The Power of Art
It has certainly been a while, hasn’t it?  We moved to our lovely new place in Baltimore with some difficulty and exhaustion, but move we did.  The kitchen is amazing, and the soaking jacuzzi tub is divine!  We traveled home to help a one @DjLunchbox move to his new abode on the weekend of Halloween and handed out candy to the kids in my parents’ neighborhood.  Both Jack and I got sick to varying degrees, and only this week are we starting to feel better and back to normal.  There have been visits to local restaurants, a visit to the

Save the comments, save the world
  Last week I issued a challenge to friends, readers, and folks who generally lurk in the shadows.  the responses were, themselves, interesting and pretty consistent when it came to explaining why someone may or may not comment on sites or blogs that they read: The point was already made (don’t want to be redundant), and tied to that: Nothing new to add except “I agree” Folks who use RSS readers like Google Reader, find clicking through to the site to comment impedes their likelihood of commenting (though a few comments did mention the different

Save the Comments!
Podcamp Pittsburgh 4 was this weekend.  As you can tell from my previous post, I was excited to go.  Thrilled, in fact.  But by now, you also know that I did not, in fact, get to go back to Pittsburgh for this year’s sold out PCPGH4.  Without going in to the gory details, let’s just say that digestive distress in cats is no joking matter, and it’s one hell of an expensive problem to have. Couple that with the fact that symptoms usually show up too late for any intervention and the need to visit Vet Emergency Hospitals, and you have a very hy

Podcamp Pittsburgh 4! #PCPGH4
PocampPittsburgh.com   It’s that time of year again folks!  Podcamp Pittsburgh 4 is ready to kick off tomorrow night from 6 pm - 8:30 pm at the AlphaLab for the Meet-n-Greet, and then officially begin Saturday morning (9 am - 4

FTC Fear-mongering
It looks like the sky is falling again. Yesterday the FTC announced that, “beginning on Dec. 1, bloggers who review products must disclose any connection with advertisers, including, in most cases, the receipt of free products and whether or not they were paid in any way by advertisers, as occurs frequently.”  Immediately bloggers, Twitterers, and Message board trolls whipped themselves into a fervor over the regulations announced by the FTC.