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I’ve begun what I’ll eventually look back upon as an odd few months but which now simply seems a bit of a hellish struggle peppered with relief, excitement, and a bit of blinding fear (dude. No. I’m not pregnant. Imagination, people!). I’ll eventually spill all here, but for now, please be patient as my...
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Only the internet geekiest of you will make any sense out of that title, eh? I’ll sum up: I did a test recording on my iPhone today, transferred it to my computer, converted it to mp3 and uploaded it to Tumblr (all in a few minutes; peasy!). Which means I’ll be able to do...
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Yeah, that’s the worst title ever. So I’ve been fiddling around with Tumblr, and I’ve decided I love it. It’s the perfect companion to this blog, and I hope you’ll mosey on over there and follow me. And more importantly, and far more fun for all of us, I hope you’ll chime in over...
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After a remarkably quick switcheroo, the comments here are now powered by Disqus. You don’t have to do anything different to comment, and you’ll hopefully have way more fun doing it. Why the switch? Because I really enjoy our wee community here, and I hope you do too. I’d like to build that community,...
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In the last eleven days I have read 2500 pages of teen vampire drama-romance. What started as an electric devouring of young-adult escapist fantasy ended in a feminist rage. No worries, though; I’m not going to go full-tilt into a feminist rage here. I’ll start on the escapist-fiction front. Stephenie Meyer can spin a...
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I didn’t even realize till Thursday that the office is closed on Monday. Bonus three-day weekend! There aren’t words for how jacked I am about that. (I once told a company-wide meeting at Interweave that I was jacked about the magazine’s redesign . Whole room cracked up. Then people told me I was ...
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I started writing this roundup on the plane to Denver on the 10th. Let the time lag to posting serve as evidence of how busy press week is, and how totally exhausted I am upon my return home. Here’s what I started out with on the 10th: Here I am in a window seat...
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Check out these (short) clips of recent Fox Business coverage of the magazine industry. I read Samir Husni’s Mr. Magazine blog, which is often very interesting. And I’m acquainted with Matt Kinsman, who recently invited me to speak at the Folio Show next month (the topic: Print/web content strategies). But I wasn’t compelled to...
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When I posted the photo below to Flickr for my 43rd day of self portraits, a commenter asked for tips on how to kick the caffeine habit and I thought a proper post was in order. I was advised by my doctor last week to cut out caffeine because I was having benign heart...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about writing. Haven’t been doing much of it, but thinking lots. I’ll have to figure out a good system to keep track of the things I want to write about. For now, here’s what might be incoherent rambling but might make some sense to you. Lemme know. (I’ve Twittered...
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