Listics
Blog URL http://listics.com/
Tags networking, politics, social media, blogging community, writing, reading
My blog has 62 categories, from Arts and Literature to Writing, with plenty of peace, politics, and opinion in between. Written mostly from my home office on a farm north of town and about 20 minutes from the Capitol steps.
Latest Blog Posts
- Friday Follow on Nov 21, 2009 in Blogging and Flogging Writing good blogs twitter
Over on twitter there is a practice known as Follow Friday.” Twitterers craft tweets and often tag them with the characters #ff (for Follow Friday). If you show up on a Follow Friday list you know that at least one twitterer likes your tweets,...
- Divestiture on Nov 19, 2009 in Bidness Government conflict of interest public utilities
At a time when the excesses of American industry scream for some kind of regulation and control, Comcast wants to buy NBC/Universal. The purchase flies in the face of network neutrality and will, if permitted, allow Comcast to control the content tha...
- Raw milk freakyosis on Nov 18, 2009 in Environment Farm Almanac Friends brush mower good food locavore raw milk
Scott Trautman has a problem that affects all of us. State authorities are forcing him out of the dairy business because he wants to sell raw milk products. Early in the summer the Trautman’s had an open house. I stopped by to see their operati...
- Leader of the Pack on Nov 18, 2009 in Dogs Farm Almanac dog training
She ain’t no Toto She ain’t no Lassie She ain’t no Rin Tin Tin But she does have a high degree of self-importance. Combine that strong personality with a great sense of humor, a little arrogance, limitless energy, and an assertive n...
- Word of the year on Nov 17, 2009 in Verbalistics
“Unfriend” The slackers at the Oxford University Press USA, they who prepare the superfluous New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen “unfriend,” a louche locution from the world of social media, as the word of the year. I h...
- Web versioning on Nov 16, 2009 in Journalism Journo Web Publishing CJR journalism criticism slow news versioning
Ethan Zuckerman refers to Dan Gillmor’s slow news advocacy here, and he extends the concept to journalism criticism, the stories about stories that critics write. His post traces the update history of a recent story about a story that dominated...
- Hunh? on Nov 15, 2009 in Tools
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