Memorial Day marked the unofficial start of summer. (The summer solstice begins June 21 this year.) Beach season is upon us. Coconut-scented sunscreen, captivating chick-lit books, Coronas, bikinis, and — for the parents who are reading this — swim diapers and those cute little floaties we use to keep our toddlers save when they swim and splash. Floats are good. Root beer floats. Floating in a life raft (with the aforementioned Corona tucked safely in its little mesh cup holder), floating boats, floating … well, floats. But if there’s one type of floating you want to avoid this summer (eww… [Read more…]
How To Look Like A Smack Amateur
May 27, 2008. 1 Comment
Don’t note your sources. For crying out loud – this is blogging 101. This weekend I did my weekend prowl for cool news and other items, and must have seen at least 40 blogs with items, pictures, and quotes, yet not a source among them. If you didn’t build it, make it, think it, create it, let me know who did. Nothing is more obnoxious than a blogger showing a house or cool art creation and not sourcing it. None of the blogs I saw tricks like this at were network based, but some were client owned blogs, or blogs [Read more…]
