Category Archives: Bloggers ‘n blogs

Diffusion

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 1, 2010

Sometimes I need to post links from my browser tabs just to clear the board. Here they are, various trails I’ve wandered down in the past day or two, kicked out of the webulous undergrowth by email, tweet, blogs, or the FB soc-net: Hack the Planet, wait for the announcement that only a small tactical [...]

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Twas me, and you, our thirst, indelicate

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 31, 2010

A sonnet by Sarah Gilbert and Mara Collins Sarah Gilbert (“mama, military wife, writer, cooker of inconvenient food, photographer of life, finance geek, keeper of chickens, beginning farmer”) posted a poem called oil leak: a sonnet. The final couplet: ‘Twas me, and you, our thirst, indelicate gulping, our leak, our spill, our oil-stained foot. It’s [...]

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Blog, blog, blog

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2010

I can’t write here, I can’t write there. I’m stuck in some kind of Seussian tech-warp. Lacking motivation, time, energy and talent, still I soldier on. If I can’t keep this blog current, the reasoning goes, then perhaps I shoule build another blog that will be better, fresher, more engaging. For instance, Class War is [...]

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Facebook, environmental disaster, and the unending war

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 14, 2010

There has been quite a bit of energy given to the matter of Facebook privacy and customer relations lately. Some friends are pulling down accounts. Bill Meloney drew the curtain on his Facebook account on May 1. A few others are quietly disentangling themselves and may make public announcements later. I have spent way too [...]

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RSS feed

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 10, 2010

There comes a time every year or two when I screw up my feed settings terribly. In fairness to myself I must add that sometimes it’s Feedburner’s fault. Sometimes their instructions are opaque, and in one instance while they were being digested by the Google borg they actually hosed up my feed themselves. Really. So [...]

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Cathy Erway

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 27, 2010

Cathy Erway, the author of The Art of Eating In is in Madison this week preparing meals with friends and spreading the word that we can benefit from getting in touch with where our food comes from and how it’s prepared. Cathy’s blog Not Eating Out in New York sports the tag line “Consuming Less, [...]

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Twas Bileg

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 28, 2010

‘Twas brillig and the slithy tothes, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. –Lewis Carroll Goo goo g’ joob… –John Lennon (Has anyone else noticed that “Slithey tothe” is sort of a slant rhyme with “slimy toad?” Of course, toads aren’t slimy but verisimilitude be [...]

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The way to Carnegie Hall

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 7, 2010

Tamar Jacobson blogs at Mining Nuggets. Today marks the beginning of her sixth year practicing the blogger’s art. Congratulations for staying the course Tamar! I understand your feelings when you say, This morning, as I look back at the very beginning of blogging, I feel as if it has been more than just five years. [...]

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