PJNet

Here it is: 2.0 Style Networking in 1.5 Days, at SoCon07 starting Friday night February 9, 2007, right here in my hometown of Marietta, Georgia and then working its way up to the Kennesaw State University campus on Saturday, February 10. I am helping host it, and we are calling it “the first social media [...]

After a couple of drubbing emails, I provided updated information at the Media Bloggers Association. Then right after wards I got transferred to this annoying message at the main blog site:

An AP story went out on the wire today (Dec. 22, 2006) discussing efforts by the MBA to “professionalize” (their word not ours) blogging.
(Robert) Cox [...]

So the Volvo ad starts out with asking if you love their new car or hate it — the latter instance has a stick figure puking. You get to click on all kinds of very quirky stuff. And of course, whether you love it or not–or know it or not–the name Volvo C30 is getting [...]

Lisa Williams, the founder of H2otown, has started Placeblogger, a sited devoted to online sites that chronicle hyper-local experiences and news. Here I will let her explain:

Placeblogs are sometimes called “hyperlocal sites” because some of them focus on news events and items that cover a particular neighborhood in great detail — and in particular, places [...]

I remember very well the first time I heard Don Murray’s name. It was 1975, and I was sitting with Stephen Dobyns, the poet and novelist, at the kitchen table in my in-laws’ farmhouse in North Sandwich, New Hampshire. Dobyns, whose parents owned a house just down the road, listened as I told him how [...]