Category: Blogs & Blogging

. . . I published my 15,000th post and quit blogging.

I unquit on April 19th, six weeks later.

And here I am 4,065 posts later.

. . . for I have sinned. It has been 3 weeks since my last confession.

No, wait! That’s not what I meant to say.

It has been 3 weeks since my last VACATION.

Blogging will become sparse as the week goes on.

There have been numerous updates to the previous post, Are we there yet?. Those updates won’t necessarily show up in your RSS feed.

If you care.

No blogging until at least February 5th.

Yesterday, number three page for visits: Ron Howard’s Brother

Today, so far, number two page for visits: Ron Howard’s Brother

Yep.

Blogging will be sporadic until January 16th.

Let’s keep it going . . . see you in 2011.

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* Last week I was at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, including the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

As the linked article is about stealing off the internet — and the consequences — I’ll have to count on you to go read it at Regret the Error in their post about the year in media errors. Here’s the gist:

Gaudio’s was apparently a timeless piece of writing because it was reworked and published under her byline in Cooks Source, a small American culinary magazine. Slight problem: Gaudio had no idea her writing was being reused. She emailed the magazine to express her disappointment, and the ensuing response from editor Judith Griggs has become the stuff of Internet legend.

So you can get your comments in now, be advised that this blog will be on a computer-less vacation from Friday noon through December 18th.

I published 1,031 posts during the six months June-November.

This blog is seven years old today.

That’s about 91 in blog years.

That’s an average of seven blog posts a day, seven days a week for almost seven years.

I’ve decided to give up the blog and write a series of blockbuster best-selling novels instead.

I don’t want to give too much away, so let’s just say it will be about a blogger and his struggles with zombie commenters.

Comments should be moderate in tone and avoid ad hominem attacks. You may ridicule ignorance all you want by pointing it out, but please avoid ridiculing the ignorant. Their burden is heavy enough.

You will be limited to an arbitrary number of comments a day. Twenty-eight, for example, over a three day period is abusive. If you have a point, get to it.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. No firearms permitted on the premises.

The Management

John Cleese: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
Michael Palin: Yes, but that’s not just saying ‘No it isn’t.’
J: Yes it is!
M: No it isn’t!
J: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
J: No it isn’t.

Two years ago, when I also posted about the house divided speech and Geronimo, I asked if you all wanted me to re-post those kinds of entries year-after-year. I received 14 comments, pretty much all saying yes.

Most of the time I don’t want to do this anymore.

It’s my intention to continue the R&R I’ve already begun for another week or more.

It’s spring break for NewMexiKen. Back in a week or so.

Maybe I’ll add a link or two here along the way if I see anything I don’t want you to miss. For example, Timothy Egan is good today.

The URL newmexiken.com is six years old today.

(The blog itself began seven months before that.)

“So my semi-educated guess is that Ree Drummond’s gross revenues are between $800,000-$1.3 million a year.”

Ree Drummond is the blogger The Pioneer Woman. The line is from an analysis of her ads and traffic found by dangerousmeta!, who was following up on my earlier post about top 25 blogs.

I ran across this while looking for something else. Can’t find a date but I thought it was interesting anyway.

Top Blogs

1. Talking Points Memo
2. The Huffington Post
3. Lifehacker
4. Metafilter
5. The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan
6. Freakonomics
7. BoingBoing
8. Got2BeGreen
9. Zen Habits
10. The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
11. Crooks and Liars
12. Generación Y
13. Mashable
14. Slashfood
15. Official Google Blog
16. synthesis
17. bleat
18. /Film
19. Seth Godin’s Blog
20. Deadspin: Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion
21. Dooce
22. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
23. Said the Gramophone
24. Detention Slip
25. Bad Astronomy

Most Overrated Blogs

1. TechCrunch
2. Gawker
3. Jim Cramer’s Blog
4. PerezHilton.com
5. Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1879276,00.html#ixzz0iHRBiW5N

It is so very easy to goof on figure skating, and the athletes who compete in it. The sport virtually begs you to do it. When it’s not being utterly campy, it’s being utterly corrupt. It is equally easy to goof on American TV’s apparently inexhaustible ability every Olympiad to ladle on the pathos like syrup, as though real life was the 99-cent special at IHOP.

But I do not believe that there is a single athlete in these Olympics tougher than Canada’s Joannie Rochette. Her mother drops dead on Sunday. She skates through her practices. She goes out last night and skates well enough to place third in the women’s short program. I have no idea how she gets out of bed in the morning, let alone how she’s done all of this, but I know which way I’m rooting come Thursday night. Pixies be damned, this is as gutsy as it gets.

Charles Pierce – Boston.com