A Bryan Garner tweet
“Good piece by M. Leddy.” Yep, I’m happy.
Why Elaine Fine (still) blogs
Veranda Davenport interviews Elaine Fine.
A moment of puzzled self-promotion
“I have no idea what it means, but Teads Labs ranks Orange Crate Art as forty-ninth of one hundred top blogs for culture in May 2015.”
Why I (still) blog
“I (still) blog, and I still write letters (with a fountain pen), and I still wear an analog watch (Timex). That fewer and fewer people do so makes no difference to me. My writing practice here is, to use a Van Dyke Parks phrase, of supreme unimportance . One can read that phrase with emphasis on the third word or the second.”
Musical Assumptions turns ten
Huzzah!
Fare forward, Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan has stopped blogging.
Happy tenth birthday, Orange Crate Art
“Running and jumping and playing, showing greater self-control and poise, enjoying social activities with peers, noticing increased body odor: yes, Orange Crate Art is at an exciting age.”
Recently updated
DFW plagiarism.
Two hundred blog description lines
“Semi-tedious.”
About the picture
In a New Jersey diner.
Number nine, number nine
This blog turns nine.
Lexikaliker at 1,000
At Lexikaliker, Gunther has just posted his thousandth post.
Cool, awesome, and so on
More depressing than getting these spam comments: being the one who sends them.
Blog typography
Tommi Kaikkonen’s Interactive Guide to Blog Typography is worth reading. Especially useful are the recommendations about line length and font color.
Some recent comments
“The more I read and write, the more I ascribe to Elaine Fine’s theory of knowledge: ‘What I know is rivaled only by what I do not know.’”
FeedBurner, broken
You know that something is seriously wrong when even the usually dormant FeedBurner Status Blog acknowledges the problem.
TYPE LOUD
Why? Ear infection.
A heads-up about comments
Once is enough.
Local man’s blog referenced in cartoon
George Bodmer’s Oscar’s Portrait references Orange Crate Art.
StatCounter is the best
“I’m happy to support a company so responsive to its customers.”
Followers
“To write, though, is not to sniff for what’s popular but to keep one’s nose to the ground — and to follow wherever it leads.”
Recently updated
Fightin’ that spam.
To the next!
From the spam folder: aberrant expressions of gratitude.
Happy birthday, Orange Crate Art
“I remember as if it were eight years ago sitting at the fambly Dell after dinner and getting advice from my daughter Rachel about how to begin.”
YouTube and me
Did you know that if you embed or link to YouTube clips on your site, Google might create a “channel” that collects the relevant content?
Welcome, millionth visitor
In the Major Leagues of the Internets, a million visits is all in a few days’ work. Here in Double-A, it’s a big deal.
Tendered buttons
Like, Retweet, +1.
Avoiding CAPTCHA
Blogger’s updated, more difficult word-verification gizmos (aka CAPTCHAs) are tedious at best. Sometimes they’re unreadable.
Re: Curator’s Code
Marco Arment’s “I’m not a ‘curator’” offers an excellent analysis of Maria Popova’s Curator’s Code.
Marco Arment on blogging
Good advice for anyone who writes online.