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Diversity

Amazons raise your shields on high

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave quotes a posting from Tara Sue, who writes:   My friend Ross and I have a lot in common. We both come from military families–his cousin and uncle serve and my brothers are soldiers. We were both raised by our father. And we share many ideas in business and politics. But there […]

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Weblogging

Skeletons in the closet

I had not looked at the negative consequences of Talkback, and appreciate those who have taken the time to point them out. Geodog wrote:   But I think of comments as ephemeral, and strongly contextual. Plus, as Gibbon might say, some things are meant to remain veiled in the decent obscurity of a obscure format. The […]

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RDF Writing

Ooo boy

I sent a note to the RDF Interest Group today, telling them about the draft of the book. I’ve already received some excellent feedback. Some people climb mountains. Others scale rock cliffs, or dive the deepest depths of the ocean. Still others race cars at 180 MPH, ride bulls, or sail across the ocean in a […]

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Just Shelley Writing

Hiho it’s off to edit I go

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I kept waking up last night with answers to the questions from yesterday’s interview popping into my head. The experience is comparable to a web bot being sent for information and returning two days later. Nice, but a little late. I’m feeling more than a little tired today, so not […]

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Weblogging

Globble globble

And this week’s award for best irony goes to… …Me! For being underjoyed about the Blogger + Google deal; for discussing some of the negative consequences of the deal; for demonstrating, visually, a sense of perspective regarding “world” and “world with blog” and… …still managing to capture the top search position at Google for the […]