links for 2009-07-11

• Ann Arbor Area Events & Activities for Preschoolers
  I am a stay at home mom to a 3.5 yr old. I have been living in Ann Arbor for 6 years. I have been tracking events of interest for our playgroup for a few months now via a Word document. I decided it was time to go "public" with the list. Way back in college, I minored in computer science and am always online now. So a website, Twitter account, Facebook group, and blog seem the way to go.
  (tags: events annarbor preschool kids ical calendar)
• 10 Reasons Your Mother Is Unverified Voracity | mgoblog
  Though I'm not entirely opposed to this style—witness this very post—most of the blog's popularity derives from columns titled things like "Teeth and Blood" and "You Were Killed By A Bear And I Am Sad" and 5000-word exegeses on half of a Michigan football game, which are neither search engine- or link-friendly. With some limited exceptions (like throwing the name of each committed recruit into the post title, and providing SEO-friendly headlines for actual news posts) my philosophy has been to make the content as good, and as difficult to replicate, as possible. (Evidently I feel a good, weird title goes a long way.) The cookie cutter is eschewed.
  (tags: blog web inspiration mgoblog ann-arbor-school-of-blogging)
• the imponderabilia of actual life: Libraries & State Parks - Hammocks Subject to Availability
  If you're in Michigan and you have a library card (and if you don't have a library card, what's wrong with you?), there's a great deal going from now to the end of September, combining two of my favorite things: books and nature. You can go to your local library and get a free pass for any state park (98 of them!), good for seven days (usually there's a $6 vehicle fee, unless you've got an annual pass). It's part of their new Park & Read program:
  (tags: library books parks michigan park-and-read superpatron)
• Musematic » ROFL…just read this facebook post from my friend Becca
  Becca: Hey, I just saw this thing on the television, it’s called the “news” or something like that-these people sit there and read stuff that’s been on the internet for days already. Has anyone seen this? I hear they talk about the weather too, but I left before finding out.
  (tags: television internet news future)
• YouTube - Saving Newspapers: The Musical
  This is a redux of #79. The music is the same, but I enlisted the lip-dub and acting chops of my friends down at the East Bay Express, the local alt-weekly here in the East Bay. Yay!
  (tags: newspaper musical future youtube via:bluepencil)