From Ars Technica’s “Douchebag” blog post costs senior her student council seat: “Calling someone a douchebag on the Internet usually doesn’t result in much in the way of major consequences. That is unless, of course, you’re in high school and the douchebag in question is a school official. In the case of Lewis S. Mills [...]
From WinExtra’s’s Are bloggers becoming your new news anchors?: “Where bloggers can be the most useful to their readers…is by learning how to use all the social tools available to us and basically act as a filter…We in effect become their news hub. We might be one of many but at some point they have [...]
September 25, 2007 – 12:04 pm
From the Seattle Stranger’s article, Game Over: “On August 31, Jessica Zenner was driving her 3-year-old son to day care when her BlackBerry rang. It was the human resources director at Zenner’s work calling to tell her she was fired. The cause, Zenner says, was because her bosses at Nintendo discovered her personal blog, Inexcusable [...]
September 20, 2007 – 11:56 am
This will probably be gone by the time you click on it, thanks Comedy Central’s horde of copyright protectors, but you should check out Stephen Colbert laying the smack down on people like me. Good times. [UPDATE: If that doesn't work, you can try watching it through Comedy Central's crappy motherload player.]
September 18, 2007 – 11:46 am
Talk about a quiet summer and early fall here on Fluid Imagination! Geezum crow.
When you compare the number of posts last summer (June, July, and August) to this past summer, it’s kind of ridiculous how slow it’s been around here, especially when you factor in the notion that last summer I was the only one [...]
April 27, 2007 – 11:26 am
From The Blogosphere Is Standing Still: “The Blogosphere has stopped expanding. While the total number of blogs has been increasing, this is largely due to people creating a blog, then realizing that they have nothing to contribute, and then abandoning the blog. The number of active blogs on the other hand, remains largely unchanged, and [...]
Posted by Jesse over on Servin’ it Up “Dawn [FI Readers: yep, that Dawn] and I run the Office of Service-Learning & Sustainability at Green Mountain College — i.e., we get to hang out with the cool kids. We’re going to use this blog to keep you posted on happenings from our office. So if [...]
February 6, 2007 – 02:36 pm
From The Wall Street Journal: “Most self-employed bloggers take in between $2,000 and $10,000 a month from ad sales, says Henry Copeland, founder of BlogAds.com, a Web advertising concern based in Carrboro, N.C. The few that have huge audiences make significantly more, he adds. During election time, for example, a political blogger can bring in [...]
December 1, 2006 – 06:00 am
I’ve mentioned before that I am currently managing a reconstruction of my employer’s corporate website. One of the new, “Web 2.0” type thingies we’ve decided to include is a corporate blog, not because we want the site to be trendy, but because it will give us a key advantage over our competitors. We will now [...]
September 12, 2006 – 12:26 am
Though I didn’t write the welcome message until two days later, on September 12, 2005, Fluid Imagination moved from TypePad to Wordpress. We were with Typepad for just over a year (we launched Fluid Imagination on August 9th, 2004), and by the time a year rolled around, I felt that TypePad was too constraining for [...]
Now Hearing