It has been eight years since i started this blog, basically as a way of trying to figure out how to develop and explore some political ideas and perhaps also deal with a period of political and personal isolation i was going through. It “worked”, and provided a space not …
As some of you may have noticed – those kind few of you who may still check in here – Sketchy Thoughts has been somewhat comatose for the past months (!), and not for the first time. A while back, Nate, over at the What In the Hell blog, enumerated …
Many of us on the left, either as individuals or on behalf of organizations, have tried our hand at blogging. For myself, as someone who maintains several websites, a longtime frustration has been that the energy i am putting into the blog does not automatically get integrated into what else …
Well with the coldest winter in a several years it’s certainly not spring – but it is cleaning season for me. Cleaning up my websites, cleaning the blog, looking after the little details i should have been taking care of over the past year, except this book i was helping …
i’m a third of a way through my most recent copy of my fave magazine, and came across an article by Jessica Wapner (“The Healthy Type”, Scientific American June 2008) about the therapeutic effects of blogging. Alice Flaherty, a neuroscientist at Harvard University, is quoted explaining that “humans have a …
Aaaaaaaarghhhh! Too many days with too little time to write too many things… And now another week has come and gone. While am not sad that i have stuff to do in life – the alternative would be depressing – there is shit i wanted to be able to discuss, …
What a relief! Late last week blogger’s “robots” decided Sketchy Thoughts looked like spam. Consequently, the blog was “locked”, meaning i could not publish anything. The blogger site assured me someone would check the blog out, and if it was legit it would be unblocked – but otherwise would eventually …
It’s up, it’s working, it has peekaboo expandable posts and soon will get revamped categories… oh yeah, and it’s baby blue. So far, for what it’s worth, this transition from Blogger Classic to Blogger Beta has been anything but seamless. Twenty minutes my ass, there goes half my day. And …
Please bear with me… In one of those moments of “i have twenty minutes to do stuff, what should i do?” i decides to upgrade to the “New Blogger”… So far i see my “Read more…” links aren’t working properly, and the “Blogger for Word” plug-in is acting up. And …
Worth checking out: this posting “Some thoughts on the M-L corner of the blogosphere”…