All That Is Necessary

Month: March 2009

  • Live-Blogging the Tuscan Road Water Main Break

    As the crisis unfolds, the Avellino Waterproofing ad appears as a cruel joke… mocking me. About 6:05 a.m., Eastern DAYLIGHT Time — The Web Goddess reports no water pressure at any upstairs faucet. “I hope we don’t have a burst pipe in the basement.” Yoicks!! This would have to happen on the very morning that […]

  • Seaman Recruit Harry Kirk Petersen, United States Navy

    The other day I sat in a restaurant and watched my son become a man. Harry recently bailed out of college. He was in the third year of a five-year construction management program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and he hated the place. He had been working at the Philadelphia Housing Authority through Drexel’s co-op […]

  • Step Aside, NY Times — Patch Is Bringing Google Zillions to Hyperlocal Maplewood

    I got interested in the hyperlocal Maplewood BlogolopolisTM because the mighty New York Times was wading into the fray (and I happen to know the local Times reporter). But it turns out the Times is only the SECOND-best capitalized hyperlocal effort in Maplewood. The newcomer to watch is something called Patch.com. I barely noticed Maplewood […]

  • Looks Like A.T.I.N. Is Going Hyperlocal For A Little While

    I’m going to have a followup post later today about Patch.com and (I hope) the Maplewoodian, but in the meantime I want to call attention to Alan Wolk’s fact-filled post about the NYT launch. I may have gotten my post up sooner yesterday, but he’s done a lot more research. His post starts: One suggestion […]

  • Maplewood NJ, Pop. 23,000, Now Has Four FIVE Competing Local Websites

    (Don’t miss my followup post about the true 800-pound gorilla of the story. Also, I tweaked this post’s headline and added a substantive Update at the end.) Suddenly the Maplewood hyperlocal web neighborhood is crowded. The mighty NY Times today launched two local websites, each staffed with a full-time, veteran Times reporter. One site is […]

  • Think Twice Before Having Fun on Facebook

    (I subsequently wrote a followup to this post.) (Insert cruel joke here about my apparent IQ) I love the Internet. For starters, I met the Web Goddess on an online divorce support group. Thanks to the Internet, I have been able to pontificate on this blog to an audience of literally dozens of people who […]