Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

LA Times critic, Richard Schickel doesn’t read blogs. But he gets to whine about them: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or […]

From my recent release, www.bloggingblunders.com

I just released a new set of video tutorials – if you’re a Digg user, please digg it. http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Top_5_Blogging_Blunders Reddit user? Same thing: http://web2.reddit.com/info/1sepy/comments

I was tooling around Google video and found this video of Google-guy Matt Cutts.

From Metafilter: Most images the Smithsonian is selling, including photos of artifacts and historic figures, are not protected by copyright, Malamud said. But the Smithsonian site carries copyright notices and other warnings that would discourage most people from using historic images that should be publicly available, he said. The bigger issue: Malamud testified last year […]

This is why we have to distribute stuff through PDFs or HTML. I had one of the Word documents up on my screen when my son starting toying with the computer mouse. Somehow, inadvertently, he managed to pull down the “View” menu at the top of the screen and select the “Mark up” option. If […]

Big congrats to Scratching and Sniffing, a project brought to life with the help of Yvonne Divita. Short, exciting note to all my Best Buddies — Scatchings and Sniffings, my petblog, is scheduled to be the Typepad Featured blog this Thursday, May 17th. Hope you’ll stop by and say hello. We’re planning something fun!

From Oprah’s site after a woman decides to dump her cancer treatment: “The medical community, as we know, have been able to perform what some people call miracles,” Oprah says. “And while you’re taking advantage of that, think as positively [as you can]. Think about attracting healing to yourself, think about the goodness that the […]

SFB referred to me as natty. I thought that was bad. It isn’t: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/natty nat·ty (nÄ?t’Ä“) adj. nat·ti·er, nat·ti·est Neat, trim, and smart; dapper. I think I was concatenating Natalie from Facts of Life with the word nappy (as in old sweater all nappy and you have to use a safety razor to remove all […]