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Diversity Weblogging

No, that’s not true

Recovered from the Wayback Machine From David Weinberger I found out about a “Blogging for Women and Girls” workshop in Boston. According to the event description: Blogging is emerging a powerful opinion-making force, but though the technology is fairly cheap and widely available, most blogs are still written by men. This workshop will teach women and girls the basics of […]

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Political Voting

Scared into voting

I recovered this from the Wayback Machine in 2023. Boy, I don’t agree with it now. After the loss of women’s rights, rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community, rights for people of color…people had better be scared into voting. — Michelle Malkin points out a flyer making the rounds here in Missouri that …includes a 1960s photograph of a […]

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Weather

Screwy weather

I was reading today in Prairie Point about the Missouri Earthquake of 1811. I had not heard of this before, so checked online and found that there was a series of earthquakes that hit the Mississippi Valley region in 1811 and 1812, and which geologists believe were the most damaging and widespread earthquakes to hit the country. […]

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Writing

What is good journalism

Recovered from the Wayback Machine Taking a break from ‘what is good radio’, I wanted to point out what I consider to be good journalism. Dave Winer is on a tear against the professional news organizations because of an appearance of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. I listened to a recording of this (managing not to hotlink directly to […]

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Photography

Before there were cans

Yesterday afternoon I walked around Forest Park in St. Louis, and today, I went to Horseshoe Lake Park in Illinois. However, on the way today, I spotted a Pumpkin Patch festival and had to stop to check it out. Which is my way of saying I have a few photos to share. (More will be […]