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Weblogging

Introducing ThoughtCast

The site I’ve been working on for the last few weeks, ThoughtCast has now gone live. This site will feature weekly interviews, packaged as podcasts and conducted by Jenny Attiyeh, a professional broadcaster who was worked with the BBC, as well as NPR. Jenny’s first podcast is an interview with Ilan Stavans Latino and Latin-America literature critic and author […]

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Specs

Knots

I’ve been quieter than anticipated this week, primarily because I’m working on a very long essay, which I should be able to post tomorrow. I hope so because I need to finish my work for Roger at JournURL especially since I keep causing him work (”Say, Roger, you know wouldn’t this be nice if…”) Beware you sons […]

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Weblogging

This is not news

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Andrew Orlowski published an article at the Register titled “Blog Ambulance Chasers”. In it, he quoted my recent post, Stop, as well as Seth Finklestein’s London Bloggings and Blog Evangelism. Orlowski wrote: No human disaster these days is complete without two things, both of which can be guaranteed to surface within 24 hours […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley

Good-bye old blue

This week is going to be a busy one. I’m canceling my internet and cable a week from Monday, so I need to spend time this week getting addresses and locations and this and that to have on hand when it’s gone. Not to mention finishing up some tasks for which I was hired. This […]

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Just Shelley Photography

A quiet moment of rain

Hurricane Dennis turned to Tropical Storm Dennis and finally to Tropical Depression Dennis where it made its way, directly, to some of the most drought plagued areas in the country. The Missouri bootheel has received about 4 inches of rain, and we in St. Louis have received close to 2 inches. Not a heavy rain, […]