Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Just a quick note that I have updated the WordPress blog software that runs this site to the latest version.

You shouldn’t see much of a difference, if any. It went well, for once. Continue Reading…

[Photo above from a earlier rally, not today!]

I was driving on Transit Road in Amherst today and saw a sign that just caught my eye. There was a website URL on it that read “7newsunfair.com” and I wondered what it meant. I went by it so quickly that I didn’t see what the sign was referring to or if there were any people around with it. Traffic was busy enough that I just couldn’t rubberneck any more, so I remembered it for later.

So I checked it out and found a story you won’t see on Eyewitness News. Continue Reading…

I’ve done it. Again. Against my Luddite inclinations, I’ve joined yet another of the latest-greatest web social networking services. Twitter.

After hearing about it over and over and over and over, ad-nauseum, from every talking head on the TWIT network (This Week In Tech, no connection to Twitter) I was curious about Twitter.

My friend, Scott Leffler does a call-in radio show and recently started taking comments via IM, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. I was going to suggest Twitter to him, not as a substitute to those, but well, it sounded like something he’d find useful, but before I could, he announced that he had joined Twitter on his website. Continue Reading…

Is blogging journalism? They seem to think so at the Buffalo News. The News runs Buffalo.com, a web portal as well as their own site for the newspaper, buffalonews.com. They also run a public free blogging site called Your Hub as well as a photo sharing site called spotted. Both of the latter are pre-packaged “solutions” that are simply customized for their use, mostly by adding the word “Buffalo.”
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