Coyote Crossing

It’s Carl Buell’s birthday

Carl with a short-faced bear acquaintance. Painting by Carl Buell. Reproduced here without actually technically asking permission.

Our friend Carl Buell has completed yet another revolution around the sun. His blog’s been dormant for some time,

Hey, desert-related blogs!

There are a whole lot of slots waiting to be filled in the Nature Blog Network‘s largely deserted Desert category. At the moment, it’s just Coyote Crossing and the wonderful Desert Survivor blog. Getting listed there is a great chance to get some

Friend or fan

It’s been an interesting week here thinking about things online.

It started off with a coffee date with my pal On The Public Record, whose blog of the same name is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of California’s arcane water policy.

Michael Gordon’s Joshua tree photos

One of the people I met this weekend out in Kelso is Michael Gordon, an outstandingly talented desert photographer. Michael’s been capturing images of Joshua trees that put mine to shame. (Though you should still buy my Joshua tree

Blog design note

I’ve reinstalled “gravatars”, which allow you to have an avatar on your comments. Right now any comments by people who haven’t registered a gravatar (Globally recognized avatar) will bear the default Coyote Crossing icon, which is cool enough. But

A TLD for the rest of us?

Could you read this in two years at the URL http://www.coyotecrossing.y!sctp?

Imagine a top-level domain (TLD) reserved for independent bloggers, possibly reserved for independent and progressive bloggers, possibly reserved for independent and

It’s kind of a dull whooshing sound.

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In Search Of

It’s been a number of months — no, wait, almost two years — since I indulged in subjecting you all to the found poetry to be found in this site’s search strings.

Clearly this cannot stand.

I went through the top few hundred and picked out the

Zeke has a Facebook page

For those of you on Facebook, consider checking out (and becoming a fan of) Walking With Zeke’s Facebook page. We’re sharing dog photos over there, and an excerpt from the book every few … (continues)

This is different from Obama putting your grandmother on an ice floe.

I told Grrlscientist that I’d have a post up today encouraging you all to go vote for her so that she can get a free trip to Antarctica. This isn’t the post I’d hoped to write about that, but it’s been a hell of a day. So let me just say this: If

Carnival of the Arid #6 coming up

The sixth Carnival of the Arid, the blog carnival devoted to the deserts of the world, is coming soon. However, the deadline is a leisurely 8 days away, which means you still have time to get your desert-related blog posts, podcasts, photo essays,

Pointer

Getting a bit of traffic today from PZ, so it’s as good a time as any to remind people to go check out one of my “day jobs,” DesertBlog.

We’re also still looking for more environmentally concerned folks to contribute to our group site, The Clade.

More blog improvements

Tags: As I mentioned a couple days ago, Coyote Crossing now has tags. On the home page sidebar you’ll see a list of the most-used tags, each of which you can click to get to a list of articles tagged with that tag. A list of all tags is here. On

Coyote Crossing infrastructural improvements

I’m working on a few things to make the sometimes arduous task of reading Coyote Crossing a bit more userlicious.

First, please to note the handy pull-down menu in the right-hand sidebar near the “search” field. This contains links to monthly

Expanding my stranglehold on desert-related new media empires

The estimable Larry Hogue has taken leave of his communications consultant job at the Desert Protective Council, and the DPC has asked me to take his place. Not that I could replace him. But I’ll do my best.

The gig, a part-time consulting deal,

Quietudinousness

I know I haven’t said much around here of late. This’ll be short too, but I wanted to shake the crickets and tumbleweeds out of the blog briefly and ask you all how you’re doing.

What’s been up:

- The Raven had a week of vacation, much of which

Random corroboration

You find some nice things when you set up a Google Alert for the name of your … (continues)

Coyote Interviewed

Ava from Paw-Talk interviewed me this weekend, and the result is now readable on her site. Check it … (continues)

The Clade is Launched

Go see.

(I’m already at work on the redesign: the response from contributors tells me some way of keeping things on the front page longer than a typical blog layout allows will be helpful. But not just … (continues)

Pointer

I’ve literally been pulling 20-hour workdays getting The Clade up, so not much in the way of writing from me here. (It’s not self-sacrifice: I can use the site as a piece of my web site building portfolio.) Even before launch, contributors have