The Huffington Post And The New Age Of Citizen Journalism

Do you have an iPhone?  Are you just a little bit Internet savvy?  Would you like to do some blogging and online journalism.  Have you heard of the Huffington Post?
The Internet is changing the way news organizations are gathering news.  Iran is a perfect example.  The government of Iran tried its best to keep the [...]

Blogging As Self-Analysis

Blogging as self-analysis.  Not a strange idea.  Even when a writer writes about others the very things that the writer points out are the things the writer is concerned about.  This tells the reader about the writer as surely as if the writer was asked, “Tell me about yourself”.
Actually, it’s more revealing because the writer [...]

The Loneliness Of The Short Story Writer

No matter if you write short stories, flash fiction, sudden fiction, mini fiction, postcard fiction, micro fiction or even a novel it’s all a lonely business.  Which is ironical because a writer writes about people.  The writer writes about family and friends even if we do call them characters because we take that away or [...]

Sarah Palin & The Politics Of Celebrity & Money

Governor Palin has a book deal with HarperCollins that will garner her millions of dollars.  The Governorship of Alaska pays $125,000 a year.  Unless the book is an absolutely terrible book, millions of Americans will by it and Sarah Palin will make millions of dollars.  The catch is she’s got to hand the book in [...]

Palin Has A $1,000,000 Book Deal With HarperCollins

As Republicans and the State of Alaska reel from the sudden resignation of Governor Palin, she has to finish a tell-all memoir due out this fall or in the spring for HarperCollins.  The pay of the office of Governor of Alaska is only $125,000.  Sarah Palin will make a lot more on her book with the [...]

Three Rational Reasons For Palin Resignation

Governor Sarah Palin is not a dumb person.  You don’t get to be governor by being stupid.  So, we must make two assumptions here.  Someone was getting too close to something that would expose some dirty deed she was connected with which would ruin her political career anyway and to forestall the revelation she jumped ship; or, it [...]

Blogging On The 4th Of July 2009

Hello, my brother and sister writers, bloggers and Americans.  It’s a sunny morning here in Pittsburgh.  It’s around 11:00 am.  Some guy outside is using a mower to cut the grass.  Summer is definitely here.  I want to send out a special greeting to all my brother and sister veterans and of course the Old [...]