‘Blogging/WWW’ Archive

Q&A with M. Scott Smith of DCSki.com

This winter I discovered the Web site DCSki.com | @DCSki when I was looking for a “lost ski resort” off of I-66. It turned out to be Ski Cherokee in Linden, Va. I have since enjoyed the many reviews of mid-Atlantic resorts that DCSki.com offers. I decided to set up a Q&A with M. Scott [...]

Penn State blog Black Shoe Diaries is going to run up the score

Over the weekend, the biggest Penn State blog went through a frameshift. Black Shoe Diaries founder Mike Hubbell announced he was moving on after many years helming the blog. I wish Mike well — he brought me into Blue White Roundtable back in its heyday and offered me a chance to write for the Maple [...]

Paul Lukas chronicles the sorry state of DC sports proofreading

Sports typos abound in Washington – ESPN Page 2
UniWatch columnist Paul Lukas has the complete rundown of the spelling errors and otherwise that have plauged DC teams, especially the Nationals. Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog is profiled as well.
Oh and Ball-Wonk was not the first Nats blog. While I was not and have never [...]

Is Ted Leonsis about to enter Act 2?

Is Ted Leonsis failing to learn from one of his favorite sayings?

Please go away IE6

Friday afternoon, I was surprised that I had modify the stylesheet to accommodate Internet Explorer 6, the browser that Microsoft released on August 25, 2001. Then, I saw this:
Microsoft is tired of Internet Explorer 6, too – Faster Foward, The Post

A new Nats road cap preview? Plus, other Blogger Day thoughts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – There comes a time when a blogger has to concede that he probably won’t get to blog about Nats Blogger Day as much as he would like. I think that day is today.
Blogger Day, organized by Chad Kurz (who just went on his first Nats road trip and blogged about it), was [...]

Welcome to v.14 – The Todd Blackledge Version

Good morning everybody! Yesterday I redesigned the look of William World News. I was not too happy with the previous design (one friend suggested it was reminiscent of Windows 3.11) but I needed something for the WordPress transition. I am generally happy with this design, based on the Dodo theme created by Rajveer Singh Rathore, [...]

Tweets of the Week, July 9-16

This week, the World Cup, George Steinbrenner and the Montgomery County, Md. Earthquake are featured in the second edition of Tweets of the Week.
SPECIAL TEXT MESSAGE OF THE WEEK
From Fritz: “I’m standing at the gravesite of Jack Kent Cooke!”
MISC.
@edsbs The best way I can cast Spain’s beautiful but sometimes tedious attack: they’re Bolero. http://is.gd/dnhBc
@kevin_reiss [...]

Tweets of the week July 1-7, 2010

A new feature debuts today — tweets of the week. I gather the best tweets I saw all week and post them. There is a definite Cleveland vibe going on here and way too many @kevin_reiss entries. You have to raise your game tweeple!
This is much less taxing than coming up with original content.
Most unlikely
@krmcguire [...]

Word Press 3.0 – Thelonious?

So, is the esoteric appeal worth the beatings?
Having used WordPress 2.9 for a while, I am pretty pleased with the platform, so I’m eager to try this new version out.

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