I’ve seen this billboard in a couple of cities lately and had a chance to take a picture of it today in Chicago. I guess I think it’s interesting that AT&T is advertising that they deliver blogging. I think I also saw somewhere that they may be delivering it but they aren’t “doing it.”

It’s back on the road this week. I’m off to Chi-town and Milwaukee for some great meetings and discussions. Lots of talk about this new media thing we’re doing you know. This means a little bit of light posting until probably tomorrow.

I thought I’d get all caught up from travel this week early and post some nice articles for you today. Maybe that will still happen.

It was just last May that I was at the NRECA Legislative Conference and met with CEO Glenn English.

I hadn’t really thought of what we’re doing here at ZimmComm this way but a recent comment from one of our reader/visitors got me to thinking. He said, “You guys have got one heck of a good suite of sites going yourself.” A suite of sites (blogs). A suite of ag blogs. Is that what we have?

If you plan to stay in Clive, IA you may want to consider an alternative to the Country Inn & Suites if you need high speed internet access. For the second time in the last month their internet access has gone out. But thank you Panera Bread (University Ave). Free Wi-Fi. Although I did order an I. C. Mocha Cappuccino and a french bread roll.

I’ve been wondering for a while what exactly a “carnival blog” is since I see it referred to a lot by a blogger I subscribe to. He writes about the Carnival of the Capitalist in particular. Then this morning I noticed a comment on a recent post of mine that’s from one of these blogs.

If you surf around long enough you’ll always find something interesting. For example, the WordPress software I use has a nifty little feature that shows you websites that are linking to you yours. I haven’t looked at this in a long time. Lo and behold there’s new ones.

The Rose Bowl will be played shortly so how much more timely could this post be about the Governator waging a little promotional bet with his counterpart in Texas?

There’s a nice article on Chief Marketer that contains reasons for blogging. These apply to any company in today’s world, even you farmers who are trying to market your products in the global economy. The article is written by Bob Cargill. He lists 10 reasons you should consider blogging: