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Op-ed fills void: The Courants op-ed page filled a void in 1976 and still does – Courant.com
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Politics, Social Media, The Web on October 23, 2011
I found this article by Colin McEnroe in the Courant today be be especially on point. Blogging regularly and making insightful commentary is a difficult exercise. While writing a post like this is rather simple, involving a quote and a few thoughts hastily thrown together, the truly insightful and interesting stuff requires more research and multiple drafts. I know it’s unlikely that people notice this blog considering the frequency of the posting is irregular, but I still consider it worth the writing practice.
I spend a lot of time out in the Digital Disneyworld, and I dont see much breadth or depth of opinion writing. Many blogs are spottily maintained, and few argue a point for more than 50 or 60 words. The Connecticut blogosphere often looks like chaos in Genesis 1:2 — formless and empty with darkness over the face of the deep.Theres a lot of “stuff,” but not much rises to the level of an opinion piece on an op-ed page. There are noteworthy exceptions such as Don Pesci, who publishes damn nearly daily on his conservative site “Red Notes From A Blue State.” Ezra Pound he is not, but Pescis posts usually go on for at least a few hundred words of essayish prose.I could name seven or eight Connecticut sites where somebody, on a regular basis, writes recognizable commentary, but no more than that.
via Op-ed fills void: The Courants op-ed page filled a void in 1976 and still does – Courant.com.
Getting into Google+
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Social Media on July 17, 2011
I recently acquired a Google+ account. I think its a nice meld of features from Facebook and Twitter. The idea of being able to follow people and place them into circles where I can hold different discussions is great. This avoids the problem of posting geeky things that my WPI friends enjoy but my fellow law students do not care about or vice-versa. The downside is that we may be creating more of a filter bubble than we previously had. I think the one nice thing about facebook was the idea that it forced us to see each other as full people instead of merely a co-worker or merely a classmate. We may be mitigating the problem of employers possibly seeing the pictures of us drinking but we are not solving the problem of employers expecting their employees to not have fun or be social people outside their jobs. The greater transparency championed by Zuckerburg may be doomed.
I still have yet to explore all the features of Google+. It does not have all my friends from facebook or twitter in it. I wish there was a way to import them. When I discussed this with my friends they suggested that it was unnecessary because everyone was already on facebook. That just demonstrates the power of incumbency and defaults. I do not see Google+ as having additional cost other than the time to reform my contact lists. It’d be nice to have a feature to import my history from facebook, twitter, etc. for archive purposes but unfortunately those companies do not have that option.
The Torrington Register-Citizen Wins
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Social Media, Technology on March 25, 2011
via Digital First
I Promised – You Delivered – The Checks Are Cut
By jxpaton
Folks,Take a bow – you did it!
Our goal was to hit $40M in profit in 2010. Well you did better than that – you hit more than $41M. Not bad for a bankrupt, beat up old newspaper company people had written off as dead in 2009.
I don’t know what blows my minds more:
1. That this “dead” newspaper company innovated like crazy to revive itself in such a short period.
2. That a CEO decided to share the success with his employees. (Serious leadership there)
4. That the paper turned $41 million in profit!
5. That this happened in Connecticut.
Automatic Posting from MyLeftNutmeg
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Social Media on June 27, 2010
I have installed the WP-O-Matic plug-in and so now my posts on the MyLeftNutmeg blog will be automatically imported into the homepage. Their titles will link directly to the posts on the MyLeftNutmeg site but you will still be able to see them here. Hopefully it will keep this site fresher and allow the political posts to get a little more circulation online.
Moved to WordPress
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Social Media, Technology on June 27, 2010
After reading about WordPress 3.0 and discovering how many more features it has (including an application for Blackberry) I decided to ditch Drupal and move my website over. The process was fairly painless, especially using the one click installer from my new webhost, Dreamhost. The process included deciding on a new theme template. I will probably stick with this theme for now until I have time and creativity to design something of my own.
Great Video on Entrepreneurship Online
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Social Media on May 12, 2010
From Gary Vaynerchuck the creator of Wine Library. Worth watching if you are considering starting a business online.
Sage Advice
Posted by Matt Zagaja in Law, Social Media, Technology on May 9, 2010
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history — with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” — US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals via ABA Journal
