Happy New Year! / Happy New … uh … blog …

Wishing you and yours the best this year.

And while you’re here, please visit my latest excuse not to leave the house: Cultured Wino, a wine blog.

Elsewhere on the web

• Via Anil Dash: Understanding Language: The best explanation I have thus far seen about why Ebonics is a good thing.
• Pew & the State of Blogging by Kaye Trammell (and a related blog post from the Industry Standard).
• "What Once Was Good–or Good Enough–No Longer Is" by Jay Posen looks at why newspapers are losing ground online (and my own related post about why newspapers don’t “get” online).
• Molly Holzschlag reveals the “Untold Mysteries of CSS.”

And, if you haven’t done so already, please donate to one of the following charities to help South Asia’s tsunami victims:

• Red Cross
• Unicef
• Oxfam International
• Doctors Without Borders
• Habitat for Humanity