Eek, sorry for the intermittent upgrades
I’m told by my hosting service that they’re upgrading some fancy-word-or-other for a thing-I-don’t-understand, and that the upgrade is an emergency security upgrade after…
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My suggestion to @MotherJones on how to handle twitter and rape
Update: For more on this issue, see the following posts. For a broader look at constructing a relationship between readers and writers when covering…
Read MoreThe most entertaining 22 minutes on American radio
After all that, I needed a change of pace (see, “Self-care to prevent self-pickling”), and a friend mentioned in an email this radio program,…
Read MoreNot sure how to feel about your despot? He’ll tell you.
Graeme Wood has a freakin’ pitch-perfect piece on the Central African Republic in Foreign Policy’s failed states issue. It’s old news to those of…
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Disclaimers, comment policy, and other sundry blog-admin things. All views expressed on this website are my own and should not be interpreted as representing…
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This video makes it clear that, one, Newsweek is not so lame a place to work as those old white male columnists might make…
Read MoreComing Soon, or, this is a teaser
Things have been quiet here, on and off, for a month or two, and they’re going to stay that way as I finish up…
Read More"You're totally wrong," or, how I can single-handedly diagnose and save all of journalism
Here’s a description of what one new media guru (who’s actually kind of an old dude, so take hard, Old Guard of a Dying…
Read MoreBack to your comments…
Sorry, friends and strangers, about the delay on comment posting. First it was a tech problem, and then a problem of my own time,…
Read MoreHold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…
Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor….
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