Therapeutic blogging: According to a new study, nearly 50% of bloggers see blogging as a form of therapy.
Observation: I agree. I view it as therapy to help me cope with my addiction to blogging.
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September 21st, 2005
Therapeutic blogging: According to a new study, nearly 50% of bloggers see blogging as a form of therapy. Observation: I agree. I view it as therapy to help me cope with my addiction to blogging.
September 21st, 2005
I applaud the decision (or perhaps indecisiveness) of whoever was responsible for not pulling the plug on the satellite feed and to continue allowing the passengers to have the option to watch what was going on. This was an especially good decision in this case as the experts being interviewed on all of the channels were very reassuring when expressing their confidence that the plane would be landed safely. (It was.) However, I can’t imagine a more surreal experience than to be on that plane watching the live coverage. Especially since much of the time, the coverage was split-screen with other stories, or, in the case of Fox News, an interview between Bill O’Reilly and Donald Trump. If I had been forced to watch those two, I think I’d have been asking for a parachute. Remarkably, three of the passengers were employees of NBC-Universal and were in contact via Blackberry with MSNBC producers. Within moments of touching down, two of them were being interviewed by cell phone on MSNBC. Talk about your participatory journalism. According to them, some of the passengers stayed glued to the TV coverage while others ripped off their headphones after a while. If I were a passenger, I would have been watching, I guarantee it. However, I would also have been flipping over to ESPN Sports Center. And screw the FAA cell-phone rules, I would have been blogging it with my Treo. Update: Let me clarify something. Scratch the blogging. I’d be talking with my family. After landing, I’d blog. However, I’d probably still be flipping back and forth to Sports Center.
September 21st, 2005
September 21st, 2005
Rafat gets credit: Deservedly so. Quote:
For those with a WSJ subscription, the story is here.
September 21st, 2005
A Sally Field moment: Perhaps it was my volunteering to sponsor the pizza at the next Nashville blogger meet-up that did the trick, but Mr. Roboto says some really nice things about me on his blog today. Thank you, Mr. R. You’re too kind.
September 21st, 2005
Shameless gloating: I’ve never been a “team owner” before, but today I’m having a Bud Adams moment after a team from Hammock Publishing came away champions last night from the 12th Annual Nashville Corporate Spelling Bee, a fundraiser for the Nashville Adult Literacy Council. (The readers of this weblog will understand why I was not invited to be on the team.) The winning word was racanteur* but a special rexblog shout-out needs to go to the rexblog commenter “Hudge” who spelled “psittacosis.” (Later, I’ll be linking to a Hammorati weblog post about the event and to other coverage of the Bee. However, now I’m at an editorial mini-camp with some of those spelling aces and others.) *which, as Mr. R. points out was actually spelled correctly, raconteur, by the winners, proving why I wasn’t invited to participate.
September 21st, 2005
Rafat is mad as hell: (about unattributed story pilfering by Wall Street Journal reporters) and he’s not going to take it anymore. |