You may have noticed a few extra boxes over on the right for Sponsored Links and an offer to buy advertising. It's true: a year after we thought about it, we're sellouts. Don't worry: I don't feel any particular obligation to appease advertisers and the money is just a way for us to enjoy a […]
Filed under: Website, Blogging on April 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I'm ashamed to admit that our website is powered by really ancient software. WordPress 2.1.3 was released way back when we did our server move about a year ago and it has kept our site chugging along ever since. Recently, WordPress 2.5 was released along with some news: if you don't upgrade, Technorati may […]
Filed under: Geek, Website, Blogging on April 9th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I want to extend a special thank you to Lyall Swim and The Sutherland Institute for hosting a blogger's breakfast this week. It's a rare thing indeed to get access to well-known pundits and higher-up elected officials and the conversation with Lt. Gov. Herbert was very enlightening. Here's what I took away from the dialog:
The […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah, Blogging on February 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What separates blogs from passive content is the ability to comment and counter-comment on any written article. These comments often serve to illuminate the reader and allow him or her to add to the discussion, providing clarification, counter-points and all kinds of additional information. These systems only work when maximum participation is encouraged.
There's some sure-fire […]
Filed under: Politics, Blogging on September 2nd, 2007 | 10 Comments »
As of August 9th, this little blog has been going for a year. Since then, we've built up from nothing to over 1500 unique visitors dropping by over 4200 times a month, moved from a dinky secondhand server on our cable modem to a real hosting provider and posted 316 times (including this one) amassing […]
Filed under: Website, Blogging on August 15th, 2007 | 17 Comments »
I've added a few new features over the last few weeks that I hope will prove helpful in finding nifty stuff on our site and participating more fully. For about two weeks now, I've had the Subscribe to Comments plugin installed and running. This plugin will send you an e-mail when someone responds to […]
Filed under: Geek, Website, Blogging on July 7th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
News organizations have long been in a contest to see who could report news before who. In the process, a careful balance is struck between trying to deliver fresh content and waiting long enough to verify sources and let the story play itself out for a bit. Still, it seems that the information age drive […]
Filed under: Politics, Blogging on June 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
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