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  • World gets flatter, film at 11

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    Scoble quits Microsoft, moves back to Valley, goes to work at podcasting start-up. Sounds like a great move, whether or not PodTech.net becomes one of the New New Networks or not. Why? Something I learned working retail: As soon as your boss calls you “indispensable,” it’s probably time to quit, because if they can’t replace…

  • New little camera is impressive

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    New camera = Canon Powershot A530. It’s a humble little point & shoot, but it kicks the crap out of our old one. Then = slow shutter, barely in focus shots, low resolution, nothing sharp, lots of time in between frames. Now… …that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Canon A530. Under $200. Google it, shop around,…

  • My trip to the Resource Recovery Facility and Recycling Center

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    [UPDATE: If you Google “santa cruz dump” then you find this post.  Funny how that works.] First of all, it’s a dump. Seriously. What is this “Resource Recovery Facility and Recycling Center” you speak of, city of Santa Cruz? Do you have any idea how difficult it was to use teh Internets to figure out…

  • The Mystery Spot and other poorly-kept secrets

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    It took me almost three months to finish this roll of black & white film, (That’s the old stuff with the sprocket holes, kids.) but I like what I’ve got, despite having to run everything through a little extra photoshopping to get rid of some weird scanner gridlines that were overlaid on top of everything.…

  • Sending you away so you’ll come back later

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    Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of on-topic stuff,…

  • Our summer houseguest

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    You’ll have to forgive the catblogging, but I have to give some attention to our very orange houseguest, Little Guy. Our full-time cat, Lucinda, is letting him live.  There’s been no physical contact yet, only hissing, growling, and mental gamesmanship.

  • I’ll have to get back to Africa on my own dime

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    Looks like I won’t be spending any quality time with Nick Kristof anytime soon. Casey Parks, a j-school grad student at the University of Missouri, won the trip to Africa with the New York Times columnist to report/blog/videoblog for NYT and MTV. Read her essay and the musings of the other 12 finalists.

  • Learning Flash, vol. 1

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    First attempt, apologies to RSS readers, try not to get dizzy, all photos copyright me, etc….

  • Serendipity on the Web

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    Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…

  • Scary stuff for journalists: the Feds are tracking your calls, too

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    ABC News blog The Blotter is reporting that a “senior federal law enforcement official” told them the federal government is running the whole caller-ID data mining trip on journalists in an effort to track down their confidential sources. Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with…