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• World Blogging Tour Thanks to BlarneyCrone #WBT

  

  So apparently there's a movement of sorts, passing the blogging baton from poster to poster, under the rubric "World Blogging Tour. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 BUSINESS

• Megan Wins a Pulitzer for Margaret

  

  If they'd been awarding Pulitzers during her lifetime, Margaret Fuller surely would have been deserving -- first in nonfiction for the ground-breaking books... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 BUSINESS

• MS to the Rescue? A Startling Athlete's Story

  There are few articles about the benefits of MS. When it comes out that I have the disease, there is a standard reply: "You don't look like you have MS." Or:... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 BUSINESS

• A Blast into Network Space with Christakis

  This starts with a Facebook post that's been making the rounds, the one about Stephen Wolfram's new work with a catchy headline that may or may not describe wha... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 BUSINESS

• Boston's Pivotal Role in Anti-apartheid Movement

  This moment, when the focus is on Mandela, and the miraculous victory over apartheid, will only last for a short time. Such is the new(s). Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 BUSINESS

• "What Does December Look Like for You?"

  Is there a good way to respond to this email that came this morning? I've got one. It's in the same vein as my responses to the telephone calls Jeff continues t... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 BUSINESS

• The News Ricocheted off the Walls

  

  I was sixteen, a junior at George School, on this day in 1963. Many years ago, I captured my memories in "The K.O.B," a short story about those initial moments... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 BUSINESS

• "Branded" by (J. Gordon) Lippincott: How NetAge Got Its Logo

  

  I get Mediabistro's daily blast, one of the few email lists that I actually read (relatively) regularly. It's a good way to keep up with industry developments... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 BUSINESS

• The Golden Doris

  

  Waiting now for the full obit that recognizes her achievements and her vast body of work, news from London today via a few paragrafs in the NY Times just now:... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 BUSINESS

• A Crappy Bronco Ride on a Chipped Pony: Advice for Liz's Friend

  "I'm writing for some advice," the note from Liz began. "My friend L is now at the end of the road; likely to die within a few days. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 BUSINESS

• Uh-oh: Don't Catch Divorce

  

  From the department of everything's related to everything and the seemingly endless findings stemming from the Framingham Heart Study, here's yet another... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 BUSINESS

• Unemployed Journalists: Crowdsource That Story!

  

  It had to happen. With few jobs available and fewer projected for the future, what's a good journalist to do? Grow your own. This story slipped past me when it... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 BUSINESS

• Fry It, Flexitarians!

  

  I love Mark Bittman. Just in case there's any confusion, I don't know him. But his practical, flexitarian, a word I hereby proclaim he invented (I have no idea... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 BUSINESS

• Mother's Guilt: "No One Will Trade Lunch with Us"

  

  Of the many things about which I retain motherly regret, none makes me feel quite so conflicted as the lunches I lovingly packed. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 BUSINESS

• "Ducking Grief"

  I just wrote a long post about this haunting column in today's NY Times by K.A. Ledding about the suicide of her teenage daughter and, as I was writing the... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 BUSINESS

• Billionaires Buying into the News(~papers)

  

  When I started out as a reporter, I was hired by The Pottstown Mercury, the newspaper in my small town by the Schuylkill River and along the Reading Railroad... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 BUSINESS

• "I Need Something to Eat" -- Roland's Reflection on the Same

  

  Walking the streets of New York is a game of dodgeball. If it isn't a busker in the subway or a homeless vet on the corner or an activist with a clipboard,... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS

• "The Future of Books"

  

  In gathering info for a report on the future of media, I came across "The Future of Books" by James Warner in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. This pretty much... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 BUSINESS

• What is a Newspaper?

  

  I was chatting with two media advisors earlier today. Clearly, they know a lot about media--both new and old. Witness: Ostensibly, we were talking about planets... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 BUSINESS

• The Rat Cheated: Duke Riley Restages the Race for the Chinese Zodiac #elizastamps

  

  It's a little hard to headline this one. Last year, Duke Riley, the Boston-born, Brooklyn-based artist, with degrees from RISD and Pratt, decided to right a 500... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 BUSINESS