Indianapolis weekly newspaper NUVO has a terrific article this week about how to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive. I’ve noticed that, since we moved, we’re getting more junk mail than ever - crap advertisements from RedPlum, Shop Local (a grave misnomer - read NUVO’s story about junk mail to find out why), [...]

Came across a news item on MSNBC today regarding the most important decision President Elect Obama faces: what kind of puppy to get for the White House? Overwhelmingly, MSNBC visitors think Obama should adopt a mutt. As someone who works at an animal shelter, I couldn’t agree more. What do you think? Vote for the kind [...]

Moving and a transitioning away from my Angie’s List gig have kept me busy and away from my online endeavors, so I’ve been unfortunately quite silent about the election. But as a fan of Monty Python, John Cleese, and the future of the United States, this I had to share.

The virtual tour of our house, for sale near Irvington, is online!

Sitting here at the Blog Indiana conference on IUPUI’s campus, in their new student center (nice!) Also set up a Twitter account. Like I was with blogging, I’m very skeptical of Twitter and its uses. There’s no way I’ll be fanatical like many Twitter users who update about everything they do (”I’m in the restroom right [...]

I had the good fortune to work on two stories — one podcast, one print/online — for the first Angie’s List magazine pet-themed issue, which is out now. The first story, “No-Kill shelters spur controversy”, was written by Amy Mastin (moving to South Carolina soon — I wish her the best of luck!) with some [...]

Last week while I was preparing to write a press release, I somehow came across a terrific website, Free Web P.R., run by fellow IU School of Informatics New Media alum and Hoosier media arts guru Neal Moore. Having grown up in central Indiana, I often saw him on Indianapolis CBS affiliate WISH-TV, my family’s [...]

I know we haven’t been in our house for very long, but April and I are moving to Broad Ripple soon. So we’re putting our beautiful beloved bungalow up for sale. The house is at 122 Wallace Ave., close to Irvington and Ellenberger Park. The home features: updated large kitchen and bathrooms with tile floors; [...]

Could plastic be the worst kind of petroleum-related disaster, even worse than the oil spills we’ve all grown to know and love? Take a trip with VBS.tv in the video above to visit the North Pacific Gyre, an area bigger than Texas where much of our trash ends up floating around, where it kills wildlife and [...]

As the administrator of a handful of websites, I’m often learning new techniques about SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Basically, SEO is all about using web-savvy techniques to move your site’s ranking up in search engines like Google. So, for example, if I was starting a company to sell widgets (which I’m not, because - [...]