Etaoin Shrdlu

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30398632012-01-23T10:55:55.350-08:00Etaoin ShrdluA place to talk about the changing news media landscape.Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.comBlogger9621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-69132565736093454012012-01-23T10:55:00.001-08:002012-01-23T10:55:55.888-08:00@davewiner Re your comment about idealists, here's a self-portrait from a few years ago :)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-83122696893329108172011-12-31T18:31:00.001-08:002011-12-31T18:31:26.612-08:00Ending 2011 on an agave note

Barb samples Tequilas before dinner at Maya Huel. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-16572653341607199222011-12-22T09:43:00.001-08:002011-12-22T09:43:36.361-08:00Refugio and Ester with his citizenship documents

A moment of great joy and pride for us all. The USA is better off because of this new citizen. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-56846691494597520412011-12-21T09:48:00.001-08:002011-12-21T09:48:43.446-08:00Moments from citizenship

At the Sacramento ceremony for 1,770 new Americans. So emotional. So wonderful. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-3573911938833615202011-12-20T18:47:00.001-08:002011-12-20T18:47:35.663-08:00California's Christmas tree (and Capitol)

on a cool slightly foggy December 20. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-74965399240375209312011-12-18T11:33:00.001-08:002011-12-18T11:33:30.921-08:00Vaclav Havel: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world

Requiescat in pace Vaclav Havel 1936-2011"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Either we have hope or we don't; it is a dimension of the soul, and it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, and orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-43603717794682404562011-12-11T16:12:00.001-08:002011-12-11T16:12:13.138-08:00You kids get off of my lawn

Did you know you can design and order traffic signs inexpensively online?I've become that guy, preparing this week to put up signposts and warnings along the vineyard road that runs by Redwing Ranch.With the now-bankrupt Renwood vineyards across the road now in the good hands of Rombauer Vineyards, activity has increased dramatically. This is good news; we are grateful to have the vineyards in

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-45905016802975489782011-12-09T08:06:00.001-08:002011-12-09T08:06:02.029-08:00Vinyl revival

Music at the new Insight Coffee (1901 8th Street, Sacramento) is vinyl. I feel young. Nice espresso, too. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-74340720445255336872011-12-07T17:05:00.001-08:002011-12-07T17:05:43.751-08:00Why the idea of a businessman-president is laughably wrong-headed (especially now)

In addition to being a prize-winning screenwriter and nascent creator of compelling TV, my friend Joe Acton has spent 40 years as a successful entrepreneurial businessman. Almost alone amongst my acquaintances -- almost all of us somebody's employees, though some are executive employees -- he knows the sweaty reality of performing without a net. So when he sent me this long rant and was too lazy

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-48595376920140631002011-11-23T11:27:00.001-08:002011-11-23T11:27:08.792-08:00Royal California Surf & Gun Club

Spotted in downtown Sacramento. No grizzlies, no surf, plenty of funs. Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-18873964215078928792011-10-06T11:20:00.001-07:002011-10-06T11:20:34.574-07:00Steve Jobs narrates "The Crazy Ones"

As John Gruber said, "Heart breaking. Awe inspiring." (The commercial itself was narrated by Richard Dreyfus. Jobs is a thoroughly professional piece of voice talent here.) http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-narrates-the-crazy-ones/ ♨ More about me at http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-19032450540601306262011-10-03T09:40:00.003-07:002011-10-03T09:40:08.296-07:00@mattcutts Thought you might find some inspiration here for your challenge.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-30857099149431655972011-10-03T09:40:00.001-07:002011-10-03T09:40:05.204-07:00@mattcutts Thought you might find some inspiration here for your challenge.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-74304541354185407812011-10-01T16:54:00.001-07:002011-10-01T16:54:38.961-07:00Burn the witch!

