Friday, June 13, 2003

John Cohen will speak and play music at the Weatherspoon Museum on Friday, June 20 at 7 PM. It’s an intro to his photography show, which opens at the museum next week, from the man who inspired the Grateful Dead's “Uncle John’s Band.”   Meanwhile N&R writer Mark Brumley calls the recently expanded Richard Petty Museum “Randolph County's answer to Elvis Presley's Graceland.” 2:07:07 PM    comment []

Ryan Irelan has some advice for weblog evangelists: “Get your heads out of your asses.” 8:52:22 AM    comment []

Mark Tosczak is pondering ways to make money as a weblogger if you aren’t Andrew Sullivan. “I think if you ran a focused blog like a trade publication, and thought of it as a publication, and more than just a blog, that you might be able to make an OK living.”   He’s onto something – some of the most interesting weblogs are the ones written with a tight focus and deep expertise. No reason you couldn’t brand that and sell it.   Similar logic suggests another possible income-producing weblog strategy, touched on by InstaPundit, who notes that OJR’s article on city-blogs overlooks the possibilities for weblogs that cover smaller markets. Local news in blogform, written with deep knowledge of the community and no production costs -- hey Mark, wanna start one up? 8:38:36 AM    comment []

The textile industry – what’s left of it – wants help from Washington. Sorry, Bush won’t help you, fellas, you already live in solidly red states – not like the steelworkers he gave breaks to last year. The real question is, what are your senators doing? I’ll address a part of that question in Sunday’s newspaper column. 8:33:34 AM    comment []