Jeff Skrenes ha put together a 2-part series on the history of the North Minneapolis blogs that duke it out over where that quadrant of town should be heading. It’s a great crash course for those interested in understanding the players and where they are coming from, from Skrenes’ balanced and humorous perspective.
I’ll create a round-up of stories about the Jerry Moore v. John Hoff (Johnny Northside) trial’s conclusion below. Sheila Regan at TC Daily Planet: “Jury says Hoff didn’t lie, but has to pay anyway“. Sheila also has a piece after da2 of the trial titled “Who’s lying? Moore vs. Hoff, Day 2. Now we know [...]
Donald Allen raised an interesting theory in the comments of an earlier post, where he suggests that the reason I write about him is for blogging profits. As I understand it, he seems to think that I’m profiting off of him due to the amazing amount of traffic this blog receives when I blog about [...]
Squashed wrote an interesting post comparing blog comments to graffiti, suggesting that there are similarities between the two, and that having high hopes for quality comments on blogs is an exercise in frustration: The part that sometimes surprises me is that a lot of people get quite upset about the nastiness of comments on other [...]
If you’re like Bill and would rather have a politics-free version of The Deets in your RSS reader of choice, here is an easy way to do it. Go here. Input the category you’d like filtered out. Then replace the current feed in your RSS reader with the one you’ve created. By default, for Bill, [...]
Looking through the most popular posts on The Deets for 2010, I see that some things I wrote about Craigslist and Comcast are at or near the top of the list, due to their national interest. However, if I filter visitors to The Deets by location, and just look at Minnesotans who visited this site, [...]
Just like that. Another year of blogging. I’d like to celebrate by sharing this quote from Squashed: “There are two classes of people – those who pay interest and those who receive and live upon interest.” Interesting paying people unite!
Did you know that you can read The Deets on your Kindle? Amazon charges $1.99 / month for this service. Of that, I make 30%, so if enough of you do this, I’ll be able to keep a full stock of quinoa in my cupboards. If you really love your Kindle and think that anything [...]
This is a quick lesson in “Do as I say, not as Luke Hellier does”. If you take pride in your blog and your blog’s appearance, don’t allow spammers to overrun your comments. It’s unprofessional and gives the impression that you really don’t care about your audience or your appearance. For an example of what [...]
This past Saturday night, I was hanging out with Paul Merrill, talking about politics, sex, and religion, when Paul asked me if I ever receive any strange or harrassing phone calls from people who’ve read The Deets. He noticed that I publish my cell phone number on this site along with the qualifier “Use it. [...]
