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Blogging and Fatherhood

December 14, 2008 by Dave!

I’ve wanted for some time, since the birth of my daughter really, to blog about my experiences as a new father.

I think writing in general provides a path to clearer thinking and new ideas. That’s been my experience with blogging in general. However, in blogging about fatherhood, I also wanted to create a running diary of the changes I’m going through as a new father and the changes my baby is going through as she’s growing up.

That’s where the problem comes in.

I’m pretty open about my life here on the blog. I do reserve intimate details about my personal life and I rarely blog about work (I said I was open, not stupid). I don’t mind because, well, it’s my life and I’m in control of it.

However, when it comes to blogging about my daughter, I’ve been very conflicted about it. I don’t want to expose her life on the Internet in the same way, for a myriad of reasons.

First, it’s not my life–it’s hers. I don’t want to say things that, while true, might needlessly embarrass her. Second, I don’t want to expose her to, well, the Internet. Whole lotta creeps out there. Third, I want to be able to be completely honest, and not worry about censoring myself because of who might be reading the blog, or because she might read it someday accidentally.
For all those reasons, I’ve decided to blog about my baby and fatherhood anonymously. Or at least, as anonymously as anyone can ever really be.

I’ve set up a new blog under a pseudonym where I can blog about my family. In fact, I’ve already got two weeks of posts up over there. I’m not going to link it here (duh). I know that someone, with enough effort could probably track it down and link it to me, but for the most part, there’s nothing that links it with me here.

Now, if you know me and are interested in reading it, send me an e-mail and maybe someone will send you a link. Otherwise, continue to read about me, my rants and such right here.

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Filed Under: Baby, Blogging, Fatherhood, Personal Tagged With: Baby, blogging, Fatherhood

MovableType: Apparently, We No Longer “Get It”

February 27, 2008 by Dave!

We’ll it appears that the upgrade to MT4.1 broke commenting on my blog. Now, this wouldn’t be so bad–if I had any idea how to fix it. Or, if, when I clicked the “Help” link from within my blog management console, it didn’t take me to this page:
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/help/dashboard/

Which, at least as of the writing of this post, generates a 404 “Page Not Found” error:

Yep. Helpful.

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Filed Under: Blogging, Observations, Technology Tagged With: MT MT4.1 MovableType

Blawg Review #122

August 20, 2007 by Dave!

Blawg Review goes back to school with Blawg Review #122. With the school year almost upon us, it’s time for late registration–and you can’t register if you don’t know what courses are being offered. So, without further ado, I present to the Blawg Review Course Catalog.

Your host next week will be the esteemed D. Todd Smith at the Texas Appellate Law Blog. Be sure to visit for the next Blawg Review installment!

Blawg Review has information about next week’s host, and instructions on how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.

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Filed Under: Blawging, Blogging, Law, Law School

Microsoft: We can’t even *give* Vista away!

December 28, 2006 by Dave!

Okay, that’s not quite true. But apparently, after the flack they received for trying to buy reviews and snow the blogosphere give prominent bloggers a chance to preview Vista on swanked-out, fugly, yet free laptops, it turns out, Microsoft wants the laptops back.

Classic. Let’s hope Microsoft executed Vista better than they’ve executed this PR campaign. Or maybe this is what happens when you try to buy a viral marketing campaign… and do it poorly.

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Microsoft’s Free Laptops…

December 27, 2006 by Dave!

Apparently, Microsoft is handing out free laptops to prominent bloggers, hoping they will write up their (positive?) experiences with Vista. Of course, I wouldn’t turn down a free laptop, Vista or not. But I seriously have to question their choice of machines… I mean, a Ferrari branded laptop? C’mon, Microsoft, that comes off like you’re… well, trying to compensate for something. *ahem*

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Ch-ch-ch-changes

November 14, 2005 by Dave!

Coming off of a blogging conference, I’ve made a few changes around here. Most are behind the scenes (I’ve modularized my templates and stylesheets) and you shouldn’t notice them unless I’ve screwed something up.
The new features you might actually notice are:

  • A FeedBurner Feed
  • E-Mail Subscription (via FeedBurner/FeedBlitz)
  • Updated Blogrolls
  • Tags!

