First upgrade on the new frontier

New blogging platform. First occasion for upgrading the software. Many fears. Breath held. How did things go?

Well…you’re reading this, aren’t you?

Thanks, perfect stranger

You can find just about anything on the web by accident. Even timely succor.
Failure doesn’t stop me from blogging. In fact, I prefer the failure of a blog post to the failure of a newspaper column. Back when I was a columnist and reporter, I had to wait days to redeem myself from a [...]

If (lastStraw) then (WordPress)

WordPress is in, Movable Type is out. As promised, the obligatory “Goodbye, Movable Type” post, composed with a small but appropriate level of bitter regret.

Serendipity, sort of: New blog at the Post-Dispatch

A couple of weeks ago - and in the wake of a ranking of top blogging newspapers by NYC prof Jay Rosen and his grad students - I wrote my own quick critique of the blogging efforts of my town’s own daily, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I also posted a link to the critique at [...]

Blogs at the Post-Dispatch: Good, or bad, or what?

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then…they copy you? Where weblogs are concerned, the newspaper industry has decided it’s better to incorporate than to attempt to extirpate. Blogs are increasingly in at newspapers these days, but what to make of that? Old wine in new bottles, a new [...]