Censorship of the Old Fashioned Wordpress
Posted by: Alan in Book Reviews, Books, Humor and Memes, Short Takes
Recently Tiffany created a Blog Catalog discussion decrying the over-use of terms like "censorship" to the point they become meaningless and useless (in a ‘boy who cried wolf’-sort-of-way) and I was inclined to agree. I suspect taht Peter Phillips and the folks at Project Censored would agree as well. If you, too, think that terms like censorship should apply to things like a well written book detailing the 25 most important stories affecting our planet and its peoples that you are Not hearing about on the news or on the nets, head to the 900’s* and check out Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories. Recommended.
*at my library this book can be found at 909.83
Jenn’s blog, The Thriftshop Romantic is a treasure trove of wonderful vintage "stuff" that Jenn finds and rescues from thrift shops. I don’t specifically recall Jenn doing a piece on old magazine advertisements, but this very visual identification and price guide for Old Magazine Advertisements, somehow made me think of Jenn’s blog immediately. Many of the featured ads reminded me a great deal of the tin advertising signs Joel used to collect. Recommended.
Even though Google backed away from the change that removed the ability to leave backlinks in blog comment signatures on blogspot, I continue to see a numbe of my old Blogger buddies migrate to Word Press. For those who are not as fortunate as I am in having a host who is also a friend and an IT hotshot who nurses along all my techno-dweebishness, may I suggest Maria Langer and Jordan Miraz’s Visual Quickstart Guide to WordPress 2. If you’re not a techie and just need a book that shows you where the controls are and how to use them, this one will fit the bill just fine. Recommended.
And finally today a huge Thank You to Will who recommended the offline composter program Blog Desk. My DSL again today went down just as I finished composing and was ready to publish this entry, but with Blog Desk my work was not lost and I was able to simply wait and publish when the DSL conneciton came back up.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
Hi,
I just wanted to drop you a short note letting you know that I found your blog through entrecard and that I’ve quickly become a fan. I’m subscribing to your RSS feed right after I finish this comment, so chalk another success up for entrecard.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
Hey, thanks, Alan, for the nice write-up– and yes, you’re right, I haven’t taken on vintage advertising pieces as a part of the thrifted ephemera. Many thrifts actually don’t have magazines anymore, or very few if they do. But there was some great art in them during the Golden Age of Illustration (20s-40s) including lots of work by artists like Maxfield Parrish. And earlier, artists we now would never regard as just ad designers, like Alphonse Mucha and Millais did ads for just about everything– Pears Soap being one. Good stuff!
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Such enjoyable reading, Alan. Really, I need more of this…
I like the idea of the BlogDesk composter[sic]
- currently, I create my blogs in Frontpage but will be glad to stop asap and blogdesk sounds like the perfect switchover once I get my WP blog going.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hey Alan - Very glad you are happy with BlogDesk and that it saved your bacon yesterday! I did notice that small typo also in the above post, and it is so good I think you should leave it. I am indeed a BIG advocate of composting and believe it is one of the main reasons the organic vegetables I grow taste so great, but… “Thank You to Will who recommended the offline composter”. LOL!
-Will
January 24th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
@will - it isn’t a composter? Damn, I had a huge bag of carrot tops and potato peels ready!