Oh you thought I was joking last week about doing this, weren’t you? You thought that maybe I was only going to do this for a week and get bored with the idea? Silly you. Again, I continue with promoting the work of my fellow Times Union community bloggers, until that day when the Times…
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A blogging flashback: March 2010
I was doing some maintenance to some of the old blog posts of mine – repairing old YouTube links and URL’s, for example – and I came across this old video clip of an event from three years ago. In March 2010, the Times Union hosted a blogging get-together at the College of Saint Rose.…
Read MoreWhere’s the TU’s “Best of Our Blogs”?
It was a standard routine for me. Get the Times Union print edition, turn to the Capital Region section, and look on page 1 of that section; it was a small little column called Best of Our Blogs. If I saw a picture of a camera-wielding man, then I knew that my blog had made…
Read MoreThe “like farm” scam on Facebook: we’re not talking Farmville here…
I saw this report from Yahoo! reporter Becky Worley and it confirmed my suspicions. It also explained why so many people out there get trapped by what they think is an innocent “like this” picture on Facebook and discover, weeks or months later, that someone is making money off of their “like.” You’ve seen these…
Read MoreDon’t vote for me.
Every year the Times Union holds its annual “Best of” survey, where they ask readers to vote on everything from best Italian restaurant to best local nightspot. One of the categories on the survey is “Best Local Blogger.” And every year at this time, I write a blog post encouraging you to NOT vote for…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket: it’s down to…
And so the Final matchup has been determined. Most of the other brackets in the NCAA pool were packed with upsets. In the Midwest bracket, upon which this “blog-specific” bracket was based, the upsets were few and far between. Once again, D357 quickly dispatched Bill W to make it to the finals, where he’ll face…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” blog bracket, Day 4
And so the Final Four has been determined. With Duke’s 66-50 win over Creighton last night, that means that blog-reader Pat has cruised past J-Mac to make my blog-bracket’s final four. She gets to face Jango Davis in the semifinals, while D357 takes on blog-bracket-buster Bill W in the other semifinal round. So here’s the…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 3
The first round of the “blog bracket,” in which sixteen readers of this blog are matched up with sixteen teams in the NCAA Division 1’s Midwest bracket, went off pretty well. Only one major upset, and seven of the eight top seeds advanced. Now let’s see how six teams did against each other. While the…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 2
Yesterday, six blog commenters advanced to the next round of the “blog-specific” Blog Bracket, which is tied in with the Midwest Division of the NCAA basketball tournament. They include blog commenters D357, Chad 9976, Bill W, Potrzebie, Erin’s Dad and Jango Davis. That still leaves two competitions from Friday – J-Mac v. Lazygal (Creighton v.…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 1
And the action in the NCAA has begun. So what does this mean for my sixteen blog readers? Well, it means that some of them have advanced to the next round – while others are packing their bags and saying, “Wait till next year, when Chuck expands the field to a round of 32.” I…
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