Top Ten Reasons to Witness Your Dad's Demise

"My dad has been gravely ill for four months. My family and I have been through a roller coaster of ups and downs, as his health has improved, only to crash again and again. I've spent a lot of time in nursing homes, hospitals, ambulances. I can't help but think God's got some reason for showing me these dark and sometimes bright moments. I like God. He's a good guy, really. So, here's my attempt to see the good in these bad times." [Halley's Comment, via Doc Searls Weblog]

Take a minute and read this one.

Jessica at Off the Record asks:

"In 1889, Andrew Carnegie published The Gospel of Wealth detailing the responsibilities of the rich. What are the responsibilities of those who are technologically rich to people who do not have access to technology? The digital divide continues to grow." [April 2, 2002]

An excellent point.

It turns out this is "the blog of the Observer-Reporter newsroom" (a newspaper in Pennsylvania). How cool is that! (Notice that's an exclamation point, not a question mark.) The link to the blog is even listed on the paper's front page. Now if they would just RSS-ify it for news aggregators.

In the same Wired article I note in the previous post, you'll find We Interrupt this Blog....

"What do you do when your publisher doesn't have the budget to send you on tour? Greg Knauss, author of Rainy Day Fun and Games for Toddler and Total Bastard, has opted for a virtual book tour of blogs and is writing, instead of reading, about his book.

His tour, which includes 20 blog stops, started on March 25 at Kottke.org and is scheduled to last one month....

But so far the tour is working. 'We're doing really small print runs, 50 to 100 at a time, but they're selling faster than we can print them,' said Knauss' publisher, Ben Brown of So New Media." [Wired News]