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-76864991942384165752011-10-01T11:50:00.001-07:002011-10-01T11:50:57.193-07:00Our new girl: MT @laurijowen: Wish for someone cool to hang with? Consider shelter/rescue pet—save a life, enrich yours

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-61724798747159856052011-10-01T11:46:00.001-07:002011-10-01T11:46:07.753-07:00There is certainly a novel or movie inside this photograph. Listening @greatdismal? (Nigeria, 2008 by Pieter Hugo)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-17664054861520388212011-09-22T13:03:00.001-07:002011-09-22T13:03:08.358-07:00"Science is the only news..." So true today.

In a meeting all morning; just heard about the neutrino/speed of light findings and immediately remembered this: "Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness. Even the technology is predictable if you know

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-87017116069238387202011-09-17T12:58:00.001-07:002011-09-17T12:58:18.920-07:00In Fiddletown again for the Fiddlers Jan

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-63224725576902765752011-09-17T09:59:00.001-07:002011-09-17T09:59:55.438-07:00Yesterdays chainsawing is tomorrow's warmth.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-88360715315530761512011-09-14T15:26:00.001-07:002011-09-14T15:26:32.179-07:00Here is the Texas governor rejecting the science of climate change while his own state is on fire

Thomas Friedman:"Remember the first rule of global warming. The way it unfolds is really 'global weirding.' The weather gets weird: the hots get hotter; the wets wetter; and the dries get drier. This is not a hoax. This is high school physics…" Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-68220769506262359362011-09-04T20:04:00.001-07:002011-09-04T20:04:10.490-07:00A great cartoonist. Parkinson's. A graphic novel. Brilliant. http://goo.gl/DCZL0

Peter Dunlap-Shohl is an artist, thinker, philosopher — and the best cartoonist Alaska's ever produced. The onset of Parkinson's Disease, slowly robbing him of the muscular control that made his drawings, seemed especially perverse and cruel.Well, of course it is. But that's not *all* it is. It's also fueled a multi-year creative burst unmatched in his career before disease. And now it's

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-59736532296764914472011-09-04T11:20:00.001-07:002011-09-04T11:20:35.393-07:00Noticed this shopping list for upcoming girls-only camping/hiking trip from my house. Essentials.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-34352776826154200652011-09-04T11:04:00.003-07:002011-09-04T11:04:48.691-07:00Two reasons I like living in California's Central Valley:

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-80468576138192222642011-09-04T11:04:00.001-07:002011-09-04T11:04:38.432-07:00Two reasons I like living in California's Central Valley:

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-83481944860956122212011-09-03T16:25:00.001-07:002011-09-03T16:25:09.500-07:00Every Labor Day weekend sidewalks at Fremont Park are decorated to raise money for school art programs.

One of my worst autocorrect disasters yet. The original post of this item had been autocorrected to read "desecrate" rather than "decorate."No, no. I love the annual "Chalk it Up" event at our neighborhood park. Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-63289987081751429552011-09-03T16:16:00.001-07:002011-09-03T16:16:40.190-07:00Every Labor day artists desecrate the sidewalk at Fremont Park to raise money for school arts.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-9562955769278106602011-09-02T17:19:00.001-07:002011-09-02T17:19:36.881-07:00Patio sky view, Hot Italian, Sacramento

Waiting for friends. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-72161896682704628082011-09-01T18:34:00.001-07:002011-09-01T18:34:04.220-07:00Norman rules the sidewalk in our neighborhood.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-33929820494295504352011-09-01T15:29:00.001-07:002011-09-01T15:29:36.335-07:00Juneau woman saves her dog from a bear with a well-aimed punch. http://www.adn.com/2011/08/31/2041534/juneau-woman-saves-her-dog-by.html

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65116643367439768312011-08-30T08:33:00.001-07:002011-08-30T08:33:22.941-07:00I need some online marketing advice about my book, please

I need some online marketing advice, please.My Alaska journalism memoir (“Write Hard, Die Free”) is to be released in the spring. I plan to supplement and support it extensively online, and it's time to establish the website for that. I can’t afford the domain writehard.com, which is being offered for $1,400 by some reseller, and the domain writeharddiefree.com (which I do own) seems too clumsy.

