I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.

I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle.

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.