I haven’t been blogging much lately for a variety of reasons, but I still receive a lot of solicitations to put up blog posts for all sorts of entrepreneurs thinking I need content. The last thing I need is content – it’s the overwhelming quantity of content I have to put down in writing that…
A beer to the first person who remembers where that description of this blog came from and when, without clicking this link.
From NPR yesterday: A blogger wrote to Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz to say he was doing an “expose” on “journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover.” A photo showed Schultz hugging Sen. Sherrod Brown. Schultz replied, “I am surprised you did not find a photo of…
Stories don’t get any better than this one, Susie Porter, who once ran the Town Fryer restaurant, is heading off to college — at the age of 54, and the fact that I actually have a teeny connection to it (Bloggapalooza 2006) – enough that I cried three times reading the story and again while leaving…
Last night, I live-tweeted for about three to four hours as the New Hampshire primary returns came in. You can go to Twitter.com and search on #blogher #nhprimary or just my handle, @jillmz. You can also read this nice wrap-up post of coverage at BlogHer and I’ll be writing my wrap-up of the primary and…
I do a lot of micro-blogging these days – posting tweets (@jillmz) and sharing links to articles and other information via Facebook. Although I love this blog and blogging, I’m finding it nearly impossible to make the time it takes to post the way I like to, for purposes of a blog. Enter Writes Like…
I can’t say I blame them, but I also have to say that they’ve turned me toward local blogs I’ve never heard of before. Many thanks to Fresh Water Cleveland, whose managing editor is Douglas Trattner, known to locals and regionals from his many years of writing about NE Ohio. I only came to know…
And WLST is hanging in – thank you to everyone who has been voting daily. You have through midday Monday to keep doing so. It’s EASY – just go here and click on the thumbs up. And, as always, thank you.
I’ve been featured before, and left off before, and while I can be a great competitor, I do try to stay grounded away from listmania – but it is nice, now and then, to learn and have it reaffirmed that I’m not just writing for myself (though I do wish I was writing even more…
From this The Moderate Voice thread: Dear Jill, Please write only posts that I say are ok for you to write. I am personally incapable of ignoring a post which I do not find informative; you must fix that. Thanks, roro It was written to me in sarcasm – and totally in context – and…
