I am not new to social media, having been in newsgroups and chat rooms since the early 90s. I’m also not new to information overload, as I’ve always been a news junkie and a voracious reader. But every once in a while, my life changes with respect to how I give and receive information, a...

I trust everyone enjoyed their holidays. I walked all over town, watched a boatload of Dresden Files and Extras , and finished the first draft of the Ducksnorts 2009 Baseball Annual. It currently weighs in at 265 pages, so I’ll be spending the next few weeks trying to whittle that down a bit. ...

I recently saw the following article featuring an interview with one of my favorite "slave catchers", Ward Connerly. Good ole Ward is determined to end affirmative action, because in Ward's world we just don't need it anymore. A-merry-ca is so beyond that. Here is my man Ward sharing some of his tho...

The top 30 newspaper Web sites had, for the most part, a good April, according to statistics provided by Nielsen Online and reported by Editor & Publisher. The winners: DallasNews.com (The Dallas Morning News), up 88% from April 2007; OregonLive.com, surging 63% in the past year; The Politico, u...

Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… Friday links: Tom Krasovic at the U-T provides a brief overview of “Sandyball” (h/t LynchMob) — the Padres’ organizational philosophy under CEO Sandy Alderson: The club has made a habit of acquiring...