Duffy Lyon endorses Obama’s buttery goodness
In case you missed the week’s most critical presidential endorsement, it was that Norma “Duffy” Lyon endorsed Barack Obama.
Of course, you would be well within your rights to ask, “Who the heck is Duffy Lyon?” Ms. Lyon is the octogenarian dairy farmer in Tama, Iowa, who for nearly 50 years carved butter sculptures displayed at [...]
Brooks pleads guilty; what is the cost?
I was reading about former City Councilman Archie Brooks’s newly minted guilty plea, and a few folks on the Register’s website were commenting about how he had done a lot of good for the community over the years. They were rebutted immediately by those who believed that Brooks’s apparent breaches of the public trust far [...]
Has blogging peaked?
Earlier this year, there were rumblings that “blogging had peaked” as an activity because a blog-measuring service called Technorati had claimed that the number of daily posts to blogs worldwide seemed to be declining. I wrote at that time, and I still believe, that the number of posts per day has very little to do with [...]
Five Questions With… Andy Drish
Five Questions With… is a series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Andy Drish, a Drake University student who seems to have the whole “networking leads to visibility and success in business” thing down pat! Andy’s blog is called Connecting In College, and he’s one of the most [...]
Five Questions With… returns on Monday!
My semi-regular feature, Five Questions With…, returns on Monday! If you’re a Des Moines-area blogger and would like to be considered for a future edition, please drop me an email with your name and blog link.
Decision 2008: Winnowing the field of candidates – or, who I WON’T be voting for
The start of 4th Quarter 2007 marks the beginning of the final countdown to the Iowa Caucuses. Although I have been trying to cultivate a sort of ‘bemused detachment’ from presidential politics for the past several months, it’s time to begin thinking about who I might support.The only thing I know for certain right now [...]