https://maisonbisson.com/tags/blog/ Recent content in blog on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:38:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nest-the-softer-side-of-maisonbisson/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:38:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nest-the-softer-side-of-maisonbisson/ 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. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-make-a-really-great-blog-post/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:27:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-make-a-really-great-blog-post/ Another great comic from XKCD: “I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-just-have-to-go-do-the-work/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:28:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-just-have-to-go-do-the-work/ Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker: https://maisonbisson.com/post/trading-cards-and-horror-movie-brides/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:49:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trading-cards-and-horror-movie-brides/ How can I not appreciate thenonist‘s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above? https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-from-basements/ Fri, 12 May 2006 19:17:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-from-basements/ My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards: https://maisonbisson.com/post/higher-ed-blog-con-and-other-things-i-should-have-posted-about-last-month/ Wed, 03 May 2006 02:41:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/higher-ed-blog-con-and-other-things-i-should-have-posted-about-last-month/ I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-web-is-not-a-one-way-medium/ Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:28:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-web-is-not-a-one-way-medium/ 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: https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:56:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/ 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. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-go-to-guy/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:50:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-go-to-guy/ 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. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-hater/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:52:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-hater/ 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. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-value/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:11:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-value/ The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-and-blogging/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:30:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-and-blogging/ Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_geocode-plugin-for-wordpress/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:57:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_geocode-plugin-for-wordpress/ I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more. My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. https://maisonbisson.com/post/editing-wordpress-pages-via-xml-rpc/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:51:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/editing-wordpress-pages-via-xml-rpc/ WordPress‘s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linking-bias/ Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:57:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linking-bias/ Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces-2/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:15:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces-2/ I stumbled upon captnkurt’s Information Nation where he popped a link over to Eric Myer’s Stereotypes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/organizationalinstitutional-blogging-done-right/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:27:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/organizationalinstitutional-blogging-done-right/ Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-blink/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:47:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-blink/ Stealing from Corante/Copyfight: It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-features/ Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:37:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-features/ UPDATE: bstat has been updated. bStat is a hit and search term stats tracking plugin for WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/libdev-launched/ Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:43:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/libdev-launched/ LibDev launched today. From the Welcome message there: LibDev is a site for those interested in libraries and networked information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-progressive-and-conservative-bloggers/ Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:16:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-progressive-and-conservative-bloggers/ David Rothman points to a Daily KOS story that points to a MyDD story titled “Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating. https://maisonbisson.com/post/throwing-google-a-bone-for-cliff/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:54:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/throwing-google-a-bone-for-cliff/ Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-and-conservative-pals-out-spreading-more-slander-and-libel/ Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:24:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-and-conservative-pals-out-spreading-more-slander-and-libel/ Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it.