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Where’s the touch screen

Very interesting takes on being both a technologist and a parent of a small child. Karl writes of his baby daughter Emma: Emma is now very, very aware of her surroundings. Her smile fills up my heart like nothing else. She’s shares it all the time now – when she recognizes faces, hears voices in the […]

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Diversity History

What a wonderful treat

Monthly I get a fresh batch of downloads at eMusic. I don’t have the largest plan–the most I can download is 20 at a time. Usually this is enough for an album with maybe a few experimental downloads from unfamiliar groups. I think it will be years before I manage all the jazz downloads I […]

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Mix and Match

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been up working since 5 and it’s a beautiful day and should take a walk. Couple of things first. In comments, Chris Heuer writes: Funny how the ‘marketing people’ are still thought of like used car salesmen. I’ve never considered marketing people equivalent to used car salesmen. I even admire marketing […]

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Books Religion Writing

A story in parts

I’ve linked to 3 Quarks Daily before, and it has fast become one of my favorite sites. It’s up for a couple of different Koufax Awards: Best Group Weblog and Weblog Best Deserving of Wider Recognition. This quality site needs some votes, so take a few minutes and send an email with your vote for 3 Quarks […]

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A pale moon’s shadow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeneane writes about lazy aggregator people, and the loss of community because of RSS aggregators. Her solution is for everyone to bring back the blogroll. Ralph agrees, stating that feed aggregators reduce every site to a dull grey lowest common denominator…. Both talk about the disruption in conversation that reading feeds in aggregators […]