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-10678176759118762172011-08-28T19:34:00.001-07:002011-08-28T19:34:58.173-07:00Big shock: "Powell says Cheney taking. Heap shots in book"

Just about what you'd expect: http://news.yahoo.com/powell-says-cheney-taking-cheap-shots-book-151449860.html ♨ More about me at http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-59444972177241263682011-08-27T18:42:00.001-07:002011-08-27T18:42:54.294-07:00How do you get high school boys to do this?

Folsom varsity players, pregame at Grant. Honestly, wassup with this? ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-56235173736186330272011-08-24T14:33:00.001-07:002011-08-24T14:33:14.130-07:00Yep, ATT'a proposed purchase of TMobile is as scummy as you thought

This report from freepress.net on Huffington Post has all the pointers you need to come to the right conclusion. The $39 Billion purchase sucks up money that ought to go to improving conditions for phone users, not AT&T executives and shareholders. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-saldana/losing-on-the-facts-att-t_b_933576... ♨ More about me at http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-6887437911634465602011-08-20T20:07:00.001-07:002011-08-20T20:07:05.097-07:00Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the constitution, None are good, some are horrible.

The story with details is here. Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-70239543404529652892011-08-20T08:54:00.001-07:002011-08-20T08:54:47.971-07:00Find a central metaphor that's so good everything aligns to it. Design meetings are no longer necessary...

Alan Kay is one of the genuinely seminal thinkers behind everything we know today as personal computing, starting with the work at Xerox Parc that inspired the desktop metaphor, mouse as input device, and etc. I just came across this page where Andy Hertzfeld (a Macintosh programming legend) shares the notes he took at an Alan Kay talk in 1982. I think they're still deeply insightful and

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-89506314586252940302011-08-17T20:19:00.001-07:002011-08-17T20:19:01.199-07:00Twilight in the West; goodbye to another day

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-75072408397024349672011-08-17T15:55:00.001-07:002011-08-17T15:55:53.488-07:00Great day in the Sierras

Spent part of yesterday hiking cross-country through the granite at about 8,000 feet off Hwy 88 toward Carson Pass. Were field-testing the new pup Betty, who did great. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-89833825988466900922011-08-17T07:22:00.001-07:002011-08-17T07:22:26.566-07:00McClatchy commentary: only one side refuses to compromise

"The truth is that only one side is refusing to compromise during our national financial crisis, and that is the Republican side. That is not a partisan conclusion; it is a demonstrable fact" http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/17/120716/commentary-why-wont-the-gop-comp... Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-38504285932679220962011-08-14T10:28:00.001-07:002011-08-14T10:28:36.906-07:001964-65: Beatles once, Rolling Stones twice. Jealous? Yeah, a little.

While going through old photos looking for material for my journalism memoir we came across this scrapbook from Barb's girlhood in Southern California. Two Rolling Stones concerts (including their first-ever in the U.S.) for a total ticket price of $8. She recalls the Beatles weren't much more.In Alaska, we got the Turtles. Once. After they were famous. Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-51592372983429667062011-08-13T10:23:00.001-07:002011-08-13T10:23:19.194-07:00Texas Gov. Rick Perry "revels in a muscular brand of ignorance"

"Perry revels in a muscular brand of ignorance (Rush Limbaugh is a personal hero), one that extends to the ever-fascinating history of the Lone Star State. Twice in the last two years he’s broached the subject of Texas seceding from the union. “When we came into the nation in 1845 we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation,” says Perry in a 2009 video that has just surfaced. “And one of

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-81840098513381757972011-08-11T14:59:00.001-07:002011-08-11T14:59:03.008-07:00On Writing

I highly recommend this Slate article by Michael Agger on how to become a faster writer. It's here: http://www.slate.com/id/2301243?onswipe_redirect=no And then there's this much more realistic portrait of the craft: ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-84120909424565359122011-08-10T07:34:00.001-07:002011-08-10T07:34:37.550-07:00Message from Anonymous: Operation Facebook, Nov 5 2011

I have no direct knowledge of the authenticity of this video or about the claims that it makes. i don't know if it really is from Anonymous, and I don't know if what it says about Facebook is accurate. But I do sense a deep truth in this regardless of the specifics. This feels to me like one of those moments of insight in great cyberpunk where you are sure you have just glimpsed the future.

