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Just Shelley

Minnesota’s Fringe Festival

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Birdchick writes on her husband’s participation in this year’s Fringe Festival in Minnesota. The concept of the Fringe Festival is fascinating, and I wish we had something similar here in St. Louis. I gather that every year, people submit ideas, and a lottery determines which are included in the Festival. That’s it: no juries […]

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Diversity Weblogging Writing

Measuring Success

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer. It does no good to do so, I told him. I’m sure he knew that I could not follow this vow. I don’t know if being critical […]

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Books

Book cover

My editor, Simon St. Laurent, sent me a copy of my new book cover. The tagline is currently being changed, but when the art department is finished, I’ll post a copy. It’s a companion book to JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, which features a rhino on it’s cover. So what could be more appropriate for a […]

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Weblogging Writing

What is real journalism?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had to read Jay Rosen’s idea over a couple of times to try to understand what it is he’s proposing for New Assignment. If I read him correctly, what he’s proposing is that someone suggests a story, others in the ’smart mob’ then dig up additional information (”How”, we have […]

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Just Shelley

On Seeing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Editing is going well with the book, other than I have a very tight window. I lucked out with this book and had the best editors–main, tech, and content. Between all of us, I have a high degree of confidence that the final book is going to be something of […]