Ashley Richards

This weekend I “soft launched” Ch.ai. It’s a tea blog. Basically I drink so much tea, find so many little tid bits related to tea, that I could fill a whole blog talking about it. And I don’t put it all here otherwise it would become rather clear just how crazy I am when it [...]

Fernando Flores está traduciendo las guías para la discusión en la conferencia de Blogher a español. That was with the help of Mr. Flores’ blog and Google Translate, and it’s probably still horrendous to native Spanish speakers. Fernando Flores, a senator in Chile with a rather interesting bio, is translating the Blogher Discussion Guidelines into [...]

Tonight I went to the BayChi presentation on Web 2.0. The panelist/presentors were Stewart Butterfield from Flickr, David Sifry from Technorati, Paul Rodemacher from HousingMaps, and Thomas Vander Wal from Personal Infocloud. The topics of tags and tagging came up since Flickr and Technorati use them. Sifry mentioned that only 33% of the tags in [...]

People had asked me to make the BlogHer Discussion Guidelines available online. It wasn’t until after Beth Kanter sent me an email today that I realized I’ve been remiss in my duties. So here you go – the BlogHer Discussion Guidelines in a pdf. It’s not exactly what was handed out at the conference. I’m [...]

I was watching Good Morning America before leaving for work yesterday, and they had yet another report of a female teachers having sex with their students. I have to admit I was only half listening to it, so I might have missed a few points they touched on. But what is the media’s obsession with [...]

I just got home from Blogher, and here’s my To-Do list. Enble Comments – I keep meaning to, but I just can’t bring myself to futz around with the code. Ethics Manifesto – The idea for this was spawned from the Citizen Journalist Birds-of-a-Feather session. It was suggested that we look at Jay Rosen’s Q&A [...]

A group of women are getting together to start of conference to address issues about women and blogging – Bloghercon. It’s like BloggerCon, but focused on women. Now the question is : Should we invite men to Bloghercon or not? Neither – Do not advertise it as a women only or men invited conference. You’re [...]

Remember S.E. Hinton? She wrote “The Outsiders”, “That was Then, This is Now”, “Rumble Fish” and “Tex”. Well, it seems she no longer has writers block, and Tor is releasing her new novel, “Hawkes Harbor“. And this one is aimed at us adults who read her books as teenagers! Yahoo! News has a little story [...]

Last week I got a phone call from a small businessman in a rather niche market. Seems his site was no longer listed in Google. Without giving away his identity I thought I’d share what he was going through and some advice as I understand the frustration when your site completely drops off Google. Let’s [...]

Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, DreamWorks, Pixar, and at one time Disney. What do all of these things have in common? They all had highly successful, well-received films because they know how to tell a good story well. Think about the types of films that they’ve all created. Many of them had fantastic special effects and featured [...]