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-78784003235301482272011-08-09T12:12:00.001-07:002011-08-09T12:12:45.799-07:00Can the U.S. Government pay its debts? Well, who prints dollars?

"Many economists argue, essentially, that the United States isn't going to fail to pay its debts. "The debt is issued in dollars. That means it is payable in dollars. The U.S. government prints dollars," wrote Dean Baker of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research Saturday. "This means that if for some reason the government was unable to tax or borrow to raise the money to pay its debt

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-33989953712509514862011-08-05T11:31:00.001-07:002011-08-05T11:31:50.744-07:00Wikipedia Says It's Losing Contributors : NPR

We are not replenishing our ranks," said Wales. "It is not a crisis, but I consider it to be important. via npr.org Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-90345109306159025752011-08-04T09:24:00.001-07:002011-08-04T09:24:22.136-07:00Seeing is believing? Not so much: check these special effects from Game of Thrones

I loved reading the Game of Thrones series but haven’t had a chance to see the show yet (seeing as I don’t have HBO). I wondered how they’d manage the blend of commonplace with fantastic.Very well, it turns out, and here’s a short video showing some of the visual effects done by BlueBolt. Information about Howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-32573574012167232122011-08-02T19:05:00.001-07:002011-08-02T19:05:47.853-07:00Proclaim the Militant Cyclist Manifesto (stylishly) with one of these

http://frozengrin.blogspot.com/2011/08/endangered-cyclist-this-is-what-all.html ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-58564203198410953532011-08-02T16:53:00.001-07:002011-08-02T16:53:39.157-07:00Why the debt hostage situation we just went through wasn’t a one-shot deal...

The most honest man in Washington did some more truth-telling on CNBC last night. Speaking to Larry Kudlow, Mitch McConnell made perfectly clear that the hostage situation we just went through wasn’t a one-shot deal. It’s the new normal...http://zite.to/oVll31♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-25792836324185310612011-07-31T09:53:00.001-07:002011-07-31T09:53:29.248-07:00Social media is about "connections... and the ceaseless flow of time"

Insightful commentary from Paul Ford; much more at http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/paul_ford_facebook_and_the_epiphanator_an_end_to_endings.html"Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-82523203075258385242011-07-30T19:19:00.001-07:002011-07-30T19:19:04.279-07:00Head Shots: a cartoonist's take on the debt debate

http://frozengrin.blogspot.com/2011/07/head-shots.html ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-85478920655067086852011-07-30T13:04:00.001-07:002011-07-30T13:04:10.446-07:00Wonder why music affects different people differently? Science may know.

Being a particular fan of both Barber and Glass, I was intrigued by these findings and what they suggest. You might be, too. "What's that sound? It's your prolactin & dopamine talking in response to music." http://bit.ly/i33nOs ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-17945904892353994262011-07-30T12:44:00.001-07:002011-07-30T12:44:29.020-07:00James Gleick has a useful overview of the current crop of Google books at the NYRB

Smart enough to grasp the basic issues, fair enough to summarize them and their critics, Gleick's overview -- drawn from reviews of a half-dozen current books -- is a good introduction to a subject I think needs attention: Google's march to global information hegemony. how-google-dominates-us http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/how-google-dominates-us/?page=1 ♨ http://flavors.me/

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65129708583125203362011-07-30T08:00:00.001-07:002011-07-30T08:00:54.702-07:00GWB was president eight years and added $7 trillion to the national debt ...

... so, honestly, where were all the cries for a balanced budget amendment then? Can this kind of hypocrisy actually work on Americans? (I fear the answer is "yes.") http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/us-national-debt ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-44462785886799093692011-07-29T17:14:00.001-07:002011-07-29T17:14:44.217-07:00An illustration for our newspaper motto in 1976: "Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger"

This discussion of the motto we adopted for the Alaska Advocate in 1976 is taken from my forthcoming book about the Alaska newspaper war: Write Hard, Die Free. There's a sample chapter here. We tried to make our intentions clear. Early on we seized on a motto suggested by a Daily News colleague and attributed variously to everybody from Mark Twain to Abbie Hoffman: Sacred Cows Make the Best

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-79947790098552497542011-07-29T09:51:00.001-07:002011-07-29T09:51:26.451-07:00"Man, fuck cancer." "Seriously."

