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Loose Talk of the Town

Spread It

Facebook often is positive, and rightfully so. A Brick from 11 months ago supported that: The Future Just Showed Up: Like. Facebook is not all feel-good happy talk but controversy and deliberate negativity get moved down and out quickly — posts get “hidden” and friends become “unfriended.” My last weekend post fell in between. Sunday […]

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3 Cheers for Saturday

What, not four? Others are punditing U.S. economy very well. Why there’ll always be real estate agents and contractors In the HomeStyle section of the Saturday regional/state paper is the weekly Personal Space brief. Most weeks the subject, who is asked about her or his home and some biographical information, maneuvers to plug their business […]

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Technical Difficulties

Blog On, Blog Off

This column first was published in the August 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Instead of polishing this column, I should be sewing nametags into my clothes, shaking out my sleeping bag for WordCamp. If I showed up with that stuff, even the geeks there would laugh. We’re all geeks at WordCamp. […]