Nathan Shinagawa, I don’t write about you enough…

Remember back when I sent in that angry letter to the editor that didn’t get published regarding some comments made by Ithaca Democrat Nathan Shinagawa? Yeah, okay it was a while back.
Remember when I dug through my site statistics and found evidence of him Googling himself and finding my letter that never got published?
It [...]

Irregularly Scheduled Maintenance

In the interest of making this site easier to use (and maybe a little bit more popular) I’m making some changes:

Adding/nesting a whole bunch of categories
Sorting my old posts into them
Re-uploading and tagging my photos with Flickr (and making the lame ones that no one wants to see private).
Cleaning out my outdated links
Anyone have other [...]

The Scourge of Google Analytics

Google Analytics, for those of you who don’t know, is Google’s newest attempt at world domination new web statistics tool. It’s currently in beta and is invite-only. I’ve been using Shortstat to keep basic tabs on traffic to my site, but when I finally got an invite to join Google Analytics, I thought [...]

Color Schemes

Over at one of my online swing dancing haunts, MinnesotaLindy.com, they’re having a heated discussion about the site’s new color scheme. I personally don’t like it that much, though I’m not as virulently opposed to it as a few folks seem to be. But I’m more interested in the branding aspect of this [...]

Planet Carleton

Today at lunch a number of members of the blogging and web communities at Carleton had a great meeting (John even dubbed it Carleton BloggerCon 2006). We began to develop a plan for how to promote a unified community of bloggers at Carleton. After discussing a number of possibilities, we agreed that there needs to [...]