Goodbye, Hello...

Tweet Goodbye to the old. Hello to the new. After using the same theme for several years, I couldn’t maintain the swagger of “Now With 20% More Attitude.” Please make welcome “between you and me.” My blog started as “Discovering Community,” and after a bit of a hiatus for me to think about myself, I am back to community and conversation, between you and me. As always, feedback is...

Bring Me the News–When it Happens:...

Tweet The days of searching through reams of newspaper print for stories that are applicable to our lives are in their twilight.  RSS feeds (aka blogs) and Google Alerts change the way that valuable information is delivered.  In this segment, I would like to specifically deal with Google Alerts and how they can change our information flow.  For several years, I have used Google Alerts to comb the Internet for specific topics, and basically I thought of the alerts as a little geek secret.  However,...

Recognized...

Tweet Since March 29, 2006, I have been running this blog.  I moved over from blogspot, so that I could have a little more control of my blog.  I got a dreamhost account, plopped down wordpress, and started doing my thing. Of course, in the transition somehow I forgot to forward my page rank from Google.  For months I hung out, blogging away linking, getting linked, creating nifty widgets for high visibility, but no page rank.  I’ve even been boarded several times and instalinked once, but Google...

Browser Beware...

Tweet Discovering Community is about to return to business as usual, so my “Praise the Lord” google rank is going to drop and as Doug has said my tongue-in-cheek ranking is about to go back up! Kidneyblogging will continue, but more inane posts will likely follow.  Click the kidneyblogging logo if you would like to see the posts of the transplant in chronological order. ...

New Digs...

Tweet After several years of half-ass blogging at blogspot, I have gotten my own domain fully involved with WordPress.  I hope that you like my new home, and I hope and pray to actually give you something worth...