On November 8th and 9th, I’ll be at Blog World Expo, here in Las Vegas, and that Saturday (the 10th) at PostieCon. Officially, I’m going as a writer for lifehack.org, but I’d love to hang out with other bloggers, especially other parent-type bloggers if anyone’s coming. Let me know if you’re going to be in […]

One of my lifehack.org co-writers, Chris Brogan, wrote yesterday about Blogging for Kids. We don’t do this at my house — the kids haven’t expressed any interest in blogging, and I’m not going to press the issue — though the two “tweens” have MySpace profiles (customized by mom, marked “private”, with friend adds vetted […]

This is pretty cool: Kids Off The Couch offers a weekly newsletter that recommends a good movie to watch with the family along with an “adventure” to go along with the movie. For instance, they pair a viewing of Raiders of the Lost Ark with a trip to a local museum of antiquities. […]

I cam across this post on a site called “Modern Non-Aligned Fatherhood”: Things to Consider Before Becoming a Stepdad. The site has all the hallmarks of something that seemed like a good idea at the time but really wasn’t; there’s only three posts, all from last May. Which is a shame, because the posts are […]

Jumping Monkeys, the really very excellent podcast I blogged about here, is running a contest to win an autographed copy of Chandra Prasad’s book On Borrowed Wings, the story of a young women in the ’30s who goes to Yale disguised as a man. Here’s what you need to do:
To enter to win […]

If you haven’t already, you must subscribe to the TWiT podcast Jumping Monkeys. Hosted by Leo Laporte (of TechTV fame, more recently the proprietor of the TWiT network of tech podcasts) and Megan Morrone (also of TechTV) discuss the joys and perils of parenting in the Internet era. They discuss current news stories, interview prominent […]

The Simple Dollar is a personal finance blog, but every Sunday they offer long, in-depth reviews of personal development books. This week, they reviewed The Read-Aloud Handbook, a book about (as you can probably guess) reading loud to your children. It looks like a fantastic book. Listen:
First, and this is the big one, […]