The Hoff notches his 14th consecutive save last night for the Brewers, Red Wings back in action tonight against the Pens, and mother nature still has the temperature turned to “Early Spring” instead of “Summer” here in Milwaukee…
- If you’re going to run a weblog, turn on comments. It’s kind of the whole idea behind weblogs… that readers can challenge you or post feedback on what you’ve written. If you can’t take the heat of defending the argument you’re placing on the Web, keep a diary next to your bed instead. Lobbing verbal hand grenades is easy and cowardly when you don’t allow any feedback on your weblog.
- I’ve been unfollowing people on Twitter at an alarming rate lately. As with anything new, the signal to noise ratio is a problem. But spamming twitter with news stories (Fox 6, looking at you) or the same plug for your PR company over and over (Rad!) isn’t really capitalizing on the medium, it’s exploiting it, and not in a good way. And as I said a few months ago, “Tweeple” who tweet about twitter is as boorish as bloggers who blog about blogging.
- While I’m on the subject of twitter, the trend of certain people forcing a prefix on everything with “Tw” is annoying. Just like the fascination of the late 90′s of prefixing everything with “E” (E-pets, E-toys, E-conference, E-banking!) Tweeple, Tweeciprocity, Tweetpresentative., Twsenator? All twannoying.
- And lest I sound like I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and offer nothing but criticism, kudos to the city, county and state politicians who came together to come to an agreement on the County Grounds sale. Even if I don’t agree with the outcome, people on opposite sides of the aisle like Sen. Jim Sullivan and County Exec. Walker deserve credit for showing us that they can work together to get things done.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
