I was in my bank the other day to roll over my wife’s 401k, and I was browsing all of their literature while I waited for the financial advisor. I don’t usually pay any attention to all of the stuff along the wall because I already have all of the banking junk that I need and I don’t want to be tempted to open another account just to get the free M&M’s, which I would almost certainly do. I love M&M’s. For the first time I looked at the “Business Of The Month” table, and I was appalled.

Barack Obama this week rejected public fundung for his campaign according to the Los Angeles Times.  This seems like a big deal, I know, and a lot of good government analysts are saying that it is a mistake and that it could be a strong point for McCain in the gneral election  It is not so much that he rejected the public financing, but that he said previously that he was committed to public financing.  So he has done some backpedaling.  He will certainly have to answer for that.  But is the actual rejection of the public funding a big deal?  I say that there will be some huffing and puffing, but ultimately it won’t be a big issue.

If you are reading this article, then it is no surprise to you that our electronic culture is changing faster than we can measure and our connectedness boasts the largest geographical and numerical network in history. The phenomenon of our communication age is a child of several technologies that all dramatically shaped our culture, and it is merging, changing, and undoing many of the products of those technologies as electronic culture claims its own place in our postmodern world.

Timing is everything in blogging. Well, not everything. Content is a key element, but secondary to timing. It is important, though… content… but you have to wait for the right content to come along, or it just isn’t worth the effort.

I never post anything early in the morning. It comes off as too zealous. It turns off the readers. People look at some two-bit blogger who is up at 5:00 in the morning typing as some Huffington Post wannabe trying to get the scoop on the latest stories. Bad idea. It is best to wait and see what is on the wire for the day and write about that.