It's hard to "like" this post about cancer, but it's powerful and well worth looking at. Lanes via xkcd.com on 7/28/11 Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-2247220132556038512011-07-27T16:40:00.001-07:002011-07-27T16:40:18.968-07:00How "The West Wing" nailed the debt ceiling issue perfectly -- in 2005.

How The West Wing nailed the debt ceiling issue in 2005. Perfect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5igKuNF1rI&sns=tw h/t ckrewson ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-42033033222355809192011-07-27T08:25:00.000-07:002011-07-27T08:26:00.658-07:00New York Times parodies its own anonymous source standards:

This anonymous source attribution in this New York Times story is like a parody: worse than no standards, this is pure laziness and expediency. Do they think we're stupid? “There were concerns about him being named and the way he was parachuted in,” said one of these investors, speaking on condition of anonymity because he prefers not to discuss the issues with the news media. “These concerns

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-20029983498345421852011-07-26T09:04:00.001-07:002011-07-26T09:04:28.617-07:00Please don’t discuss the debt ceiling with me until you’ve examined this chart.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65285052279605035242011-07-24T07:43:00.001-07:002011-07-24T07:43:58.583-07:00Sunday morning: beach, fire, Labrador, sailboat

Taken at Lisabuela Park Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-82775586260368479662011-07-23T20:24:00.001-07:002011-07-23T20:24:24.993-07:00Yeah, guns are the answer: 5 dead, 3 wounded at Texas roller rink shooting

Texas, of course, has some of the loosest gun laws in the country, which may have something to do with the fact that the shooter happened to be armed at a roller rink birthday party. ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-8032913827894852402011-07-22T17:47:00.001-07:002011-07-22T17:47:55.001-07:00Encounters with a Terrible Mind

After brief exposure, I can say two things about "terribleminds," a blog I recently encountered written by a freelancer who calls himself a "pen monkey":1. His writing style is too frenetic and often somewhat precious for my taste; and2. He comes up with insights I find highly original and useful to me in thinking about evolving media.Not always, which is hardly surprising. After all, I'm just

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-74812201707165953052011-07-21T13:32:00.001-07:002011-07-21T13:32:12.908-07:00First time I've seen this bumper sticker (Woodinville WA)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-15830323707059849502011-07-21T08:12:00.001-07:002011-07-21T08:12:51.591-07:00Deadwood meets Citizen Kane? Yes, please.

https://twitter.com/#!/tcarmody/status/91941258230104064 ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-45890672690416918412011-07-21T07:41:00.001-07:002011-07-21T07:41:51.207-07:00Why partisans view mainstream mdia as biased and ideological media as objective (yes, you too)

"Perhaps the most crucial determinant of perceptions of bias in the news, however, is the extent to which news coverage is seen as disagreeing with one’s own views. Individuals who feel most strongly about an issue tend to see their own side’s views as being more a product of objective analysis and normative concerns, and less influenced by ideology, than the other side’s views (Robinson, Keltner

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-72374681039064626842011-07-20T15:28:00.001-07:002011-07-20T15:28:30.096-07:00Definition of optimism (Seattle version)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-24136742831064620682011-07-17T12:36:00.001-07:002011-07-17T12:36:04.097-07:00Stairs up from the beach. And up. And up.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-23072880071914275882011-07-17T08:32:00.001-07:002011-07-17T08:32:40.937-07:00She can't really do the NYT puzzle. Plus, those are my glasses.

