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Tag: About Me

  • Mary Meeker, Entitlements, Wikipedia Drift, and Why It Takes Me Three Hours to Write a Blog Post

    Mary Meeker, the early Internet visionary who endured derisive criticism when she (correctly) predicted that Ebay’s stock would soar to more than $400*… No, that doesn’t sound right.  Off to Wikipedia to refresh my memory. I’m a huge Wikipedia fan, btw, and I have no patience for whining complaints to the effect that “Wikipedia isn’t […]

  • Never Forget

    This annual post was first published two years ago.  It is dedicated to the men and women of the United States armed forces, and to every firefighter who has ever run into a burning building — 343 of them in particular. The name of this blog comes from something that English statesman Edmund Burke apparently […]

  • Darwinian Selection in the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM

    Big cyber-news today in Maplewood, NJ, the place one blogger once called “the center of the blogging universe.” The New York Times abruptly shuttered The Local, its New Jersey experiment in hyperlocal blogging.  I’ve chronicled the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM here, here, here and here. Instead of just shutting down, the NYT is passing its baton to […]

  • Shameless Self-Promotion: Episcopal Edition

    I just realized I haven’t bragged about this yet.  It turns out I’m an award-winning writer. .

  • What Distinguishes Valid Self-Promotion from Spam?

    Active bloggers get used to seeing comments along the following lines: I wanted to thank you for this excellent read!! I definitely enjoyed every little bit of it. I have you bookmarked your site to check out the new stuff you post. Or: This post is beyond awesome. I am always wondering what to do […]

  • My International Consulting Practice

    Melisa Antic is building a business based on helping English-speaking expats relocate and settle in to living in Belgrade.

  • “Hide the Decline”: Birth of a Blog Post, and Credit Where Credit is Due

    If you think global warming is probably "settled science," but you’re willing to read one article to give skeptics a chance to change your mind, read this remarkable indictment, published all the way last Tuesday, while the pixels of the original leak were still quivering.

  • Never Forget

    The events of 9/11 were the legacy of more than two decades of doing nothing, or next to nothing, in response to attacks from fascists in Islamic guise.

  • Recovering from a Hacker

    You can’t currently use certain internal links on my blog successfully, because of a hacker.  Any blog using a non-current version of WordPress software is vulnerable to this hacker.  See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/307660?replies=1 for more info. There should be a special place in hell reserved for computer hackers… Update: This now appears to be fixed — a […]

  • How “Blue” is New Jersey — and for How Long?

    I market my blog as the musings of “a red-state voter in a deep blue state.”  It’s a catchy line, and it lends itself to a jazzy 125×125 logo — created by the Web Goddess, naturally. But sometimes I’ve wondered if New Jersey really is as “deep blue” as, say, Massachusetts or Vermont.  (I’m sure […]