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Mary Meeker, Entitlements, Wikipedia Drift, and Why It Takes Me Three Hours to Write a Blog Post
2 comments on Mary Meeker, Entitlements, Wikipedia Drift, and Why It Takes Me Three Hours to Write a Blog PostMary 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.…
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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…
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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…
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Shameless Self-Promotion: Episcopal Edition
I just realized I haven’t bragged about this yet. It turns out I’m an award-winning writer. .
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My International Consulting Practice
Melisa Antic is building a business based on helping English-speaking expats relocate and settle in to living in Belgrade.
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“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,…
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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.
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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…
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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,…