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I’m ba-ack…

Sorry for the unexpectedly long absence, y’all. And THANKS to my beloved name twin, Kristen, for taking care of business while I was gone.

So here’s what happened:

1. Our internet and cable were turned off early.
2. Our vaccuum broke.
3. Our closing was pushed back and almost didn’t happen.
4. We were briefly homeless, with everything we owned trapped in a moving truck and nowhere to take it.
5. We finally closed but had no one to help us get the furniture off the truck, so my mother- and sister-in-law came and brought another woman and the four of us girls and Jesse did it all.
6. Our internet was connected WAY late (because all of our installations had to be rescheduled after the closing got moved) and is painfully slow compared with our speedy cable connection before. (Woohoo, boonies!)
7. We had no washer and dryer for two weeks, and then when they did come the morons from Best Buy, where their customer service SUCKS didn’t send the right power cord and they won’t let their people carry spares, so I had a washer and a dryer but no power cord, which, as you can imagine, was not helpful.
8. Random boxes of important office things were misplaced and I couldn’t get to all of my, you know, important office stuff, which meant hours of searching and emergency trips to the office supply store.
9. Neither of us has really slept in a week and a half because you can hear the highway from our bedroom (but nowhere else in the house), but we’re so exhausted at this point that we’re pretty much sleeping despite the noise, but fitfully at best.

So the good news is that I’m back, I’m online, I’ve found most of my important things (though there are still a few pesky renegade boxes, I think), and we’re starting to get settled in. I’ll be catching up on my e-mail over the next few days and making up for lost time here, so keep your eyes peeled!

It’s good to be back. :]

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Hey guys,

It’s Kristen! Not that Kristen, but Kristen Fischer. I’m Kristen’s friend moderating her blog while she’s off packing and unpacking, cleaning and hopefully sleeping, too!

She’ll return soon with her awesome posts–hang tight!
K:)

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www.inkthinkerblog.com — If you’re going to try to spread the word about whatever it is you’re spreading the word about, at least make some attempt, however superficial, to connect what you’re rambling on about with something on the blog you’re targeting. At least then you’ll have a chance of sneaking through. But 2,000+ words on how people who don’t believe in the Trinity are going to Hell as a comment on a post about the legitimacy of blogging as journalism just isn’t going to work, even if you use the word “blog” several times. Nice try, but no cigar.

Somebody pour me a drink, please. Between Ivan and this guy, I’m just about done.

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www.inkthinkerblog.com — This is a long-overdue post in response to one gentleman’s suggestion, at WIW on March 10, that blogging isn’t “real” writing. Um, excuse me? (I raised my hand and said, “I’d just like to indignantly assert that blogging is indeed real writing, mister!”)

But you have to give him the benefit of the doubt. I mean, the vast majority of blogs are crap. Let’s face it. But that shouldn’t invalidate the amazing minority of fantastic writers with poignant, timely insights. Or, you know, me.

In 2004, Forbes compiled an impressive list of the best blogs on the web, including medical blogs, economics blogs, political blogs, and even celebrity blogs, among others. If Forbes thinks it’s worth ink and bandwith, I have to agree.

A blogger writing about New Orleans’ levees scooped the AP — and beat them to the story by more than 6 months.

A blogger writing under the name “the Florida masochist” reports another major scoop regarding foodstamps in storm-stricken Florida: “So one little blogger scooped media outlets owned by Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, Washington Post Co., Tribune Co., to name just four.”

Boing Boing, called the world’s most popular blog by Technorati (which, incidentally, hates me), gets 1,443,817 visits per day. Fark.com, another hugely popular blog, gets 1,058,733 visits per day (according to StatBrain.com).

For comparison (also StatBrain.com),

• NYTimes.com gets 5,548,598 visits per day
• WashingtonPost.com gets 4,895,664 visits per day
• NYPost.com gets 1,681,660 visits per day
• ChicagoTribune.com gets 1,034,280 visits per day
• DailyNews.com (LA) gets 19,816 visits per day

But this isn’t a contest on scooping or hits. It’s an illustration that blogging means something. And I’m not talking about “omg, u wont beleeve wht he sed 2 me in alegbar 2day. hes sooooo hotttt” blogging. I’m talking about blogging with a purpose beyond hearing oneself talk. It’s very real, and it’s here to stay. You don’t have to get on board, but you do have to get used to it.

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Finalist in 2006 Writer’s Digest Best Writer’s Website Contest

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