“Another week goes by, kicking and screaming, with a plastic bag around its neck.” -Hank Harrison (when told that these quotes are posted on the blog, he further commented: “There you go. That way nobody will ever see it.”)

Some of the more cutting edge alt-weeklies are posting stories to their website as they break — a great way to deal with news that breaks on inconvenient dates for our print schedules.

Great research tool, this. Google has launched a beta version of a localized Google search. Searching, for example, funerals and San Antonio, Texas gives me a list of yellow page entries to the left of the screen, and a list of websites to the right. Both lists were very accurate listings of San Antonio’s funeral [...]

In my never-ending quest to get a decent Google ranking, I discovered that my site has now been tagged a “liberal-leaning blog site” in the Google directory of blogs. Meaning, of course, that that description has replicated itself all over the web. But to some advantage — I found LauraFries.com listed as one of the [...]

“ALTERNATIVE WEEKLIES BUCK NEGATIVE TRENDS, SAYS JOURNALISM STUDY Source: Journalism.org An increase in outlets for journalism has meant static or even shrinking audiences for most news sources. The only sectors experiencing growth are “online, ethnic and alternative media,” according to a report issued today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report also said [...]

“We are entering an age where every citizen will have the means to speak her mind in a public venue. Weblogs are the voice of the people, connecting millions of individuals to their own audience on a daily basis. But what does this communication sound like? Radio Vox Populi is a realization of the people’s [...]

Good advice

“It’s as quiet as a mouse, peeing on cotton.” – Hank Harrison

Last month, President Bush’s Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called America’s largest teachers’ union a “terrorist organization.” Why? Because the union had the gall to insist that President Bush live up to his own promises to adequately fund education. Please sign our petition demanding that President Bush fire Secretary Paige.    http://www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1 This is typical [...]

Mother Jones seems to think that labs and labs full of scientists working on top-secret biodefense projects could actually be a bad thing. Suggesting that perhaps a race to develop the deadliest bioweapons is actually a scary thing for human nature. And that perhaps, we won’t be able to control our own experiments: ” In [...]