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Join me for a slow saunter through the blogosphere, please include your finds this week in the comments!: Roos, Rust en Regelmaat (Rose, Peace and Regularity) – Tear jerker alert, this is a beautiful blog about the heart wrenching, yet beautiful, days of a young family dealing with cancer in the Netherlands.  Her ‘To The [...]

  Huge congrats to Carrie and Marla for their exciting release of The Tasteful Life community site this week.   I think that this community arrives at the perfect time – while most of us are still eyeing our bank accounts warily, we want a great centralized spot for affordable ways to live a tasteful [...]

  Okay, so it's technically not 'NEW', but I've been writing off and on in a more food focused online space of geekery.  Meet www.hungrykatie.com, a step up and away from my very first food blog attempt earlier this year. Weekly menus, explorations into veganizing my favorite dishes, raising a veggie kiddo, cooking nerd Web [...]

  A few things that caught my eye on the Interwebs this week: Reason Mag shares the Public = Online link Smaggle Style asks the masses their thoughts on refusing to pay for terrible restaurant food DesignMom alerted me to the new and lovely Anthropologie sister store:  Leifsdottir Lifehacker catches us up to Google's new [...]

  Another day, another moment of retrospection.  We continue on with the fun that is Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.  It’s fun, you should join in — just tag your Blog posts or Tweets with #bestof09 or #bestof2009. My Blog reading is an important building block of many different parts of my life.  [...]

Blogging for Business – Sweet for all sizes View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: business small) This is a recent presentation I did for an Internet Marketing for Small Business class at the UHSBDC last week.  It's always a challenge to know exactly what a varied audience is looking for when discussing Blogging [...]

Continuing on the power of Qik motif (see Congressman Culberson’s live video activity here), Noel Hidalgo (aka:  @noneck) has been off changing the world again, this time stirring up trouble (in all the best ways) in China during the Olympics. He and John Hocevar (founder of Students for a Free Tibet) were interviewed by Amy [...]

The AMA Houston Tech SIG hosted a great Blog Forward presentation today with 3 panelists of various Blogging heritages including myself (www.happykatie.com and Schipul), Greg Price (of PKF and www.fromgregshead.com) and Michael Berry (of Ops Manager at Clear Channel and of KTRH blogs). Many thanks to Rob Roberts and the AMA Tech SIG crew for [...]

SXSW Interactive Festival 2008 was super, as always.  While the quality of panel content wasn’t as consistent as I would’ve hoped, the people, events and general camaraderie  were outstanding.  As were the beer, wine, Nuclear Tacos and the 400 times we ate at Iron Cactus.  Also as were (if that even makes sense), the awesome [...]

So I’m not going to lie, I feel sad that this is the first real post I have written in 2008.  But no worries, this isn’t going to be one of the apology lame-a** posts.  Instead, I have some beautiful things to share with you: ** Currently I am quite blissfully happy looking at photos [...]