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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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Writing

Lessons learned from radio

Recovered from the Wayback Machine Before people run off into the wilds of technology with the newest and latest way to communicate, in this case podcasting, a few lessons to be learned from predecessors in the art. When was the last time you read something that was written a year ago or longer. Recently? Did […]

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Writing

Perhaps a fall after all

Off to the Ozarks today to see if the color has progressed there. A few more photos from my recent excursion. I can only process a few at a time as my disk space is maxed on my computers, and the Nikon RAW image format, NEF, takes up an enormous amount of space. I need […]

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Books

Spirit Cane

My brother asked me what I wanted to keep of my father’s and I answered without hesitation, his cane. Upon further reflection, I also asked for his books, and I’ll borrow the photos long enough to make digital copies. I bought Dad the cane years ago when he starting slowing up a bit, at the […]

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Just Shelley

Slipped out of time

My favorite place is not at home in front of the computer, or out on some trail somewhere, taking photos. It’s not in any city or town, in the country, or along the water, though you get close with the latter. I am in my car, but being in my car doesn’t make it my […]