The Linchpen

After three years on WordPress, I’ve finally put a fresh coat of paint on The Linchpen. The theme is called Oulipo and it has a clean, minimalist design.

Long-time readers will remember when this blog started on Blogger in November 2007 — that was design no. 1. The only other time the look has changed since then is when I switched to WordPress in August 2008. So that makes this the third coat.

I initially did some theme previewing and testing on a local sandbox (MAMP, ftw!), but this update is still very much a work in progress as I continue to make tweaks and improvements.

Drop a comment in below (or using this contact form) and let me know what you think. Thanks!

Last week I asked: What did you say when someone asked you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” when you were in elementary school. Below are some answers from Twitter. Enjoy! (Also, feel free to continue the #wdywtbwygu hashtag.)

http://twitter.com/#!/alykat/status/24865749973602304

http://twitter.com/#!/kathleensulli/status/24867424381698048

http://twitter.com/#!/matthewbyrnes/status/24873613823836160

http://twitter.com/#!/excdinglyrandom/status/24892284650651650

http://twitter.com/#!/trishanderton/status/24896231633321987

http://twitter.com/#!/sdoig/status/24912285742931968

http://twitter.com/#!/fricto/status/24914985498972160

http://twitter.com/#!/katdowns/status/24917106692718592

http://twitter.com/#!/suzanneyada/status/24917609505890305

http://twitter.com/#!/davewrightjr/status/24918171098030080

http://twitter.com/#!/RobinJP/status/24922525158871040

http://twitter.com/#!/rosenbaumk/status/24933005969592321

http://twitter.com/#!/megterilli/status/24933641276624896

http://twitter.com/#!/karenkho/status/24933829315661824

http://twitter.com/#!/WithDrake/status/24934657334181890

http://twitter.com/#!/kingkool68/status/24934752645545984

http://twitter.com/#!/RebeccaKesten/status/24935215356977152

http://twitter.com/#!/jmestepa/status/24935809392058368

http://twitter.com/#!/LisaSink/status/24943431558111235

http://twitter.com/#!/williampd/status/24969096722386944

http://twitter.com/#!/JMBorchardt/status/24971075678896128

http://twitter.com/#!/michelleminkoff/status/24971080330383360

http://twitter.com/#!/wcochran/status/24991547237867520

http://twitter.com/#!/greglinch/status/24993955959541762

http://twitter.com/#!/vaguity/status/24996077383983105

http://twitter.com/#!/pergam/status/24997551006556160

http://twitter.com/#!/kimgrinfeder/status/24997950212022272

P.S. I love the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin for WordPress.

UPDATE: Read some of the responses.

Quick thoughts from this evening:

When you were in elementary school, what did you say when asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Do you see any connections between that and your current job or interests?

Thinking about this makes me feel thankful for all the great opportunities I’ve had and continue to have in journalism and technology.

UPDATE: Read some of the responses.

Today I’m attending the 2010 New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit, organized by J-Lab and hosted at the Kaiser Family Foundation in downtown DC. Follow along with a liveblog and curated tweets:

I’ll be gathering tweets and posting updates from the Poynter programming for journalists/journalism for programming seminar (see previous post) in this CoverItLive blog.