Just doing my annual check to see who’s participating in NaBloPoMo!

Don’t know what National Blog Posting Month is? My article from last year is a good intro with lots of links and details. (I’m not rewriting it this year.)

I participate every November.…

Well, Bloomberg Business Week has also weighed in this morning on all the technical aspects of trademark protection and the USOC's letter to Ravelry. As other news sources have, they also failed to recognize that Ravelry is both knitting and crochet, but well, like every other newsy source that skipped us, they are piggy backing off the work of other papers instead of checking it out for themselves. If one news source says knitters and the letter from the USOC says knitters, then there’s no…

OK, so I flung my response out there into the blogosphere as well, following up on what Laurie's already well-written, making my point to help represent crocheters in this and link back to CLF.  The funnel must be working, 'cuz my stats show a lot of clicks.  You can read my take on things here - I'm afraid I wasn't super nice and I'd like to point out, knitting once was an Olympic event:…

“Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Are you in earnest?
Seize this very minute;
What you can do,
or dream you can,
begin it;
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe