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In case you haven't noticed, I've mostly quit blogging. And I'm only blogging right now because I handed out my business card at...

There comes a time in every blog's life where the blogger has to decide whether to keep it going or to abandon it. Or, in my case,...

When iGoogle went away, I lost track of the personal blogs I used to read on a regular basis. (It  was easy to see which blogs had been...

Why blog? This is a question I've asked myself recently whenever I guiltily remember that I still have one. It's certainly not for...

I wrote a blog post in my dreams last night. It was so eloquent, so urgent that it might have been reposted and tweeted hundreds of times. W...

This blog has been on a temporary hiatus as I deal with several projects and money-making responsibilities that have hit me all at once. I d...

My recent absence from this blog coincides with the new "look" that Blogger rolled out for Blogger Dashboard (its blog editor) ...

I was excited recently to discover that Yahoo still maintains a Web subject directory (which, ironically, I found via a Google search); even...

In a post last February, "On getting free HBO for a month," I described the HBO program "Real Sex" and made the startlin...

I know, I know, bloggers are supposed to keep their posts short—somewhere between a tweet and the length of one computer screen. But some we...

OK, so I'm a little behind, and maybe everyone already knows about this, but I think it's cool—it's a Wordle* representation of ...

I got this strange email today: This is Shiela from hp-ink-cartridges.org. We stumbled on your blog while searching for Hp Ink Cartridges...

This is my first post that is here mostly to offer links to sources on a particular topic. (See previous post for more info). Although I co...

I've been collecting links and articles over the last several months on topics that interest me, particularly those that I keep meaning ...

After I published my Popularity post (in which I lamented that stupid videos on YouTube can claim a million viewers in a matter of days whi...

An alternative title for this post might be “ And then there was one ” because I am shutting down my other, remaining blog, Quotes About Cre...

If you’re looking for a theme or commonality among the people I’ve interviewed for this blog so far, it’s pretty simple—they are all people ...

Although I vowed in a November post ( Blog site counters—or spyware? )  that I wouldn’t use Sitemeter here, not long afterwards I added it ...

Apparently, it seems, to the Web, and to the blogosphere. Recent news stories have been describing news reporters who have started their own...

The first few weeks of a blog are like a new love affair—you want to spend time with it every day. And then the relationship sets in and the...