All That Is Necessary

Tag: About Me

  • A Tip for Business Owners Navigating in a “Jobless Recovery”

    The economy is sending mixed signals — which at least is an improvement over just a few months ago.  Newsweek reports today that “the Fed has become both more optimistic and more pessimistic,” with GNP expected to recover slightly more quickly than previously expected, even while unemployment creeps slightly higher.  The term “jobless recovery” is […]

  • It Turns Out Today Is My Blogiversary

    It must have been embedded in the recesses of my memory, because something just made me check the archives.  It was one year ago today that I made my first substantive post on this blog.  (The first of a handful of frivolous posts was more than five years ago.) I led with a snarky prediction […]

  • May 15 Is Writers Worth Day

    My friend Lori Widmer is a seasoned writer and blogger, and a tireless advocate of better pay for pixel-stained wretches everywhere.  Five days a week she offers brief, cogent (and well-written!) advice to writers and would-be writers on her blog, Words on the Page.  She has an active commenting community of fellow writers who chime […]

  • “The Practice of Civility is Important to Democracy”

    Mad props to Michael Gerson, who in today’s Washington Post brilliantly articulates the concept I was struggling to develop in my recent post, “Don’t Blame Me for Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You for Michael Moore.”  (Disclosure: Gerson did not actually consult with me, and may not have realized he was writing this on my […]

  • Don’t Blame Me For Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You For Michael Moore

    Parts of the rightosphere are in high dudgeon about the fact that President Obama, at the annual White House Correspondents Association yuck-fest dinner, laughed at “jokes” told by “comedian” Wanda Sykes about wanting Rush Limbaugh to die of kidney failure.  (Here’s a 78-second video.) There have been days of arguments at “the Id of Conservatism” […]

  • A.T.I.N Has a New Look and a New Address

    After a lot more effort than I expected, I’m pleased to unveil version 2.0 of All That Is Necessary. For those who care about such details, I’ve migrated my original Blogger blog to the WordPress platform, hosted on my personal domain, kirkpetersen.net. (I’m .net because kirkpetersen.com, no relation, had already been snapped up by a […]

  • 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 […]