Instead of reading this blog, do yourself a favor and devote whatever time you might have wasted here to reading Hugh MacLeod's How to be creative instead. It is funnier, wiser, and more eloquent than anything I could ever write. And if his way of thinking tickles your fancy as much as it does mine, subscribe to the RSS feed for his blog.
Yesterday, Mike and Cheryl went with Cheryl's Mammaw to visit the grave of her husband, Eugene Doyle (Pappaw), who died this year. While there, Mike captured this photo of these two headstones that we noticed at Pappaw's funeral. They are very near his grave site and hard to miss.
As audio, video, and digital picture files have grown in size, the problem of how to share them with others has become more of an issue. ISPs and Email systems like Gmail impose a limitation on the size of file attachments, which is usually in the neighborhood of 10 MB. It is quite easy to exceed that limit with the files most of us are now creating.
You'll note that I've added a new plugin, developed by Alex King, to my WordPress installation. It is the «Share This» link at the bottom of each post. With it, you can easily add the post to your favorite social bookmarking system or send it by email to a friend. It is okay to click on the link to see what it does if you like, because you can close it afterwards without taking any of the actions. Just click the «close» option in the upper right hand corner.
Exhausted from a long day of work, late last night Victor passed along a link to an informative article in The Economist, called «Going Pro.» He asked that either Mike Neel or I share it with the rest of the Knoxbloggers group as a follow up to his presentation last Wednesday.
Victor Agreda did a fantastic job of sharing his experiences in monetizing his blog at tonight's meeting of the Knoxbloggers group. And he gave us several useful tips about how we might follow his lead and do the same with our blogs. It was, to me, a very interesting meeting.
One of the websites that I follow through it's RSS feed is Mediashift by Mark Glaser. In yesterday's entry, he reports that last Friday in Berlin he participated in the jury that selected the 15 Best Weblogs in the World for 2006, or «the BOBs» (Best of the Blogs), from among the 5,500 that had been nominated from all over the world. His entry explains the various categories from which the winners were chosen and the difficulties attendant with doing so. The competition is sponsored by the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
I can only say that it's good to know that other people's youthful photos are as embarrassing as mine. This picture was posted on Flickr by Dave Winer.
When I began using Firefox 2.0 as my browser the other day, I needed to replace Flock's «My News» to keep track of the RSS feeds that I monitor. I chose to subscribe to Bloglines. It is «a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.» (That quote is from their help file.)
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