If you notice something out of whack, please drop me a note and let me know.

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Filed Under: Announcement, Blogging, Personal Tagged With: announcement blogging mt

BlawgThink: I’m so meta, in my blog.

November 14, 2005 by Dave!

Here’s the BlawgThink final wrap up… Then enough navel gazing and back to the regularly scheduled irreverence you’ve come to expect here.

There were too many people I met to name them all, but I was very glad for the opportunity to meet everyone. It was very nice to get a chance to meet some people who I’ve read regularly for some time, and others who I intend to start reading post haste. I’ll be updating the ol’ blogroll shortly.

A huge thank you to our gracious hosts Dennis Kennedy and Matt Homann who did an outstanding job.

It was also a real pleasure to meet entrepreneurs (yes, solos are entrepreneurs) like Carolyn Elefant and Brandy Karl. They provide refreshing perspective, especially since I’m entrepreneurially inclined myself.

Some other refreshing perspectives to blogging issues, problems and solutions, came from Sabrina I. Pacifici, Henry Copeland, and Jeff Beard. Who all participated in one of the most interesting sessions of the second day.

I got some great tips for streamlining my blog from Fred Faulkner and I have to thank Karl Craine for his generous support of a law student with food.
Finally, it was a distinct pleasure to meet Doug Sorocco who was not only super helpful but an all around great guy, and Evan Schaeffer who is also great and very supportive of student blawgers.

Thanks to everyone involved, and I look forward to meeting more bloggers in person as I continue to develop the content here on Preaching to the Perverted.

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Filed Under: Blawging, BlawgThink, Blogging Tagged With: blawging blawgs blawgthink blogging

BlawgThink: Future of LexThink

November 12, 2005 by Dave!

For the last “session” of the day, I sat down with, Matt Homann and some others to discuss the future of LexThink and share ideas about the successes and failures of the conference. Evan Schaeffer, Carolyn Elefant, and Henry Copeland had some great ideas and suggestions For ways to make not only this conference better–but also taking it to a new level with other topic ideas, etc. Some really good ideas came out of this that I’d love to see implemented in future conferences.

One thing is certain: Henry Copeland gets it. The guy has really great, insightful comments that show he’s really on the ball.

Here are some specific suggestions I had for making BlawgThink/LexThing even better:

1. The sponsorships and product giveaways were great, but it sure would be nice to see a Mac sponsor!

2. A little more instruction on the “Open Space” would be nice; having the list of “Open Space” sessions better organized would have been helpful.

3. A little better communication before the conference would be nice; the blog and basecamp were OK, but a tad unreliable. LexThink might want to ReThink their hosting company.

Keep in mind, these are pretty minor criticisms. When you have a two day conference and you can only generate three minor criticisms, that’s a damn good conference!

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BlawgThink: Wikis

November 12, 2005 by Dave!

Here’s one of the real successes of the “Open Space” conference model: I’m interested in wikis. I have some personal/business projects that I would like to collaborate on and wikis seem like they might be a good application. So I threw it out there as a topic idea, got my space, and Viola! An instant session on wikis.

Several people came together to share what they knew about wikis, to talk about how they want to use wikis, and Doug Sorocco gave a great demonstration–ad hoc–installing a wiki and editing some pages on the fly. This was exactly the kind of session that makes a conference like this great.

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BlawgThink: Blogs of Knowledge Management

November 12, 2005 by Dave!

My first “Open Space” session of the day was one on Knowledge Management and blogs. It was a lively and interesting discussion, with two camps: the “personal voice” camp and the “enterprise blog” camp. In reality, I think both are valid approaches to blogs and leveraging them as knowledge bases. On the plus for the “enterprise blog” vein is the idea that content needs classification and coordination, the value in the blog is the timely dissemination of valuable information. This requires a more controlled and moderated methodology for content creation and publication. On the plus side for the “personal voice” approach is the obvious: content generated by the expert with a unique voice is valuable content.

In the end, I came away with some good insight that there are different applications for blogs and to state the obvious again–different blogging approaches are necessary for different audiences and applications. The highlight of the session for me were the insights from Sabrina I. Pacifici who really understands the needs of enterprise blogging as well as being a prolific blogger in her own right. Great session!

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