Blog Archive

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Category: The Blogosphere

RedState Relaunch

Political junkies will want to be sure and check out the relaunch of RedState. Of course I am biased given that I post there and people I consider friends founded the site, but it is my favorite political site on the web. They have exciting things planned for the week ahead as well. One of [...]

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

More is less?

This makes me feel better. Should I be worried that its post date is 06-06-06? H/T Booksquare

What is a blog good for?

Absolutely nothing, say it again! I joke, I joke! The reason for the lame humor and play on classic rock anthems, is a desire to think about the blog as a form for intelligent thought (ironic no?). I don’t have time right now to get into the weeds, but I want you to be prepared [...]

Linker, Thinker, Soldier, Spy

I have been having a certain amount of angst lately about this site and what it all means. It just seems like I haven’t been making the most of it. Circumstances at work and at home have conspired to keep me from from posting regularly. And yet the pressure to post in order to keep [...]

Monday Roundup

Some places I have been visiting this morning: – Olen Steinhaurer: But then, like any successful porn star, I started to worry. – Jonah Goldberg on the “The Triumph of T.R.-ism.” There’s some good stuff in Karl Rove’s piece on TR, but this strikes me as good a moment as any to just say it: [...]

Word of the Day

I came across a great new (for me) word today via Brandywine Books: pro·pin·qui·ty Pronunciation Key (pr-pngkw-t) n. 1. Proximity; nearness. 2. Kinship. 3. Similarity in nature. ——————————————————————————– [Middle English propinquite, from Old French, from Latin propinquits, from propinquus, near. See per1 in Indo-European Roots.]

The Book Blogger Cabal

Being the investigative journalist that he is, Ed has uncovered the real story behind the rise of book blogs. This is exctly the kind of real reporting that the MSM is always complaining that blogs don’t do. Will Ed get any credit? Probably not. All kidding aside, or at least most kidding aside, this whole [...]

Time is a thief

Update: It seems someone at TAS has pulled the post. Well, at least you get the Hootie lyrics . . . Ross Douthat over at The American Scene waxes melancholic and muses about life and the impact of time slipping away: Life is beautiful, and sometimes – on Easter, for instance – the beauty fills [...]

Dan Wickett = Content Machine

One of the more tireless workers in the fields of the Lit blogosphere is Dan Wickett the man behind the Emerging Writers Network. Over on the blog he has some interesting content posted that I thought I would point you too in case you hadn’t already seen it. First, is another installment of his Litblog [...]