Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Top Posts in 2012 (The Year the World Did Not End and Anyway I Kept on Blogging)

What is this "Madam Mayo" blog all about? Dear reader, it has been nearly 10 years since I started blogging and I am still poking at that question. As "Madam Mayo" evolves, one thing I do know: while the majority of my posts point elsewhere on the web, to my books, articles,  guest-blog posts, and podcasts, I continue to post here every Monday and oftentimes more often, and on many an occasion it is original content. 

Having listed the top original posts for 2015, 2014 and 2013, I hereby continue to mosey on back towards the Big Bang of March 2006 with this list of top posts of original content for 2012.

That year my posts were mainly short and link-rich, in the style of economist Tyler Cowan's "Marginal Revolution" or designer Tina Roth Eisenberg's "Swiss Miss"-- two blogs I continue to follow. I was still running guest-blogs-- a fashion that has since faded among writers with a book to promote (and that would include myself). I also note my deepening fascination with podcasting. Not reflected in this selection is that in 2012 I was occupied with reading and researching Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual, and with producing my two podcast series, Conversations with Other Writers and the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project, about which I did blog and often. 


December 31, 2012

August 15, 2012

May 17, 2012

Monday, December 06, 2010

Blogs Noted: University of Chicago on Friedrich Katz, Rachael Laudan on Mexican Potatoes, Joe Ahearn's Bat Terrier, Quarterly Conversation & more

University of Chicago News
Friedrich Katz, the great historian of Mexico, has died.

The Smartly NY
Deborah Batterman on (Un)American Activities

Rachel Laudan
On why Mexican potatoes are so lousy

Colonial Mexico

Conduit of Joy

John Cleese on Creativity
(video)

109 Year Old Man
(video)

Eddy & Schein
10 Mistakes to Avoid (note especially the one about ID.)

5 Ways Augmented Reality is Making Your Life More Sharable

History Unfolding
What You Learn in France

Pen Hallow Press
Independent publishing and letterpress publishing

The Quarterly Conversation
Fall 2010 issue

Eternal Earthbound Pets
Not a blog but, oh well, maybe when the Rapture comes...

Answers from SilenceAn enlightened take on 2012

Bat Terrier
Joe Ahearn's blog

www.core77.com
A good on-line design mag.

http://jbrae72.popslice.com/07.-videos (video) San Francisco earthquake footage.