> > > > God daughter. > > ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-62107295436085318672011-07-15T13:47:00.003-07:002011-07-15T13:47:40.017-07:00I'm still looking for Alaska photos

As I mentioned recently, I need your help finding photos of Alaska journalists, newspapers, politicians and the like for my forthcoming book on the Alaska Newspaper War, 1972-1992 (or shortly thereafter). If you have anything you think might be of use, can you please contact me soonest and let me know? Thanks. howard.weaver (at) gmail.com ♨ http://flavors.me/howard Posted via email from

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65085878222460356072011-07-15T13:47:00.001-07:002011-07-15T13:47:39.099-07:00I'm still looking for Alaska photos

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-88475283142360694152011-07-14T11:03:00.001-07:002011-07-14T11:03:20.187-07:00A rainbow of six-year olds aboard Mv Tillicum enroute to Vashon.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-91017624281445297022011-07-12T19:11:00.001-07:002011-07-12T19:11:57.313-07:00Please help: I need your photos of Alaska and our newspaper war from 1972-1992

I need photographs for use in my memoir of the Alaska newspaper war between about 1972-1992. I hope some of the Alaskans who read my stuff here can help. I'm especially interested in photos that showcase personalities from Alaska media in those years, as well as selected politicians who helped shape the news in that turbulent period. Photos illustrative of key events — building the trans-Alaska

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-31344550115906825242011-07-12T09:30:00.001-07:002011-07-12T09:30:54.215-07:00Your mission, should you choose to accept it... (I'm in)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-36550660935844419912011-07-11T08:31:00.001-07:002011-07-11T08:31:14.879-07:00At the Graveyard of the Pacific, four surfers out today

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-85663808184950270452011-07-10T08:27:00.001-07:002011-07-10T08:27:55.795-07:00Customer feedback form, Fishtails Cafe, Newport OR

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65166580764568284782011-07-09T19:27:00.001-07:002011-07-09T19:27:13.533-07:00Barb introduces our Lab, Jimmy Carter, to the ocean near Yachats, Oregon

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-14812444808622246312011-07-08T15:19:00.001-07:002011-07-08T15:19:21.961-07:00Patricks Point State Park (CA)

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-19411949777225485662011-07-08T13:06:00.001-07:002011-07-08T13:06:07.035-07:00Home at long last: Weaverville

Taken at Weaverville CA Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-15212766657554714172011-07-06T08:57:00.001-07:002011-07-06T08:57:04.887-07:00About Casey Anthony: Convict the guilty or protect the innocent?

How smart were our Founding Fathers?John Adams on the relative importance of convicting the guilty versus protecting the innocent: "It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-73825956345527362542011-07-05T16:02:00.001-07:002011-07-05T16:02:20.775-07:00iWeb screenshots

916.531.4561Information about Howard See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from tester

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-34720942292566538192011-07-01T08:10:00.001-07:002011-07-01T08:10:25.039-07:00Busy overnight: long-jawed orb weaver is my guess. What'd you think?

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-19595253123251519442011-06-28T15:23:00.001-07:002011-06-28T15:23:15.003-07:00These clouds are called "mammatus" because, well, you know.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-46272146855624154692011-06-27T15:22:00.001-07:002011-06-27T15:22:17.044-07:00Drums & Bugles: Missing only mom and apple pie.

We attended the Moonlight Classic drum and bugle corps competition at the University of the Pacific in Stockton last night: 13 competitors, probably 2,000+ participants from around the country: Renegades, Vanguard, The Cadets, the Blue Devils. Pictured here is The Phantom Regiment, Rockford IL, the third-place finisher and my personal favorite. Discipline, precision, musical chops and

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-71983770823811384512011-06-23T11:49:00.001-07:002011-06-23T11:49:26.300-07:00Spent morning pulling snags from pond. Unlike book negotiations, you can see what gets accomplished.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-24288087234596384422011-06-22T16:27:00.001-07:002011-06-22T16:27:42.263-07:00Happy bees under a buckeye tree at Redwing.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-21470707166138696182011-06-18T20:52:00.001-07:002011-06-18T20:52:01.861-07:00Twilight sky, northward

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-55511230152382924022011-06-18T10:42:00.001-07:002011-06-18T10:42:33.171-07:00Marine general: "keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people..."

