It's News to Me

My friend Jane Hascall's husband Benny, who is only 60, suffered a stroke on December 6th. Fortunately he is recovering at one of Colorado's finest rehab facilities, the Craig Rehabilitation Center in Englewood, CO. With the assistance of Benny's daughter, Katie, Jane utilized one of that facilities' excellent services to create a web site where she posts updates on his condition. That way, his friends and relatives can be kept current about his progress by subscribing to those updates or just by periodically visiting the site. This solution is so much better than Jane's having to send out periodic emails to a distribution list.

Keep reading →

This may be in my future ...

Keep reading →

While visiting Carole here in Georgia for the New Year's holiday, I only have access to the Internet through a dial-up connection, and boy am I reminded of how thankful I am for my connection through Comcast. Dial-up access is agonizingly slow! It helps me understand why Carole is less enthusiastic about accessing the Internet than I am, even taking into account the differences in our level of experience with being online. The occasional problems she may experience caused by clicking on the wrong link are far more difficult to recover from than they would be if she had any kind of reasonable broadband connection. As they say, «you don't appreciate the water until the well runs dry.»

Keep reading →

My son, Mike, chastised me, quite rightly, in a comment he left to my last post, pointing out that I hadn't made any posts here since the 21st. As I explained to him in my response, just because I'm not posting to this blog that doesn't mean that I am not posting to the web. In fact, I often post quite a bit more, though less original content, on my the blog at my Bloglines account that I call «My Reading List.»

Keep reading →

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.

Keep reading →

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.

Keep reading →

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. 

Keep reading →

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.

Keep reading →

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.)

Keep reading →

I see that Mike has already added the description of the agenda for the November Knoxbloggers meeting. Good for you, Mike. It looks like it might be an interesting meeting, because it deals with almost everyone's favorite subject -- making money. Check it out, and come and join us if you can. It could prove to be 2 hours well spent.

Keep reading →