“Another week goes by, kicking and screaming, with a plastic bag around its neck.” -Hank Harrison (when told that these quotes are posted on the blog, he further commented: “There you go. That way nobody will ever see it.”)
March 19th, 2004
Read...Some of the more cutting edge alt-weeklies are posting stories to their website as they break — a great way to deal with news that breaks on inconvenient dates for our print schedules.
March 19th, 2004
Read...Great research tool, this. Google has launched a beta version of a localized Google search. Searching, for example, funerals and San Antonio, Texas gives me a list of yellow page entries to the left of the screen, and a list of websites to the right. Both lists were very accurate listings of San Antonio’s funeral [...]
March 19th, 2004
Read...In my never-ending quest to get a decent Google ranking, I discovered that my site has now been tagged a “liberal-leaning blog site” in the Google directory of blogs. Meaning, of course, that that description has replicated itself all over the web. But to some advantage — I found LauraFries.com listed as one of the [...]
March 18th, 2004
All right.">Read...“ALTERNATIVE WEEKLIES BUCK NEGATIVE TRENDS, SAYS JOURNALISM STUDY Source: Journalism.org An increase in outlets for journalism has meant static or even shrinking audiences for most news sources. The only sectors experiencing growth are “online, ethnic and alternative media,” according to a report issued today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report also said “alternative weeklies [...]
March 16th, 2004
Read...“We are entering an age where every citizen will have the means to speak her mind in a public venue. Weblogs are the voice of the people, connecting millions of individuals to their own audience on a daily basis. But what does this communication sound like? Radio Vox Populi is a realization of the people’s voice, [...]
March 14th, 2004
Read...Good advice
March 13th, 2004
Read...“It’s as quiet as a mouse, peeing on cotton.” - Hank Harrison
March 10th, 2004
Read...Last month, President Bush’s Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called America’s largest teachers’ union a “terrorist organization.” Why? Because the union had the gall to insist that President Bush live up to his own promises to adequately fund education. Please sign our petition demanding that President Bush fire Secretary Paige. http://www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1 This is typical behavior for [...]
March 9th, 2004
Read...Mother Jones seems to think that labs and labs full of scientists working on top-secret biodefense projects could actually be a bad thing. Suggesting that perhaps a race to develop the deadliest bioweapons is actually a scary thing for human nature. And that perhaps, we won’t be able to control our own experiments: < blockquote> ” In the [...]
March 7th, 2004
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