Brad Rourke

Category: blogs

  • Why I Am Not Anonymous

    There’s a controversy right now over an exchange between two notable bloggers, each from opposite sides of the liberal/conservative divide. An author at the “moderate” liberal Obsidian Wings blog who writes under the pseudonym “publius” has long criticized conservative Ed Whelan, who writes at the National Review’s Bench Memos and is the president of the…

  • Why You Need A Link Sharing Strategy

    You need a strategy to get this link-sharing to happen in order to spread your messages. There appears to be a sea change beginning (especially if you add in demographic analyses), where people rely more and more on information coming to them from trusted connections — not because they read it in a newspaper.

  • Do Nothing

    I’ve been posting to this blog daily for some time now. I am doing it to keep a rhythm, but sometimes it’s rough finding material. Yesterday I saw a perfect item for days when the Muse isn’t striking. It’s from Seth Godin: I had, as I do every year, [an April Fool’s] post written and…

  • Taking Private Conversations Public

    Last week, Lisa Hickey wrote a piece in which she mused on some of the societal effects of social media. She makes a number of good points, but one in particular stood out for me — the relationship between online and in-person conversations when it comes to trust. Think about all the times you’ve had…

  • Tweets Squeezing Out Rants

    Brian Solis of TechCrunch wrote an important review of an interesting trend in today’s social media world. We are learning to publish and react to content in “Twitter time” and I’d argue that many of us are spending less time blogging, commenting directly on blogs, or writing blogs in response to blog sources because of…

  • Looking For Mr. GoodBlog

    My friend Adam Pagnucco, who writes a blog on Maryland Politics called, natch, Maryland Politics Watch, had a fascinating post just the other day. Actually, it wasn’t by him — it was by his wife, Holly Olson. In it, she chronicles the history of her husband’s involvement with MPW and blogging, and announces there are…

  • Living In Public

    My friend Thomas Kriese pointed me to a piece by a NY-based VC named Fred Wilson. It’s about “living publicly.” There are a lot of ways you might take that term — in this case it describes the state that it seems many of my friends experience these days. With all the blogging, Twitter, FaceBook,…

  • My Posts Are Too Long

    My posts have been getting longer and longer. Must. Stop. Why? Because people want things in bites! Half the time, my ideas are only worth a bite anyway. More to the point, blogging traffics in speed, snark, and brevity. I can do two out of three (I’m not into snark). So I need to get…

  • A Dozen Years Of Blogging

    The other day I got to looking back at all the online activity in my past, and saw how entwined my day-to-day life has been with the Web since way back. First off, I recall I started a blog in 1996, a year before the word was invented. In 1996, during the Clinton-Dole presidential race,…