I’m sitting in a coffee shop with friends, working on an article about Christmas Carol CD’s (I’ll link you up when it appears).  I just had to take a little blogging break, though, to capture a bit of the atmosphere here.
We’re at Sacred Grounds Coffee Shop, which is actually part of the Quality Inn and [...]

I’m feeling a strong need to say something.
I’m deeply troubled by some of the political posts I’ve been reading.  These posts are on blogs I subscribe to via RSS, because the normally non-political content interests me.  I believe these posts are spreading incorrect information, but I’m also troubled by the level of anger and fear [...]

Today I attended the excellent conference/unconference WordCamp Portland, and was amazed.
Like at most conferences, the networking and learning opportunities were terrific.  I came away with several resources and ideas that I will use on my blog (look for a new theme soon), and I was very happy to meet many people in person for the [...]

Portland is one of three finalists to host the BlogHer 2009 summer conference.  Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case thinks this would be a great opportunity.  So do I.  Do you?  Amber’s setting up a database of people who would like to help promote Portland as the location for BlogHer ‘09.  Go sign up!
If you want to [...]

I do a lot of social networking online.  Probably not as much as some people, but quite a bit — Twitter, Facebook, a few Ning networks, a little bit of MySpace, several e-mail lists, and a fair amount of reading and commenting on blogs.
I’m really not very social in the flesh, though.  I suppose that [...]