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Posted on 25th July 2004
Americans Don’t Read
Last month, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of a new study: “Reading At Risk” .Its findings, which are significant, and alarming, are as follows:
The percentage of adult Americans reading literature has dropped dramatically over the past 20 years.
The decline in literary reading parallels a decline in total book reading.
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Posted on 22nd July 2004
Who Needs Blogs?
While mining for anything about blogging and the Democratic National Convention, I stumbled upon another consideration. Some people are asking: “Who needs blogs, anyway?”
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Posted on 21st July 2004
Art of Speed
The Art of Speed has run its course. In the blink-and-miss world of hit-and-run publishing, this fly-by-night commercial blog by Nike has already done what it came to do.
Luckily, you can still read what’s there, if you’re interested. It doesn’t really need to be something you get on-the-fly. (ok i’ll quit with the hypens)
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Posted on 20th July 2004
Kinds of Journals
I have discovered a few different kinds of journals:
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Posted on 19th July 2004
The Boston Weblogger Meetup
Well, I’ve been invited so I guess I’ll attend The Boston Weblogger Meetup on Wednesday, July 21st.
They’ve got this funny little thing called meetup.com, which is a lot like evite.com, and it manages the RSVPs. kinda cool. I don’t have any idea what to expect with a bloggers meetup, but hey, I’m a stranger in [...] -
Posted on 18th July 2004
creative problem continued
Several days ago, I posted some sloppy notes about the craft involved with the management of a project like this website. I have since recieved some comments. One of the comments, I deleted. It said: “have you considered therapy,” which I take to mean that my post must ahve appeared very scatterbrained [...]
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Posted on 18th July 2004
Enabling Inhibitions that Enable
I just got off the phone with my Dad — can that man ever talk! Don’t get me wrong its not like the annoying parent phone calls you see in the movie where the poor protaginist sighs and says “oh brother” ACtually I prefer talking to my Dad over almost anyone else.
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Posted on 18th July 2004
Amazon.com: What is a Plog?
I’m not even sure where I want to begin with this. Is it silly that Amazon is drawing this rediculous name-dropping attentionto what is essentailly the same old marketing? Is this the beginning of the blog-trend-gone crazy? Why can’t we simply understand that an electronic document is an updatable one, and get on with our [...]
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Posted on 17th July 2004
Look! Pictures!
photos from my social circle
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Posted on 17th July 2004
website update
Not quite one week after I penned “This is not your television” in an attempt to escape the confines of my visual obessions, I’m at it again.
I read a book last weekend, and it taught me some things. For my work at Eastgate, Mark suggested that I use “A List Apart”’s reseources to surmount a [...]
