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I’m Not Getting Older, I’m Getting Googler

06/24/2008 (Aging, Changing times, Uncategorized)

Has your reading changed since spending 10 years with the Web? Mine has. Age? Or the Age of Google? Oddly, I read more books now than I have in the past few years. Giving up cable TV helps. But I admit that long, dense reads are a tougher go. In any event, the article below [...]

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At $500 Per Ad Maybe I’ll Run For Office Again

06/22/2008 (Changing times, Politics, Uncategorized)

I guess it had to happen: prefabricated, easily personalized digital ads. And it’s happened for political as well as commercial ads. Check out this video from SlateV.

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Why an Obama Landslide?

06/17/2008 (Changing times, Politics, Uncategorized)

Why a landslide for Obama? That can be a long conversation, and I write short posts. So I point, first, to Frank Rich’s column in last Sunday’s NY Times. He provides a good and readable analysis for the forthcoming tsunami (switching to an oceanic metaphor). Rich also notes the mainstream media will not cover this [...]

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