Monday, December 13, 2004

I've been using my Yahoo homepage as a  newsreader for several blogs for a while now -- it provides one-sentence summaries of new posts, a great way to see what's happening in the 'sphere from a single point of entry... ...you can monitor this page and other local blogs from your Yahoo homepage, too, start by clicking on "add content" and then typing the name of the blog into the "find content" box. I'm getting healthy traffic from Yahoo these days. 9:00:39 AM    comment []

Greensboro101 has a redesign up, solves some problems, maybe too much work to see the blog updates now, or maybe I'm just not used to it yet. In any case, let's give Roch credit -- he's designing this thing live, listening to the users, this is the second version in just a couple of weeks -- so tell him what you think, and help make this the most useful and user-friendly page it can be. 8:40:27 AM    comment []

ACC Hoops asks if Coach K is the best coach of the post-Wooden era. I like the headline about tonight's Wake game in Philly: Baptists go to Temple. 8:35:13 AM    comment []

Diary of a Soldier is a new blog, written by a Greensboro resident now training for deployment in Iraq. The soldier emails his reports to his friend Patrick Eakes, who posts them at the site. An early post: "Things at Ft. Bragg are going well - same old Army, hurry up and wait." My dad used to say that, he learned it when he was in the Army. 8:26:58 AM    comment []

Thigpen is blogging in office, as promised. Sounds like the damn Berlin Wall came down. Guilford County's new Register of Deeds reports on serious stuff (rebidding a tech contract) and important stuff (female employees no longer required to wear panty hose) but my favorite line involves his redecorating plans: "The entire office needs a little 'Queer Eye for the Staight Guy!', or I need X-zibit to 'Pimp our Office.'" Blogging newspaper editor. Blogging elected official. Blogging alt media. Guilford County is blog country, baby. 8:22:19 AM    comment []

N&R editor John Robinson on why the paper would run my column about online alternative media, even though it trumpets the arrival of some new competition on the local scene. 8:13:41 AM    comment []