Tag: this blog
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Get more email from me
You can now subscribe to this blog by email, if you’re into that sort of thing. All of you glued-to-your-inbox types can shift your gaze over to the sidebar, enter your address, and off you go. RSS readers are more than welcome to switch over to the new version of my feed, which might do…
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Header graphic nostalgia
New header graphic and a couple other visual tweaks here today. The image is Somewhere East of Albuquerque, and I took it while driving a U-Haul truck full of all my worldly things, probably on September 3rd or 4th, 2001. It was a little less than five years ago that I met the woman who…
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Site notes
A couple tweaks here lately. I’ve added a feed in the sidebar that pulls in everything I post to my del.icio.us account, and I’m using it to post links to useful and timely things like news stories about the McClatchy/Knight Ridder sale process, webcasts of cool conferences, and blog posts about how to save the…
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About those panel discussions
Last night I attended Who Needs Ink?, a panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers. This wasn’t the first Commonwealth Club panel I’d been to, and the format left me just as unsatisfied as the event I went to last year around this time. I don’t get that much out of hearing four speakers bat…
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The audience question
At some point, I realized that someone other than my mother might actually be reading this blog. If we choose to accept that as a fact, then the following question presents itself pretty rapidly: “Who the heck IS reading this?” Please, don’t answer that just yet. The real question, of course, is “Who am I…
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Light posting, eh?
I realize this blog has been a little content-free lately, leaving my readers (both of them) with little more than the Muppet Wiki to keep them occupied. Sorry, but I’m still far too busy to write anything content-rich, although this does bring up the ever-present question of audience… Maybe I’ll post about that next.
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Writing old and new
Another new link on the sidebar: Other Writing, as in non-blogging. For now, there’s a few assignments from the semester of grad school I just finished, including my first unpublished journalism and a few book critiques. I also included one of my favorite things from my undergraduate years – an essay about the night I…
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Start at the beginning…
[UPDATE: Yes, I wrote this quite awhile ago, and have updated very little I’m in the process of updating it in September 2005 I updated it in September 2005, then touched it up in March of 2006, then again in September 2007, and yet again way out here in March 2009, but man, things move…