This is a great freaking idea that I wish I had stolen — my friend Bill Simmon at Candleblog is asking all of his readers to send photos of themselves that he can publish in a Candleblog collage. I sent in my photo already. My snapshot from last year shows me in a helmet at the Higgins Armory in Worcester, MA.

I’ve also really enjoyed Andrew Sullivan’s The View From Your Window series. I like seeing the offline world reflected online. I’ll probably try something like this myself when I have a little more time and energy, possibly this summer.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...