Candleblog

Those of you who have been around the Candleblog block a few times will remember that it used to be a group blog with as many as 5 different authors. Most of those folks rarely ever contributed anything (kind of like I so rarely contribute at The Contrarian) and eventually I cut things back so [...]

My friends at Found Line in Burlington have developed this really simple, elegant and USEFUL web app for aggregating various tagged social media feeds in one spot. It’s cleverly called tagnabit. Based upon their successful Vermont Town Meeting Day aggregator and subsequent Alliance for Community Media conference site, tagnabit lets you enter a tag of [...]

Here are the subjects of the blog posts I’ve been meaning to write on my staycation but haven’t found the time for… 1. The end of newspapers does not mean the end of professional journalism. Examples of previous technological paradigm shifts support my claim. 2. Using the new Star Trek film as an example, I [...]

I’m off work this week and I have a couple of good blog posts burning holes in my brain, but I have family in town for a another day so they’ll have to wait another 24 hours or so. Stay tuned. I’ll be posting a Poli-Sci-Fi Radio today though, if you’re curious about a Star [...]

Last week I was on The Mark Johnson Show on WDEV. Mark was broadcasting live from the Leahy ECHO Center for Lake Champlain, talking about ECHO’s Voices for the Lake project and social media. I was there to talk about blogging and Twitter and new media in general. I was on right after Senator Bernie [...]

[Here's another blast from Candleblog's past. This is a review I wrote of the film 13 Going On 30, originally published May 30, 2004] Okay okay, I admit it. I’m a sucker for dumb romantic comedies. It’s a sickness and I’m trying to work through it. When I say “dumb” romantic comedies, I’m not referring [...]

Exactly five years ago, The first Candleblog post ever was published. Over the next day or two I’ll be republishing some of my favorite posts from the last five years. Here’s a goody from 4/16/04 — when the blog was one day old… Ellen Kwon In early September 1983 I was new at South Burlington [...]

I’ve been so busy lately I literally forgot to blog. Fortunately, I keep the interesting stuff in open Firefox tabs. To wit… Check out these awesome retro magazine ads for LOST heads (I need to get Emily to translate for me). The subtitles on the DVD release of the last year’s awesome Scandinavian horror film, [...]

Check out this interview with yours truly on the new local radio show, The Browser. We talk all about “social media” and a bit about VCAM and futurism and democracy and a bunch of other crap. Listen to me bloviate at length at your own risk. Thanks to Jonathan for having me on.

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