Category: Blogs & Blogging

If things seem a little slow around here today and for the next few days, please keep coming back. For now, being Grandpa is more important than being NewMexiKen.

As advertised, the Albuquerque Sunport (our lovely little airport) has wireless service (as do an increasing number of our public libraries). NewMexiKen is sitting at Gate B10 before departing to visit three of The Sweeties.

In case you think federal judges are heaven sent, Underneath Their Robes is a great blog which provides “News, gossip, and colorful commentary about the federal judiciary.” Best is the Superhotties of the Federal Judiciary contest.

Thanks to V for the link.

Writing for Personal Technology, Thomas E. Weber discusses blogs and news readers. Among the latter, he likes Bloglines.

Here I am slacking off and within the past day or so NewMexiKen has had visitors from 12 different time zones.

A few more blogs have added links to NewMexiKen since the last update —

Burque News

the little hedgehog

Tenderfoot Diaries

Roger Ailes

In just one day yesterday, “Tami Maida” surged to the top of the search terms/phrases leading people to NewMexiKen. Sorry folks, the only reference here was for Helen Hunt’s birthday. Hunt played Maida in the 1983 movie Quarterback Princess, which was shown several times this weekend.

“Ron Howard’s brother” (Clint Howard) remains popular.

“Stupid dirty girl” is third. That’s the phrase used by California Education Secretary Richard Riordan.

It’s been a long time since Omarosa made the list.

From Wired News:

[J]ust one manifestation of a problem increasingly faced by popular daily bloggers: burnout. While they enjoy what they’re doing, many find that keeping up with the pressures to post regularly and to be sharp, witty and incisive is often too much.

NewMexiKen is rarely sharp, witty or incisive, but I know what they mean.

Several bloggers contacted for this story noted that their readers seem to look at their regular, consistent posting patterns as somewhat akin to a sign of physical health. And any break in that pattern is sometimes seen as a cause for alarm.

“I know that if I go more than about five or six hours without posting, or telling people that I’m not going to be blogging for the rest of the day,” said Reynolds, readers e-mail him and say, “You haven’t posted anything in five or six hours. Are you OK?”

A whole lot of “academic” analyses of blogs and blogging from Into the Blogosphere.

Thoughtful essay on blogging (particularly the political blogs) from blogger Tim Dunlop, If you build it they will come.

Thanks to Veronica, official daughter-in-law of NewMexiKen, for the link.

NewMexiKen left Albuquerque for Denver late Friday morning. When I checked my email after arriving, I was surprised to find a message from Jeremy Jojola of KOB-TV (the Albuquerque NBC affiliate). It seems Mr. Jojola wanted to do a brief on-camera interview on —

[W]hy you blog and who reads your site, etc. It’s going to be a fun story about bloggers in Albuquerque.

NewMexiKen was flattered but, of course, had to call Mr. Jojola to report I was 425 miles away.

The story on Albuquerque blogs ran during the 10:00 news and included a couple of views of this very page.

It’s the date on which the Continental Congress approved a resolution declaring independence (1776) — the Declaration of Independence stating the reasons was approved two days later.

It’s the date on which the second day of battle was fought at Gettysburg (1863).

It’s the date on which Thurgood Marshall was born (1908).

It’s the date on which the Air Force says a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico (1947).

It’s the date on which Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (1961).

It’s the date on which NewMexiKen’s computer continues to act up (2004). I fear hardware problems.

And it’s the date on which NewMexiKen is going off to visit one of the Sweeties (2004).

Blogging will be light (or absent altogether) until Monday or Tuesday.

Have a safe and happy Independence Day.

4,903 unique visitors (or at least unique computers) from 58 different countries visited NewMexiKen 9,808 times in June.

Thanks to Roger Ailes and Dwight Perry, today is already the busiest day ever for NewMexiKen. Thanks for coming by.

Dooce pays a nice Father’s Day tribute to her husband.

NewMexiKen has been negligent about posting links to those fine folks that link to this site. It is a network after all.

These sites have added NewMexiKen during the past month. Check ’em out:

Stephen W. Terrell’s Web Log

TinkleBelle’s Dottiness

Red Ted Keeps a Diary

Metaquerque

Annette’s blog

Others from before:

Colorado Luis

Functional Ambivalent

Howling At A Waning Moon

Latino Pundit

MakesMeRalph

mjh’s Blog

Quirky Burque

South Knox Bubba

Three Bed Two Bath (the first!)

There were 4,776 visits to NewMexiKen in the first half of June. Our goal this month is 10,000, so we’re all going to have to do a little better these next two weeks.

Top three search items so far:

• Ron Howard’s brother
• When will gmail be available
• Rating the presidents

“Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there – including many sites created by children.”

From BBC News

“Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they’re fast, funny and totally biased.”

From Time

is getting tired of politics, sports and f***ing Deadwood. I’m thinking of making the site into something more like this.

Link via Crooked Timber.

when you could be over at Body and Soul reading Generations and Ronald Reagan.

Today completes 10 months of NewMexiKen — some 2,642 posts.

Occasionally I think, “Do I really want to spend all my time doing this?”

Today at least, the answer is, “No.”