lazy (or in my case, stupid) to implement, and let others have at it. This is what I was hoping for a few months back when I pined for Library Wish Lists. Within minutes of posting this on LazyWeb, I had two new comments, one from the brilliant Clay Shirky directing me to a very recent article on the subject, and another from a programmer actually working on a solution! Wonderful!