Monthly Archives: March 2005

Step Up to the Plate

March 30, 2005
Lately I’ve been feeling bullish about leveraging innovations and making them top of mind…
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Start a Blog

March 29, 2005
A couple people have recently asked me about how I got my weblog started, what software I use, how much it costs, and what I would recommend for them. Here is my reply to one of them. If anyone else out there has a favorite blog platform, maybe one that I’m failing to mention, let us know about it in a comment. Or, if you want to take me to task for a shortsighted or misguided opinion, feel free to do so. You won’t hurt my feelings…
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Three Short Short Stories

March 27, 2005
Yesterday my son, Ben, asked if I would write down some stories in his little book as he told them to me. Here are the three that he came up with–in their raw, unedited form. I think you’ll notice his literary influences right away…
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The Ultimate Self-Promotion

March 23, 2005
A “street artist” called Banksy decided to do a little guerilla marketing last week by hanging his paintings in a few rather conspicuous locations. The Wooster Collective website has photos of the art installations, along with this explanation…
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Assorted Links

March 21, 2005
I haven’t been in much of a blogging mood lately, so I thought I’d just dump these links into a single entry rather than writing about anything in particular…
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English Rules Snubbed at the Bloggies

March 15, 2005
In what is widely considered a stunning fulfillment of expectations, the English Rules blog–along with its companion sites Photography, Word of the Day, and Writing Guide–did not win any of 2005′s prestigious Bloggies(tm). In fact, the collection of blogs at englishrules.com was not even *nominated* for an award. Early this morning, site owner and editor Karl Swedberg released a prepared statement to the press, denying any hard feelings…
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Home Improvements

March 9, 2005
Since I finally started chipping away at my list of things left undone, I thought I’d take a look at some other ways to spruce up the house a bit. My wife had heard about magnetic paint a while ago, but she couldn’t find it at any of the hardware stores she tried–even the big boxes…
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NYPL Digital Gallery

March 7, 2005
With the recently opened Digital Gallery, the New York Public Library has given internet users access to approximately 275 thousand images–from drawings to maps, early photographs to illustrated manuscripts. It’s a lot of fun to browse through it, but you might want to make sure you have plenty of time before jumping in; it’s easy to get lost in the stacks. I had planned to show a thumbnail of a few of the images from the site, but after looking at the main Frequently Asked Questions page, I was a little confused about whether or not I was allowed…
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Art Debut

March 6, 2005
A young artist has just burst onto the scene with this stunning work of mixed media. The sophisticated blending of natural elements with manufactured confections is suggestive of early Marcel Duchamp, while the STYROFOAM™ base clearly represents a breaking away from 1990s neo-expressionism.
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Take a Stanza – Man Listening to Disc

March 3, 2005
This idea just popped into my head, and I’m going with it. Once a month, I’m going to post a stanza from a poem–just one stanza, though, because I don’t want to run afoul of copyright law if the poem is a recent one. Okay, if the stanzas are really short, I might include two. And if they’re really long, maybe I’ll select just a part of one. For the inaugural stanza, I’ve chosen a poem by Billy Collins…
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