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Nothing to see here Almost literally. One problem is that I watched several minutes of the terrible Monday Night Football game this evening. The Bears really don’t belong on national TV. But the larger concern I have is over the bundling of information, cable-TV style. Comcast owns the cable franchise here in San Francisco, having [...]

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Sunday night supper Any event which makes you forget that tomorrow is Monday, and you’re back to work again, is worthy of repeating. I just enjoyed dinner with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law and their spouses and kids. Chaos, of course, with six adults, five kids (and one on the way), but a reminder why extended [...]

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44 reasons… …why Hanan Cohen doesn’t write a weblog. [from Scoble] I haven’t yet read all 44 reasons, but I skipped to the bottom (to make sure there were 44 reasons), and I appreciated this, which Cohen borrows from another blogger (linking appropriately): Do not assume, not even for a second, that because you read [...]

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Google News One year old, Google News attracts attention and speculation from the media, which eye it warily and longingly: competition or traffic source or both? Here is a long interview of Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News at USC’s Online Journalism Review. Like others in the media business, I’ve paid attention, but I don’t [...]

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Competition is a good thing Just found this link to NewsFan, a new MacOS X newsreader application. I have no reason to switch from NetNewsWire, but always curious.

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Wrong Ever say the wrong thing? I thought so. Let’s leave it at that. In other news, my sister pinged me via Yahoo Messenger today. Glad she did, and we’ll see if it happens again. Of course, she was online with the idea of chatting with her new significant other, so I only distracted her [...]

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Another one in media My brother turned an internship with the Jackson Hole News & Guide into a full-time job, mixing newspaper layout responsibilities with some reporting on the side. Good for him, and I hope he enjoys the work. I’ve never been to Jackson Hole, but I would think it’s a fun place to [...]

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BOOK: The Reverse of the Medal I feel like I’m not reading much at all, but I guess I am getting through a few pages after all. Reading is often the most selfish activity (apart from blogging?), so I feel like I need to steal minutes here and there for it. Those days when I [...]

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Politeness Been answering a lot of reader email over the last few days (for work… answering reader email from this blog wouldn’t take but a few minutes). It can be a struggle to stay polite, but it’s amazing to see how surprised readers are to get a response from a human to their complaint/comment. That [...]

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BOOK: The Bear and the Dragon Tom Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon is the most recent book I’ve finished. Picked it up in the airport, all 1137 pages of global military events cascade along. Clancy expects that readers know who Jack Ryan — still President Ryan here — is and what’s he done. Various [...]

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