My friend Char­lotte Hume star­ted blog­ging at exactly the same time I did. My blog is a series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants in the dir­ec­tion of journ­al­ism and new media.

Hers was an attempt to engage other par­ents with the prob­lems of mak­ing her 7-year-old son, Fred­die, eat his veget­ables — an attempt that would run through the veget­able alpha­bet track­ing pro­gress along the way. Con­tinue read­ing →