End O' The Year Bits- December 28, 2007 Happy New Year! Just a few days left in 2007. This is just a collection of random notes I've had floating around this week. Right now only 1 story on the NYTimes most popular stories page is about Bhuttos death while 7 out of 25 are on the Yahoo! news page, and none on the Google most popular news page. Seems strange, eh Last weekend almost all the posts were items I had saved in my feed reader for posting later. Overall it was a very different weekend, the majority of the posts where very...http://www.lisnews.org/node/28700 Worst Headline I've Seen All Year... By Far- December 21, 2007 Mama Spears book on parenting aborted from the Boston Herald.http://www.lisnews.org/node/28626 Some Thoughts On LISNews Topics And Readership- December 13, 2007 I sent an email to the super secret and exciting Authors-Only list this morning and I thought it might make a somewhat interesting blog post as well. I've been told several times over the years LISNews is great because you never know what you'll see next. That's why I like it so much as well. If this was Blake Carver's LISNews I would've gotten bored years ago. LISNews is a bit of an oddity because of the way it's run and what it runs on. We're a collaborative blog where everyone is welcome, so.http://www.lisnews.org/node/28539 Write More Matter Less- December 12, 2007 It's rare that I write random blogger stuff, so one of my resolutions for next year will be to write more. Though I think that was actually a resolution for this year too! But then the more I write, the less it will matter, though now that I think about it, what I write matters little now, so I guess it doesn't matter that it will matter less. So here's a collection of random bits: On LISHost: The lisnews.org domain got hit by a monster joejob yesterday. The resulting bounces numbered in the...http://www.lisnews.org/node/28522 |