Journalism Ethics

Here’s an article exploring whether ethics are missing in citizen journalism. Sorry, Pam Gaulin but I’m basically not accepting the premise of these types of articles. I think the question is whether the people who are trained in journalism and get paid to do it have ethics. Which group has been failing the nation most [...]

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Another Big Weekend in the Grand Strand

Once again, we had a big weekend. Actually, it was all yesterday. Today consists of sitting on the couch watching the Braves at the Rockies.
First up, we went to the grand opening of a new art gallery in Murrels Inlet, ID Studios. That was a fun time, with a guitar and standup bass duo [...]

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0 to $10,0000

Over on Full Tilt Poker, my man Chris Ferguson is in the middle of an interesting experiment. He is trying to turn an initial $0 stake into $10,000. He writes up his progress here, which includes some very good rules for bankroll management. Ferguson is my favorite of all pro players which makes sense because [...]

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Flying Wind Farms

I love this idea of the flying wind farms (which I found at Make). At last, the Twenty-first century gets a good science fictional idea to kick around. At first glance I thought this was going to include microwave transmission of the power back to the ground, but this plan has a tether that both [...]

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15 Vonnegut Quotes and More

I’ve grown very weary of these interminable top N lists of things, but here is a rare one I cared about and enjoyed. The Onion AV Club has a list of the 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else. Good stuff. On Bob’s Slacktime Funhouse recently, the Lymph Node Institute did two shows [...]

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Downloads are Not Public Performance

Derek sent me this link about the ruling by a judge that downloads are not considered “public performances” for fee collection purposes. I don’t know the final results that will shake out from this, but it seems like the first court ruling in a long time about the digital world that didn’t come down on [...]

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Two More Possums

Two More Possums

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The possum fun continues. The trap went off this morning and I had caught two of the damn things at once. At least this spares me one drive to the river. I don’t know how many more of these things [...]

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EGC Clambake for April 24, 2007 - “The Business Plan is Love”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 24, 2007.
I play a song from Dead Heart Bloom and give a shoutout to the Large Hearted Boy blog; I talk about Dan Conover’s post about newspapers entitled “What if the Business Plan was Love?”; I discuss sentimentality and the [...]

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Grand Strand Residents and Bloggers, Pipe Up!

Hey there, you residents of the Grand Strand. I’m asking a favor of you. If you do live in the area, leave me a comment on this post. If you also have your own blog, leave the URL to it in the comment, please. This is a one time request, after which you can resume [...]

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Tropical Possum Night

Tropical Possum Night
Originally uploaded by evilgenius.

We heard scritching in the attic a few days ago, and I went up with a flashlight and saw a possum in the corner. We got a cage trap, and baited it with tuna. Tonight I saw that it had been tripped and that some of the tuna was gone. [...]

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Blue Angel Killed in Crash

From my part of the country comes this story of the Blue Angel pilot who was killed in a crash at an air show yesterday. Beaufort is on the other side of Charleston from us, down in the bottom corner of coastal SC. The story is amazing to me in that the jet went down [...]

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Techdispenser

I received an email inviting me to join Techdispenser. I was skeptical but I followed the link. At that page currently, there is nothing but an application form that requires your address and information about your site and traffic numbers. From the email:
Introducing Tech Dispenser—Computerworld’s technology blog network and news aggregator powered by the “Human [...]

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Oprah: Flip-Flopper?

Last week I received an email from B&N.com with this title: “As Featured Today on Oprah: Scam Proof Your Life”. Is this the same Oprah who featured The Secret or a different one? Is the first rule of scamproofing your life to not buy any of the Secret products?
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EGC Clambake for April 21, 2007 - “Sex, Cash and Rock n Roll”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 21, 2007.
I talk for a moment about the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech; I play a song from Stardeath and White Dwarfs; I talk about getting a neat email from a high profile Subgenius; I mention hearing a Gentle Readers [...]

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Unnatural Order

In a weird inversion of the way things usually are, I found an example in the wild of Bruce Sterling citing a quotation from me! What’s next, dogs and cats sleeping with each other?
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Rocket City Riot Drops

I feel paternal about this item. A long time back, this podcast was serializing the new Rocket City Riot album one song at a time as he finished them. We were doing a short interview every Saturday, which was a lot of fun. At least one of these was done with John Mark while he [...]

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Project Wonderful

Here’s an interesting project that I found completely by accident. A kind correspondent/listener who sensed I was down and wanted to cheer me up sent me a link to the Crimson Dark web comic. It looked interesting but I wasn’t in the moode to start at the beginning on such a thing right now. What [...]

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Home Alone

I’m on my own recognizance for the night. My original plan for this evening was to go off and see Grindhouse but after the big weekend and also the rock show Tuesday night, I’m tired and ready to just hang around the crib for a quiet evening. I’ve not been blogging much and podcasting not [...]

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Siderunners Final Show

The Siderunners will be having their final show tonight at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago. If you can make it, this would be the one to see. Show starts at 9 PM CDT, 2100 W. Belmont, Chicago, IL - (773) 281 - 4444   It sucks that this is the last one, and it makes my [...]

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High Activity Weekend

No blogging lately. We’ve had a house guest and been busy entertaining around the Grand Strand. Here’s the whirlwind overview of what we’ve done.
We’ve eaten at Bummz; strolled around Broadway at the Beach; gone to Huntington Beach State Park; gone to Brookgreen Gardens; meandered on the boardwalk in Murrells Inlet; eaten at the Divine Fish [...]

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