Grand news for discriminating readers of the blog nation: GitM’s consistently excellent blog-twin, Follow Me Here, has returned from hiatus. (Both FmH and GitM date to 11/15/99.)
Category: Blog Nation
Seven and the Ragged Ghost.
Yep, it’s that time again: Ghost in the Machine is seven years old today. It’s been an up-and-down year, to be sure, but I’ve got no plans to give up the Ghost just yet, seven-year-itch be damned. (Particularly given that this blog has never seen a Democratic Congress — that should make things interesting for awhile.) At any rate, once again, and as always, thanks for stopping by. [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Revenge of Ethel.
By way of Dumbmonkey, one of the old-school progressive blogs returns to the Big Game. Welcome back, Ethel the Blog!
3.31.
I’ve upgraded the site to Movable Type 3.31. Please let me know if y’all have any issues with functionality and the like.
Full Slate.
“Where is the analyst at a firm called Forrester Research who used to be quoted everywhere calling us, witlessly, ‘the Slatanic’? Haven’t heard much from him lately.” A happy 10th anniversary to Michael Kinsley’s Slate, home to Dahlia Lithwick, Fred Kaplan, Seth Stevenson, and several other writers and journalists invariably worth checking out.
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Quiet again, I know. More researching and traveling back and forth from home base on this end…still, updates should hopefully resume their normal schedule in short order.
No Comment.
Hey y’all…if you tried to leave a comment recently, but couldn’t, sorry about that — it’s fixed now. Spambots overwhelmed the server while I was busy elsewhere.
Revisionist History.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” A personal note: At the kind invitation of Ralph Luker at Cliopatria, I’ve joined up as one of the founding bloggers of Revise and Dissent, a recently launched group effort by younger historians and historians-to-be over at the History News Network. I haven’t gotten around to posting there yet (and I expect I’ll be cross-posting quite often with GitM), but it’s now up-and-running and my new blog-colleagues are already posting, so check it out!
MySql Mishaps.
My apologies if you’ve tried to come by here lately and found the site derelict. There’ve been issues on the server side (perhaps akin to this) that look to have resolved themselves.
Fools of a Took.
Happy April Fool’s Day, y’all. Since I’m feeling lazy, I guess I’ll recycle Toast in the Machine for the sixth year in a row. But funnier, fresher stuff can be found elsewhere: Google gets into online dating, Bradlands goes Madlands, Fluxblog self-promotes, and the Museum of Hoaxes offers the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all Time. Update: Wikipedia has a list of the day’s hoaxes. (Via FmH.)