Words of wisdom from four-star general David M. Shoup, hero of Tarawa, Medal of Honor winner and Commandant of the Marine Corps. He said this in 1966 as the war in Vietnam was building; I feel certain he'd have said it about Iraq, and probably Afghanistan:“I believe if we had, and would, keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed,

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-65374936231203131672011-06-17T20:05:00.001-07:002011-06-17T20:05:03.713-07:00One last photo of Lucky, walking with me last winter in Snoqualamie

No better proof that life is unfair: in a just world, dogs would certainly live longer than men.Adieu old friend. More about Howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-19445218946575196022011-06-17T17:25:00.001-07:002011-06-17T17:25:27.055-07:00View from beneath Halle Norne, our great oak, where Lucky like to lie and scan the skies for the raptors he ceaselessly warned away from his domain.

Taken at "Halle Norne, the Great Oak, Redwing Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-51831532112373068972011-06-17T17:04:00.001-07:002011-06-17T17:04:00.797-07:00A tribute in our vacant skies

Rising thermals from the river valley here on warm days makes Redwing Ranch prime soaring territory for hawks and vultures. Today they're absent, a tribute perhaps to the vigilant shepherd whose life's work was to warn them away from his domain. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-82795391494374024652011-06-17T14:20:00.001-07:002011-06-17T14:20:53.741-07:00The loss of Lucky

Our beloved shepherd Lucky died this morning. Years after being told he soon wouldn’t be able to walk, it finally came true. Though he was vigilant until the end, he was distressed when he was unable to patrol his rounds or chase the birds away from Redwing Ranch. The enormous vigor and vitality that defined him finally were exhausted. Known in our pack as Lucky the Lionhearted (The First of

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-46120819971253188572011-06-14T17:19:00.001-07:002011-06-14T17:19:08.876-07:00Piece de resistance for my pickup

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-48795258619098106272011-06-10T20:10:00.001-07:002011-06-10T20:10:29.980-07:00Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, songwriters.

Taken at Radisson Hotel Sacramento Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-45286312159049715022011-06-01T09:31:00.001-07:002011-06-01T09:31:11.518-07:00Must read for hockey fans: the goalie skates ...

On my friend’s birthday, I embarrassed him with a Facebook post of a newspaper photo that shows him scoring on an under-the-leg shot in college hockey. Lots of hilarity ensued, most of it interesting only to those of us who know Joe, Alaska hockey, or both. But one of Joe’s recollections from the comment stream ought to be of interest to every hockey fan, everywhere. I’ll let him tell it: The

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-2544109174556379082011-05-28T14:45:00.001-07:002011-05-28T14:45:43.834-07:00Comics journalism: nuanced reporting in primary colors

I had a chance at the Knight Journalism Fellowships program this week to see Dan Archer pitch his ideas about how comics journalism can help sort out and explain the most complex topics. Human trafficking? Bear Stearns? Economic meltdown? I’m excited to see where his work goes in the future, when he plans to combine the simplicity and bright colored comics format with multimedia, imbedded

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-88602463034098438022011-05-27T08:59:00.001-07:002011-05-27T08:59:16.659-07:00McClatchy Hall, Stanford

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-61663423443870341642011-05-27T08:57:00.001-07:002011-05-27T08:57:54.485-07:00Communications, Stanford

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-89250534824921282242011-05-27T08:56:00.001-07:002011-05-27T08:56:45.286-07:00Morning, Stanford

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-71813021804817134302011-05-26T16:43:00.001-07:002011-05-26T16:43:31.414-07:00Jim Bettinger introduces inaugural session.

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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-26057795065473704522011-05-26T16:29:00.001-07:002011-05-26T16:29:28.913-07:00Yeah, ivy is nice and all that, but Stanford *is* beautiful.

Taken at Stanford University Posted via email from edge & flow

Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-24122675615147469652011-05-26T10:57:00.001-07:002011-05-26T10:57:06.405-07:00In town for Knight Fellowship meetings.

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