Because I have such a love of history, Samuel Morse’s first message by telegraph seemed more than a fitting first post to make from my new iPad 🙂...
“What hath God wrought”
Michelle Bradsher enters the blogosphere!
In case anyone’s wondering where the list of links went to: I haven’t forgotten about it. In fact it’ll probably reappear sometime this week if I can find time to put it together anew. It’s just something that I made a secondary priority during this blog’s recent redesign. And I’m looking forward to spinning some traffic toward friends and accomplices who also maintain blogsome presence on the Intertubes 🙂
As it turns out, tonight I discovered another to add to the roll. I have known Michelle Bradsher for a long time (like, going back to seventh grade). And I am delighted that she has chosen to share her unique voice and her talent for conveying the stories of others on her new site, Bradsher’s Blog.
Welcome to blogging, Michelle! I’m looking forward to reading your site and I am glad to spread the word about it with others 🙂...
Overhaul in progress
Pay no attention to… whatever!
EDIT 10:53 p.m. EST: This is the first major-scale monkeying-around that I’ve done to this blog since 2007. Been tinkering with it most of the day and so far… looks great! Should be easier to navigate from now on (and there’s even an “Earlier Posts” link at the bottom, finally!).
I’ve also been told that it’s coming in great on BlackBerry devices. Hopefully other mobile gadgets will display it just as well.
Awright well, comments as always are welcome 🙂...
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Awright, first person who can tell me what obscure mondo-bizarro film that is from, can buy themselves a candy bar and pretend I got it for them.
I’m… not quite ready to return to this blog at the usual frenetic frequency that all two of my loyal readers have come to appreciate. According to my figures there had been an average of five new posts a day for quite some time now. But if you look at the front page that I’m seeing right now, there’ve only been twenty-five posts since mid-August!
Clearly, something has been amiss with Your Friend and Humble Narrator.
I’m not retiring The Knight Shift (well, not planning to anyway: some claim that this blog has caused more mischief than WikiLeaks… and look at where that site has gone lately!). But there is certainly – and there has already been – some significant “shifting around” of ...
What do they know that I don’t?
For the past week or so, I have noticed that The Knight Shift is receiving an inordinately high number of visits from law firms.
All of them are coming in through the “front door” (the blog’s main URL at theknightshift.blogspot.com), not at any one particular post. And it’s not just been legal firms in North Carolina. If anything visits from law firms in my own home state are being vastly outnumbered by visits from across the country: places like Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Washington state, Texas, Alaska…
I am totally clueless as to what is going on that is leading so many lawyers to visit this site.
Dunno if this means that my activities as a blogger will be propelling me to a lawyer’s office but at this point, after going through that twice already, I’m starting to get used to it 😛...
Awright, break’s over…
I’d better get back to blogging in earnest. Stuff might be about to happen.
I am returning with some new features, which will be getting unrolled on The Knight Shift in the near future. Looking forward to seeing what kind of response they evoke 🙂...
Wow, what happened to my blogging?
Not a new word from The Knight Shift’s eclectic proprietor since Friday evening. Well, other than a comment or two on existing posts.
Let’s just say that I had a great past few days and that God wound up teaching me a lot of new things and I was led to let His guidance continue to linger and instruct me past the usual end of the weekend. Or something like that.
That, and it was a great Mother’s Day.
Looks like the stuff piled up in my absence. Where do I start?...
What’s wrong with you people?!?
I’m talking about those of you who are good friends who have blogs too. Too many of y’all have gotten more than a bit slack of late. What, you think I like reading my own all the time?! I go to you guys’ blogs too… and it’s absolutely heartbreaking that too many of you have seemingly abandoned your poor blogs!
At least Jenna St. Hilaire is still busy with hers. Not only that but she also just finished writing an entire novel. What do the rest of you have to say for yourselves?!?
Chad, what gives man? Two years we’ve been looking at that post about the Krispy Kreme Challenge that you ran in Raleigh. Time to re-brand yourself or something bro. And Brian… where are you?! Not an update in more than a year!
Don’t even get me started on the two Erics.
C’mon back to the blogosphere y’all. ...
Meet the Liberian Analog Blogger
Think the blogosphere needs the Internet? Bah! A dude in Liberia on the west coast of Africa is running a blog devoted to gathering that country’s news and in spite of his old-fashioned technique, he’s got hordes of readers!
In Monrovia, Liberia, there’s a guy taking the matter of a lopsided, state-run media and reshaping it into a free-of-charge, independent news-aggregator—all accomplished with dry-erase board and couple markers. (Sorry, internet!) Each morning, at 10:45 AM, Alfred Sirleaf wakes up and heads down to his bulletin board to post the day’s news, culling together a slate of stories his countrymen might otherwise never see. Grateful readers line up in droves, on foot and in cars, to read these updates, in what has been described as the country’s—and probably the world’s—only analog blog.
Hit the above link for video of Mr. Sirleaf and his unique “website”!...
A blogger is born!
Hey everyone, say hey to the newest blogger on the planet (along with the probably 500 or so in the past few minutes who also took that first leap into the blogosphere): Steven Glaspie and his Gentle Giant Express. Steven is a longtime friend and fellow Eagle Scout, and yes he’s yet another brilliant mind to come out of Rockingham County, North Carolina! This is a thinkin’ dude, who writes some great poetry among other things. The blog is brand spankin’ new, so check it out at stevenglaspie.blogspot.com and watch Steven flex his skillz!...