Via Leslie, I watched this poignant video chronicling the last month of the paper. What I was thinking as I was watching it was that the value of good reporting has never been highlighted by anyone very well. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, the “news” that many people watch and pay attention to has never been about [...]

Last week I hijacked Jim’s blog, bavatuesdays, by making a fairly innocent comment about how his top commenters were (or at least seemed to be on the surface) all men. I was not trying to claim Jim was sexist or anything (as I think Jim knows), but it’s a pattern I happened to notice and, [...]

Laura at 11D mentions the slow blogging movement. My dear friend and colleague, Barbara Ganley, was featured in this article on Slow Blogging, which is oddly in the Fashion and Style section. What’s up with that? I’m kind of a medium blogger myself, though some days (like today, for example), I find enough time and [...]

On Friday, I gave yatob*. We were the last panel and so, with time compressed, we went straight for the demo, skipping the slides altogether. It’s actually nice to know a topic so well to be able to speak almost extemporaneously on the topic. I had prepared well, though, so it didn’t matter that the [...]

Yesterday, I sent a link to my faculty of the “Top 100 Liberal Arts Bloggers.” I recognized quite a few of the names and thought that it might make interesting summer reading. I, in fact, billed it as such–like beach reading. I got a response pretty quickly from someone saying that he/she was disappointed that [...]

I had the great pleasure today to talk to students in Anne Dalke’s “Emerging Genres” class about what it is I’m doing here at Geeky Mom. I was preceded by my esteemed colleagues, Kate of Syllabub and Tim of Easily Distracted. It’s a tough act to follow since their writing is so much more polished [...]

Sorry to have disappeared like that. We’re digging out from under the chaos that was created during the great flu epidemic. I had to do things like laundry and grocery shopping–whee! Plus, I spent time playing games and watching tv instead of blogging. It happens. Something about illness in the house makes your brain go [...]

Since we’re losing our right to freedom of speech, it may not matter. A Plain Dealer blogger was fired because of pressure from a politician. This is just sad. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

A federal court says so. The determining factor, the court said, was not any kind of title assigned to the blogger ahead of time or the format, but the content of the writing. Booya! Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Kathleen had a post a couple of days ago that resonated with me. I, too, have been thinking about what blogging here is doing for me. Like Kathleen, I do think it’s still important to me, but currently misguided. She says this of her own blogging: When I started, it was all about a need [...]