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The resourceful C.M. Mayo — a Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction winner, the author or editor of several books, and founding editor of the bilingual chapbook series Tameme – is preparing a panel on “Writers’s Blogs: Best (& Worst) Practices” for the Maryland Writers Association Conference. In preparation for the conference, she asked [...]

Just hanging out on President’s Day.

from the New Yorker, February 11th & 18th, 2008
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I’ve replaced my html photography page with a simple, casual photoblog.

I’m not sure exactly why, since most of my photos that I put online go on Flickr. Still, I’ll probably post a photo here every week or two.
This site, BTW, started as an adjunct to the Mercury House site that first went up in December [...]

One of the most impressive things about Google is its staying power. The life cycle of online ventures is usually pretty short. Digg, for example, is no longer as compelling as it once was, despite its inflated offering price.
Then there’s Technorati. Its ascension into the heights of the blogosphere was the result of its being [...]

For 7 Junipers, my new website on Asian Art and Culture, I am looking to make a few connections with other bloggers pursuing similar interests. If anyone knows of any good sites, resources, directories, etc., please let me know. Thanks! — Tom
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Huge, aren’t they? See [...]

Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains:
Whenever I come across a new blog I read the latest postings and, if I like those, I add the site to my news reader. I always intend to go [...]

It has become necessary for me to articulate policies that will be posted on my blogs.
Outright spam is straightforward to deal with, but here and elsewhere I am increasingly receiving marginal, opportunistic comments that, while they may appear to contribute faintly, are mainly intended to benefit the commenter through their links and anchor text. I [...]

The Extended Live Archives plug-in for WordPress that I mentioned in a previous post is not compatible with WP 2.3, because the WP file structure was changed to accommodate its new tags feature. Fortunately, there is a fix.
Conceivably Related PostsExtended Live Archives | One year agoELA seems to be a pretty good WordPress plugin. I’ve [...]

El Blogador at Inner Diablog (whose interesting posts I often consult in the context of my Buried Mirror research) cites Samuel Pepys and Jean Baudrillard as models for bloggish prose. These writers, he says, “pointed towards to a new style of writing that consciously moves out towards the edge of discussion (or the long tail [...]

ELA seems to be a pretty good WordPress plugin. I’ve never had an archives link on my blogs, because I don’t think it’s of much interest to most people. Still, one might occasionally want to check out what was going on b in the d. Extended Live Archives lets you create a dynamic archive page, [...]

At Frisco Vista

Capitola Kite Classic
San Francisco skyline from Alameda / Oakland ferry
Old De Young
San Francisco Bay Blues
Pan American Unity
Pelli Clarke Pelli / Hines: “a sense of lightheartedness”
Stuck in second
Resignation
Green flight
Litquake
The Belgum Sanitarium
P. Joseph Potocki
Lady from Shanghai
Free Days at San Francisco Bay Area museums
Rummy at Stanford
Golden Gate Bridge in the fog
Death of the Hippie
City of riches
Summer [...]

If I was still doing trade book publishing I would recommend to my authors that they try blog touring. Conventional book tours have their place, especially for developing bookstore relations and to some degree local media, but a virtual tour via blogs would certainly reach a much larger audience. The return from that audience would [...]

My sites are closed today for Labor Day (and besides, all except Frisco Vista are moving to a new server. Nothing should change for visitors, but it means I can’t update the sites very well for a few hours). Meanwhile, here’s a Labor Day message from Can’t Keep Quiet.

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I’ve been a little under the weather, and I haven’t been able to keep up very well with e-mails and comments. I hope to rebound and get caught up soon.
Meanwhile, here’s a review of August. Rightreading is command central, so this roundup gets posted on this site but not on the others (I don’t list [...]

Another end-of-month roundup of what’s going down at the sister sites.
FRISCO VISTA

Virgin Airlines
Tu Lan
Wildlife uprising, part 3
Secret List of Buildings You Can’t Photograph
Golden Gate Bridge, Sunset
Wildlife uprising continues in the city
Newsreel of 1906 San Francisco earthquake
San Francisco Magic
The Josh Kornbluth Show
Taxi fare finder
Cleaning the Bay

BURIED MIRROR

Gibson Girl
Stela B, Copan
Are we done now?
Borges [...]

Previously I wrote about how I had segmented off my Northern Californiana and Mesoamerica material into separate blogs (Frisco Vista and Buried Mirror respectively). This blog is focusing a bit more on print and electronic publishing, defined broadly to including not just publishing industry issues but also writing, editing, translating, graphic design, typography, and aspects [...]

Joe Wilkert makes some good points about book reviewing on his Publishing 2020 blog. Why do so many people like reading the reviews of books on Amazon.com? I think it’s because we all know how much tastes vary. Amazon presents the viewpoints both of those who like a book and those who don’t. Even if [...]

Swiss Miss called my attention to this excellent blog called “Strange Maps.” Many of the maps aren’t really strange, but almost all are interesting. Shown is Jack Kerouac’s map of a cross-country trip that served as fodder for On the Road.
Compare Kerouac’s map to this one, the Bellman’s ocean map from Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting [...]

Since getting back from the Yucatan I’ve been trying to catch up on my feeds. While I was gone a lot of SEO types were posting about nofollow again. The new twist is they’re trying all sorts of plugins and gadgets to selectively pass or bar following links from their blogs for PR.
People, this is [...]

You’ve seen them — the annoying little bits of bling, as Nick Wilson aptly characterized them — that pop up a little thumbnail of the page a link points to. How can you get rid of these bothersome gnats that flutter up all over blog and web pages these days? Well, you could go to [...]