From the Team McCandless Facebook Page:
“[Because of censorship] Coach Mac has tendered her resignation and as far as we know, no effort was made to retain her in this position. The job has now been posted as open for the next school year. Several students on both the newspaper and the yearbook staff considered resigning [...]
Posts under ‘Blogging’
A message to the students of Timberland High School
Judge Orders Breitbart Brat Home to Mommy and Daddy
Co-conspirators Stan Dai and 25 year old WingNerds Gone Wild video producer James O’Keefe seen leaving the courthouse in a photo that O’Keefe did not have a chance to tamper with before I could:
After getting caught messing with the phone lines in Senator Landrieu’s Louisiana office, even videoing his and his co-conspirators with their pants [...]
Fire Geithner. The momentum builds
The NY Post has a devastating article detailing Geithner’s “damning string of mess ups” that go back 16 years.
Naked Capitalism
There is a growing consensus that it is time for President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. While he is at it, he needs to clean house by firing Larry Summers, by banning Robert Rubin [...]
Automate putting blog content onto social networking sites
How to get your blog content onto Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed using free services.
I had been using the excellent and free Twitterfeed to autopost to Twitter but just switched to WP to Twitter, a WordPress plugin. Here’s why. Twitterfeed reads the Polizeros RSS feed and takes about first 120 characters of new posts, adds a [...]
Blogger jailed for being annoying to police
WaPo
It should not be a crime to annoy the cops, whose raid on Ms. Strom’s house looks more like a fit of pique than an act of law enforcement. Some of her postings may have consisted of obnoxious speech, but they were nonetheless speech and constitutionally protected.
She can’t make bail, and may have to stay [...]
Dear WordPress
In many ways you are wonderful, but you really need to think about how you release new versions of WordPress. We’ve had, what, two emergency versions in as many weeks, due to security vulnerabilities. But that’s just part of it. WordPress 2.8 was released June 10, 2009. We are now up to 2.8.4 So, that [...]
WordPress plugins Polizeros uses
I’ve been updating the WordPress plugins that Polizeros uses. One reason is to prepare for upgrading to WordPress 2.8.2, as there was a flurry of anguished posts on WordPress forums about how the upgrade bonked their blog.
Most of the time it was because of incompatible plugins or because they didn’t deactivate the plugins before upgrading. [...]
Should I quit blogging, asks Problogger
Problogger responds to the “Is blogging dead” meme that Steve Rubel and others have been posting about.
I get the sense from a lot of bloggers that they feel that they’re being left behind – that all this new stuff that is emerging is beyond them – that it’s hopeless to keep on blogging. My message [...]
How to spread blog content to social networking sites
Feedburner. Make your RSS feed highly useful
Use Google Feedburner for your main feed and comments feed. RSS is how content moves around the web. You don’t have to understand RSS to use it, as setting it up is easy.
Lots of people, including me, read much of their news in a RSS Reader rather than going [...]
Blogs are out of beta, but bloggers should always be in beta
Steve Rubel on how social networking sites and lifestreams are the next indicated thing.
The image above is one of the most important graphics I have ever seen. In fact I stare at it every day on my desktop to remind me that a) there will always be shifts in media and b) one format never [...]
Is blogging dead?
Jon Buscall
So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging.
Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual, my own take on this is simple: don’t abandon your blog – just yet.
The primary reasons are [...]
Mark Cuban: Who cares what people write?
Could something be published hundreds, if not thousands of times on the net and be read by no one? Fewer than 100 people? Fewer than 100 people that you care about? The answer is yes.
Mark Cuban says amateurs just spew stuff all over the web in an attempt to be noticed and are mostly ignored. [...]
WordPress refused to submit to China censorship
In 2006 the government of China suddenly blocked Wordpress.com from their country, thus cutting off 25% of their traffic. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg soon learned China would unblock the blogs if WordPress would block specific words and phrases, as well as giving info on users to the government.
Mullenweg refused. Too many CEOs of other companies [...]
How Twitter and Facebook now compete with Google
Mark Cuban
For the 1st time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google. The total number of people coming to my blog is increasing. The percentage of people who find it via Google is declining. Significantly.
This trend will only continue and is probably not reversible. I increasingly use [...]
Twitter Search seems faster and more accurate than Google
Increasingly I’m using Twitter Search rather than Google to research topics and find things to blog about. It’s decidedly more real-time and the results are topical and useful.
