I’m a Media Darling!

July 9, 2006 | 1 comment

screenshotIn an effort to drive more traffic to this blog, I got my post “Here Lies Lay” approved for inclusion over at Thought Mechanics.1 Then, whaddya know, the next day I get an email from TM’s Theron Parlin telling me that the post got them a cameo on the NBC Nightly News.

If you want to see the webcast, you can do so here. The only bummer is that the post’s appearance comes at about 18 minutes into the 22-minute webcast, and there’s no way to cue forward or backward on the video clip. NBC wouldn’t want you to miss any of that newsy goodness just because you’re on the web.can’t anymore.2

I briefly wondered why NBC didn’t show a screenshot of the post in its original home here at C&B. My guess is that a) Thought Mechanics is a much more well-known blog brand, and b) it might have something to do with the big headline right under the Ken Lay post that says “Boo-Fucking-Hoo.”

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  1. In 2006, when this post was written, thoughtmechanics.com was an influential progressive blog and a mainstay in the top 100 of Technorati‘s blog rankings. As of October 2011, thoughtmechanics.com is the site of a web design and services company. An hour or so of googling yielded no info about what became of the original Thought Mechanics, nor any trace of Theron Parlin since 2006. I wouldn’t be surprised if Thought Mechanics was bought and folded into the Ariana Huffington web empire, but that’s just my best guess. ↩
  2. The video is, unsurprisingly, no longer on the MSNBC website. This post came very early on in my blogging days, and due to that inexperience it didn’t occur to me at the time to try to download and archive the video clip. ↩
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  1. Sabina’s avatar

    Sabina on July 18, 2006 at 8:19 am

    Congratulations! A relatively new blog, and already you attracted some national attention with your writing? I predict good things for you.

    Keep up the good work!

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