Sandee’s not such a fan of the new theme here at MaisonBisson. Without really telling me that I should have discussed the new decor with her before making any big decisions, she does say she feels it doesn’t suit her style. There are lots of ways to resolve the, um, difference of opinion, but we [...]
Posted November 20, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: blog, dining, fashion, food, launch, nest, style. One Comment.
A comic from XKCD:
“I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world.”
“Sounds good.”
[panels showing the world's great beauty, a truly grand adventure]
“And yet all I can think of is ‘this will make for a great Livejournal entry.’”
Posted September 29, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, information behavior, internet, journaling, life, livejournal. One Comment.
Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker:
[N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style.
…transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations.
And quoting author Mark [...]
Posted August 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogging, citizen journalism, journalism, Mark Knights, Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker. One Comment.
How can I not appreciate thenonist’s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above?
The men in suits come from May 29. June 4 offers us these funny trading cards and a gallery of horror movie damsels (in distress, of course). June 5 offers a good look at sincerity among other [...]
Posted June 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blog, damsels in distress, galleries, links, quality, russian theater, thenonist, trading cards. Be the first one.
My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards:
Sun vs Dell
All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool:
http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/
How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff [...]
Posted May 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: basement, blog, blogger, blogging, cliff pearson, dell, industry analysis, link love, parent's basement, sun, sun vs. dell. Be the first one.
I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. It had sections on teaching, libraries, CRM, and web development. (Aside: why must we call it “admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing” instead of the easier to swallow “CRM”?)
The “events” are over, but everything is online, and most [...]
Posted May 2, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, conference, education, higher education, higheredblogcon, libraries, teaching. One Comment.
Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
you [...]
Posted February 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: blog, blog comment, blog comments, blogs, blogs are conversations, comments, future libraries, internet generation, libraries, library, millennials, reference blog, social internet, social web, teens, web 2.0. Be the first one.
A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. Fair point, perhaps.
We’ve all heard stories of bloggers who’ve lost jobs as a result of the content of their posts. And if you believe the [...]
Posted January 28, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: advancement, blog, bloggers, blogging, blogs, changing modes of communication, professional advancement, risk, risks of blogging. 3 Comments.
Most of my reading is non-fiction, so I depend on Bob Garlitz to keep me current with the rest of the literary world and a bit of the art world.
bob, bob garlitz, garlitz, art, literature, stylist, blog
Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: art, blog, bob, bob garlitz, garlitz, literature, stylist. 2 Comments.
Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]
Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 7 Comments.