Month: July 2005
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Baseball’s conscience finally gets his due / Communist ties obscured Walnut Creek retiree’s success fighting racism in the sport
Lester Rodney Baseball’s conscience finally gets his due / Communist ties obscured Walnut Creek retiree’s success fighting racism in the sport
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Lester Rodney and Disruptive Journalism
Lester Rodney, at the time a sports writer for the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper published in New York, was pushing for the desegregation of baseball long before Jackie Robinson pulled on a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Sunday about the now-retired Rodney, and their Back Story Podcast has…
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Delicious Behavior
I’ve stopped using Delicious as a publicity tool. I was tagging my own posts profusely when I had written something I wanted to advertise a little, but when I decided that My Delicious would be put to better use to actually tag pages I wanted to read, reference, and share, I went ahead and deleted…
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FoxSpace: Media Consolidation or Rupert Buys A Clue?
NewsCorp Buys MySpace. NewsCorp = Rupert Murdoch Media Triglomerate, parent company of Fox News, Star Wars, and the New York Post, among others. MySpace = Social Networking (or Data Mining, depending on who you ask) site, with bloggish functions, a little bit of free music flowing, and a bunch of old friends who seem to…
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News Corp. to Buy Intermix Media for $580 Million
Fox Buys MySpace News Corp. to Buy Intermix Media for $580 Million
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Trackback Spam Dead, Deceased, Null, Is No More.
Whoa, I guess I found something that works. Bad Behavior killed all that ridiculous trackback spam I was getting whining about. Every last bit of it. Thanks, Mike!
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Intersection for the Arts – Awards & Grants
due January 31, 2006 Intersection for the Arts – Awards & Grants
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Installing and Using Bad Behavior on WordPress – IO ERROR
Installing and Using Bad Behavior on WordPress – IO ERROR