Morning Glory
July 13th, 2008
I’m not sure why, but I’m really proud of this photo. I took it today in the blackberry bramble at the farm.
in which Tiff rants about social media gaffes
July 8th, 2008In the “starting to catch on but hasn’t quite sussed it out yet” department, Mika has gone and gotten himself a shiny new Wordpress blog, but his people haven’t implemented it properly- they’ve got comments and moderation turned on as if they expect comments, but you have to be registered to post one. Which would be fine, except they’ve got user registration disabled…. making the whole thing prettier, but with less functionality, than his Myspace page. But what’s worse, the design suggests features are available which have in fact been turned off.
FAIL, tech people. FAIL. If you’re good enough to convince a Europop sensation to pay you to redo his website, you could at least redo it correctly.
(And really, they’d be better off using Flickr for the photo galleries, but that’s a whole other rant.)
Chthulhu Reads The Classics
July 7th, 2008
Posting this one because I think my brother will find it entertaining. Who knew the Elder God was so erudite?
the soap opera of local blogging
July 6th, 2008The news about We <3 DC breaking off from DC Metblogs is starting to spread, and of course, there’s lots of extraneous discussion about who behaved badly, whatever. I left a comment on one such entry, but in the event that it doesn’t make it out of moderation, I’m posting it here:
A couple of factual quibbles:
*All* the erstwhile DC Metblogs authors decided unanimously to form We <3 DC, not just the six who posted- some chose not to post a goodbye, and some were not given the opportunity. The authors chose this, as a group, in order to preserve ourselves as a community of writers.
Secondly, the insinuation that Metblogs handed us a loyal readership that we are now exploiting demonstrates a misunderstanding of the way the Metblogs network functions. Metblogs “corporate” handles network-wide things like hosting, branding, deals like WAP browsing through Winksite, etc. The cities themselves are largely autonomous and the responsibility for audience-building mostly rests with the writers for each city. The Seattle writers build their audience, the NYC writers build theirs, the Karachi writers build theirs, etc. DC was one of the original Metroblogging cities- there was no “loyal readership” to speak of when DC Metblogs launched four years ago, and there is no loyal readership now except that which has been collaboratively developed between the DC authors and Metblogs.
We look forward to reading what the new crop of DC Metblogs writers produce, and are confident that our readers understand that there’s more than enough room in DC for DCist, DC Metblogs, We <3 DC, The DC Feed, DCeiver, etc.
A new project.
July 4th, 2008After nearly four years, it’s now time for me to leave DC Metblogs. But you can still catch my musings about life in the capital at We <3 DC. Check it out- we’re really proud of it. Many thanks to John Athayde for the kickass design, and to Paulo for implementing it for us.
We’re still squishing a few bugs here and there, so come kick the tires with us!
wanted to share…
June 25th, 2008
It’s our 80s prom picture! Notice that neither of us felt the need to go all 80s for it… I swear, some of the things those people had in their closets were positively terrifying.
links for 2008-06-25
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June 20th, 2008-
Barack Obama has the Declaration of Independence tattooed on his chest. Upside down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.
links for 2008-06-16
June 16th, 2008-
I made this cake with some of our strawberries, only I used chocolate ganache instead of icing to frost it. OMG NOMNOMNOM.