I knew it was going to be a low-intensity day when I woke up to KYW on the alarm clock, and integrated a story about lightning knocking out the E-Z Pass connection on the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge into my dream. Except, in the dream, lightning was shooting out of the E-Z Pass. Not the first time I have wondered if dashboard technology is secretly trying to kill us.
Stubbornly, I'm refusing to remove "weekly" from the masthead of the spinme.com newsletter, despite missing most of June. I'm such a bad publisher. But I'm getting back to a routine where I'm publishing short links to Twitter and longer essays to spinme.com, then busting out the weekly e-mail version to the few thousand folks who still prefer that to RSS. Now that the new home office has been constructed, this should be a more achievable task every Wednesday.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to leave spinme.com a Michael Jackson-free zone, at least for now. There are plenty of obvious angles for great posts, but it's so hard to look past the hype into anything meaningful at the moment. The biggest story that few of us are talking about is how the publishing catalog that MJ almost squandered will form the foundation of his "Family Trust."
Does the Trust become something that supports and evolves a new generation of savvy, business-minded heirs? (Pritzkers?) Will it fuel the Jackson kids through an unsupervised hell ride of a puberty? (Hilton?) Or does it become a social charity, like Hershey? Very few clues. However, most of my readers are still trying to sell out their first coffeehouse gig, so I'm going to reserve my thoughts on that for my personal blog for right now.
The Posterous experiment's working well, except for some weird formatting issues on yesterday's post. I'm wondering if there's a way to use MarsEdit on Posterous when I'm working on my Mac instead of my iPhone? Composing blog posts in Mail.app is nice, but I have some muscle memory from MarsEdit that I don't want to re-learn.
