Oh, man. I can’t wait. The other night, Kris mentioned she was was going to make a couple of pies for Thanksgiving.  She asked if I had any preference. I think she was surprised when I said blackberry. It seemed random, perhaps, and I don’t think I’ve ever requested blackberry pie.  (Then again, we [...]

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Sometimes nothing soothes the spirit like a day spent in the outdoors – away from the computer monitor and keyboard, the desk and lamp, the debilitating radiation of the television.  But this doesn’t always require a journey into the wilderness. This afternoon, after Isobel got up from her nap, Kris and I took the kids [...]

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Ernesto on November 21st, 2009

There was so much great stuff search engine optimization material at the New England New Media Association SEO Bootcamp last Thursday that offering five takeaways from the meeting seems parsimonious, but hey, come to the next one! If you knew nothing about SEO, it would have been a great starting place, and if you had [...]

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Ernesto on November 14th, 2009

New Hampshire  newspaper editors and publishers met at UNH in Durham the other night to discuss challenges faced by the industry.  It was an opportunity for a discussion about the newspaper business that, as the organizer and The Telegraph’s publisher, Terry Williams, pointed out, looked beyond the problems faced by the major, debt-laden, metro papers [...]

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The Office recently riffed on pay-walls on newspaper Web sites, in particular the Wall Street Journal.  There’s probably not a newspaper Web site in the country right now not trying to figure out what the right balance between continuing to increase traffic and support growing ad inventory, while at the same time protecting print subscriptions, [...]

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I do not run on trails very often.  Primary reason?  I’m not good at it. I roll my ankles left and right (literally), I trip, I sprawl in the leaves and dirt.  Some of the worst running injuries I’ve ever had have come as the result of trail running. So how’d I end up running [...]

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