Year: 2013
2013 In Review
WordPress likes to send out a year-end review to all their JetPack users. Most of it is routine statistics I can find anywhere, but a few items are amusing. On my busiest day, my most popular post was “Yet Another Tale of the Awful, Awful People at ICE”. I think this line captures the essence… Read more
10 Books, More Or Less
There’s a meme of sorts going around, the rules to which are: “List 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, just the ones that have touched you.” The rules don’t specify fiction, but that’s how most people… Read more
Why I Hope Peter Schiff Gets Painful Rectal Itching
So I got this press release thingy at my blog email address: From: Peter Schiff <[email protected]> To: Mark Draughn Subject: Peter Schiff on the People Threatening To Murder Him I have no idea who Peter Schiff is, but I was curious what he did that would lead to death threats, so I read on… While… Read more
When Press Releases Rule the Media
I just noticed that Matt Haiduk posted a complaint a few weeks ago at his Kane County Criminal Lawyer blog about how often news stories about crime are based on nothing but press releases: If you read a newspaper article and don’t know what’s going on, you’d think a newspaper reporter was sitting in a… Read more
Freebies, Part 3 — It’s Not All About You
Because Tim Kreider‘s writing is the gift that keeps on giving, I’m writing a series of posts in response to several issues that he raised in his op-ed in the New York Times called “Slaves of the Internet, Unite.” In Part 1, I discussed how trading free work for exposure isn’t always a con: Sometimes… Read more