Random Articles

• Katie Couric Steals Bloggers Pen “They pulled me out of the auditorium and told me that they’d become aware of the fact that I had a blog, they said, ‘We don’t want you to participate.’” Wow. Big Media just keeps giving us reasons to ignore them. UPDATE: and, according to this New York Times article on the event, we are ignoring them
• Tyler Cowen Mostly Cloudly on Cumul.us Ben and I have been exchanging late-night previews of our respective side projects for a while now. The idea behind Ben’s project - Cumul.us asks, can we turn the weather into Wikipedia? (Wisdom of the clouds - hehe). Will we get better weather predictions from it? Dunno. From what I’ve seen of the site, it’ll be
• RE: Blogger Sees Red Over StarTribune’s Lack of Citation As if I didn’t have enough reasons to grumble at the STrib - a reporter doesn’t credit their sources. Coincidentally, on a story covering questionable ethics. “Come on, Jackie. You called me about this on Thursday afternoon. We discussed the story, I pointed you to sources where you could find more info, including the email of
• We’re Selling Our House in St. Anthony Village, MN We’re starting the listing at $189,900 and if you’re interested drop Sam a line. This place just isn’t big enough for the 3 of us. So, we’re moving on. If you’ve followed this blog, you’ll know the backyard is great for watching movies off the laptop and recording podcasts. Bamboo flooring on the first floor, new
• Congrats to the Doodledees We had dinner with the Familia Doodledee this weekend, first time in the new place. Quite enjoyable. Quite comfortable. Good people. Congrats.