Just a quick plug to tell y’all that I’m in the Globe again today, in Adam Gaffin‘s “Blog Log” column. To see the mention, click here and then scroll down to “Not Again.” It’s basically the entire original posting, which was pretty short to begin with.
Congrats to Dan Friedell, my 1,200th visitor (at least since I started counting on September 28). Did you know I was counting visitors? Well, I am. And it’s been pretty exciting seeing the traffic that’s been coming my way over the past three months that I’ve had this site.
So, good on you, Dan, for visiting today even though I didn’t have much to say until now. In your honor, here’s a link to your site, so now all my visitors can go to your site and drive up your traffic count. I hope you’ve got something new to say …
my friend todd has started a blog,
he’s writing all in rhyme.
some people think that i slack off
but he clearly has more time.
if you want a laugh, go check him out
and see what the rhyme is all about.
but come back here when you’ve read his rap
’cause my friend todd is full of crap.
(hee hee hee hee hee)
From AdAge.com:
<< WHAT BLOGS COST AMERICAN BUSINESS
LOS ANGELES — Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs.
About 35 million workers — one in four people in the labor force — visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week engaged with them, according to Advertising Age’s analysis. Time spent in the office on non-work blogs this year will take up the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. Forget lunch breaks — bloggers essentially take a daily 40-minute blog break. >>
There’s more online if you are registered to read AdAge.com.
No word, however, about how much time workers will “waste” (and I take real issue with that word) writing blogs …
They say that everyone out there has a twin, and while I doubt this guy looks anything like me, he does have the same name for his blog: Martin’s Musings.
My proof that the only thing we have in common is the name of our blogs? He’s a married conservative Christian, with two children and one chocolate labrador retriever, who lives in Phoenix. His favorite books include The Holy Bible and his favorite movies include True Grit and The Passion of the Christ.
Thankfully, it sounds like we’re both rooting for the Houston Astros to win the World Series, so at least we have something in common …
Now I know I’m not writing Pulitzer Prize-level stuff here, but for the second time in three days, my blog has been quoted in the Boston Globe.
Today I’m in the “Sidekick” section writing about two movies I saw this weekend, Elizabethtown, which I hated, and Capote, which I loved. Check me out!
(Since “Sidekick” isn’t online, I scanned the quote; click on the image to see it bigger. And here’s a link to the first quote from Sunday’s paper.)
If you’ve read the “City Weekly” section of today’s Boston Globe, maybe you’ve seen the Blog Log written by Adam Gaffin, who runs Universal Hub. And maybe you’ve seen his reference to my blog and the posting I did on my commute into work on September 30. It’s a nice plug. Thanks, Adam.
So here we go.
A couple months before I turned 29, I came up with a short list of goals. Things I wanted to accomplish by the time I was 30.
Of course, like many aspects of my life, this was inspired by something entertainment-related — in this case, the episode of Friends called “The One Where They All Turn 30.”
In the episode, Phoebe had a list of things she wanted to accomplish before she turned 30; it included riding a hippity-hop for a mile.
My list was nowhere near as ambitious. Continue reading
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