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Political

Blame Jay

We’ve had an extraordinary and rather unpleasant situation here in Missouri the last few years. Our governor, Matt Blunt, and our State Attorney General Jay Nixon have not seen eye to eye on many issues, and almost any event associated with our state ends up being about the two of them. Leaving aside the fact […]

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Books Writing

With appreciation

his week is the last week for editing on the new book, and the editors are just now finishing up. I wanted to thank the folks who gifted me with their time and effort; providing reviews, technical and other editing, and suggestions. I had a good group of people and the book is going to […]

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Diversity

What Women Want

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Any one of us only knows those in a small slice of this environment. How else? We can’t spend all day and all night reading weblogs. That way lies madness. As an example of knowing only a small selection of the voices, I was only recently made aware of the […]

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RDF

First looks at Joost

s I edited the book today, while the snow blew in an oddly unendearing blizzard–alas, we missed the copper moon–I watched Joost. Specifically I watched a nice show on sleeper sharks, several episodes of National Geographic, and explored a bit with the other channels. A television network hosted entirely through the web (Internet Protocol TV […]

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Social Media

Wikipedia Walking

Seth Finklestein provided great coverage on the recent controversy over Wikipedia editor/community manager “Essjay” (one, two, three, four, five, and six). The gentleman in question misrepresented himself as a tenured professor, both in an interview and in Wikipedia. Rather than show him the door, Jimmy Wales defended him–boys will be boys or some rot. It was only when Wales found […]