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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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Weblogging Writing

What it is

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My philosophy as I begin this new journal can be found in the movie, “Six Days and Seven Nights”. In the movie, the main character, Quinn (played by Harrison Ford), is a rough edged island society drop out who flies a beat up old plane between Tahiti and a tropical […]

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Writing

Silence of the blog

Rob writes: As places writers can find themselves, this is one of the worst. You can be a writer. You can be a friend. Rarely can you be both at the same time.

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Writing

I’m not Okay

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Don’t come towards me. I’m not okay. When did okay stop being a word? Every spellcheck in every application I use now tells me okay is not a word. OK is a word. But OK is an acronym for okay. Isn’t it? Or was I brought up wrong? When did towards stop being a word? The […]