I did a lousy job hyping before hand with not a peep posted here about it.... but....

It's not too late you can still hear me on Soapbox Radio with Soapbox Mom. Just not live.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Soapbox-Mom/2008/07/29/Soapbox-Radio

If you have an hour to burn and you want to listen to me go on and on and on about not much of anything that that is just the link for you!

Soapbox Mom does and AWESOME job of keeping the proceedings moving along and although I have to admit that although I was rather nervous at the outset and the whole thing was a bit of a blur and a little draining it was a TOTAL BLAST!

If you listen, note that there is a bit of dead air at the beginning, Hang in there we come on and you don't miss anything.

If you frequent my site, you know that I take photographs, lots of photographs. I started my project 365 back in February, but even before that I would often be shooting the world around me. Just a guy taking photos. Pushing them out to you, nobody outside my small band of readers taking much note. And I am cool with that.

But, wait. There's more. I got an email last week from babble.com asking if I would allow them to use a photo I took on the first day of school 2007 as part of a feature article regarding No Child Left Behind. My first impression was, "Huh? Who's photo?"

If you don't know, Babble is an online parenting magazine. You might remember them because a couple years ago they were part of a dust-up over.... well... photo usage and permission. Oh well, clearly they asked for permission in this case.

They sent me a copy of the article to look over to make sure it was something that I would be alright having my photo associated with, and while it might not be the most balanced piece ever written I agree with the article for the most part. So I told Babble to run with it.

I don't get a dime from the usage, but that's alright. It is exciting just to see my photo on a quality site like Babble. The image is right at the top of the article with the little "Photo: Pat Glennon" on it and there's a link to this site on the last page of the article. How cool is that?

So, go check it out. You can read the article, and more importantly, see my photo on the Babble site starting today!
http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/Mance/Reform-School-How-No-Child-Left-Behind-ruined-American-education/

It's even on the front page

http://babble.com

(although not on the little scrolling image headline thingy. Hey Babble, let's get on that - my daughter is cuter than Lisa Loeb!)

I want the Buzz to thrive. I want it to be a success.

To do this it needs us, it needs to grow. The Cre8Buzz blog has been chronicling the Re-Do efforts. Take two on getting the site right and growing.

Well part of that is getting some fresh talent as users and making this place hop.

Well part of that is me hyping membership. I love it here, others probably will at least like it too!

Five people have signed up in response to my video post or me asking them in some other fashion.

Take a moment to go say hi and give them some buzz love if you haven't already....

DC Urban Dad... (Dads)
http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/2916

Beeps & Chirps... (Photography)
http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/2914

Sean... (30-Somethings)
http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/2908

CamraGirl... (Photography)
http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/2906

sjhenry111... (Dads)
http://cre8buzz.com/profiles/2899

Some are still settling in, others have already put up some content. Go make them welcome. Go make the Buzz better.

Thanks.

One thing I loosely promised myself when I decided I was going to blog is that I would try not to post about my blogging habits or blog much about my blog itself. To me it just seems a bit disingenuous. That and oh, yeah I don't think anybody really cares all that much about things like that. But....

I haven't written in a few days, just photos and video, and I do like to sprinkle in some words here and there. Add that to the fact that I saw something this morning I have never seen before and I decided promises, schomises.

You know what an RSS feed is, right? Good. If you don't then that is a whole different post, and one that I don't feel like doing right now. But if you read the same sites regularly odds are you could benefit from subscribing to RSS feeds. I'm no expert, but I could tell you about them a bit, or you could just look it up online. There has got to be a tutorial about the use of RSS for beginners.I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds.

Anyway RSS feeds and a good RSS reader are wonderful tools! That is unless you let them run roughshod all over you! Like I have recently.

I have about 130 feeds in my reader. I don't read every entry from ever site that winds up in my reader but I do check in on it often and usually keep up with it pretty good. The last week or so though. Yikes... 200 unread, 300, 400, 750... and when I opened my reader this morning 1000+. That's right "1000+", not 1003 or 1054 or 1992, just 1000+. Google can't even be bothered to keep an accurate count anymore.

Now, I'm not a total slacker. I have actually read many of the 1000+ I just didn't mark them read. But I also know that in that portion of 1000+ that I actually have not seen yet there is some gold. Some great posts. But frankly I don't know that I have it in me to find out. This is looking more and more inviting....

"Mark all as read". Fresh start, clean break. Oh so tempting. Wait! Is it a trap? Will I be riddled with guilt? Will I have missed that perfect post? Will I be able to sleep at night?

OK, I've thought about it for the last 30 seconds and. Kablooey! Blown up. Just did it. Marked all as read. And so far... it feels OK. Cool.

So if you haven't seen me around your site and were wondering if I was still alive and well, know that I had a bad case of unreaditis, but a simple dose of "Mark all as read" has just now cleared it up. Just don't be mad at me if I didn't comment on that totally awesome post you put up in the last week or so. I might not have seen it.

Now, all I have to do is tell you all about how my blogroll is a total disaster and how I need to get it in order (oh no, that's another post about my blogging habits or about my blog..... promises schomises, right?).

Originally posted @ http://annoyinglyboring.com/

Alright, here goes... stream of consciousness time...

I was summoned for jury duty this week. Well, the summons came months ago so technically that isn't true. But you know what I mean.....

I was to report at 8:00am to the Plymouth (Massachusetts) Trial Court. This meant that I would probably have to go to bed sometime sooner than 2:00am-ish for once. Rats. My oldest actually asked when he saw me at 7:00am fully dressed, "What are you doing up?". Hmmmm, guess I am not a morning person.

I had never been to the Plymouth courthouse (I stay out of trouble!) so I didn't know what to expect. When I pulled up I was quite surprised at the newness and beauty of the building. My tax dollars at work!

I reported into the jury pool room and checked in. The court officer who was in charge of the jury pool indicated that there was only one judge doing trials that day since the others were busy doing arraignments (busy Fouth of July weekend with lots of arrests). This bode well for a quick release without having to actually sit on a jury.

While things shook out and we waited to see if we would be impaneled the court officer told us we had about 90 minutes to ourselves. We could take walk, go get a bite to eat or whatever. Just be back in the pool by 10:30.

I immediately thanked myself for bringing the camera. I could roam the grounds and shoot photos! Whoo-hooo.

As I mentioned the building was attractive so I figured I would get a Project 365 http://annoyinglyboring.com/project-365/ shot, and maybe a shot for the Daddyshack Photo Scavenger Hunt http://www.flickr.com/groups/daddyshack/ (one of the items for the week is Architecture). I took about 40 photos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonpat/sets/72157606031512630/

When time was up and I was heading back into the courthouse the security guards stopped me and asked why I had been taking photographs of the courthouse. I guess I made them a bit suspicious. I don't think they quite understood when I told them "it's what I do." I explained, or tried to, about my blog and my project 365. I may as well have been speaking creole. Oh well, they just looked at each other and let me go on my merry way back to the jury pool.

Turns out that all the cases that may have been before the one judge working trials that day either were settled with a plea bargain or continued to a later date. No trial for me.

So off to home I went happy to have done my service, and knowing I am off the hook for the next 3 years.