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A Tip for Business Owners Navigating in a “Jobless Recovery”
2 comments on A Tip for Business Owners Navigating in a “Jobless Recovery”The economy is sending mixed signals — which at least is an improvement over just a few months ago. Newsweek reports today that “the Fed has become both more optimistic and more pessimistic,” with GNP…
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It Turns Out Today Is My Blogiversary
It must have been embedded in the recesses of my memory, because something just made me check the archives. It was one year ago today that I made my first substantive post on this blog. …
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May 15 Is Writers Worth Day
My friend Lori Widmer is a seasoned writer and blogger, and a tireless advocate of better pay for pixel-stained wretches everywhere. Five days a week she offers brief, cogent (and well-written!) advice to writers and…
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“The Practice of Civility is Important to Democracy”
Mad props to Michael Gerson, who in today’s Washington Post brilliantly articulates the concept I was struggling to develop in my recent post, “Don’t Blame Me for Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You for Michael…
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Don’t Blame Me For Rush Limbaugh, I Won’t Blame You For Michael Moore
Parts of the rightosphere are in high dudgeon about the fact that President Obama, at the annual White House Correspondents Association yuck-fest dinner, laughed at “jokes” told by “comedian” Wanda Sykes about wanting Rush Limbaugh…
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A.T.I.N Has a New Look and a New Address
After a lot more effort than I expected, I’m pleased to unveil version 2.0 of All That Is Necessary. For those who care about such details, I’ve migrated my original Blogger blog to the WordPress…
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Seaman Recruit Harry Kirk Petersen, United States Navy
The other day I sat in a restaurant and watched my son become a man. Harry recently bailed out of college. He was in the third year of a five-year construction management program at Drexel…
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Step Aside, NY Times — Patch Is Bringing Google Zillions to Hyperlocal Maplewood
I got interested in the hyperlocal Maplewood BlogolopolisTM because the mighty New York Times was wading into the fray (and I happen to know the local Times reporter). But it turns out the Times is…
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Looks Like A.T.I.N. Is Going Hyperlocal For A Little While
I’m going to have a followup post later today about Patch.com and (I hope) the Maplewoodian, but in the meantime I want to call attention to Alan Wolk’s fact-filled post about the NYT launch. I…
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Maplewood NJ, Pop. 23,000, Now Has
FourFIVE Competing Local Websites(Don’t miss my followup post about the true 800-pound gorilla of the story. Also, I tweaked this post’s headline and added a substantive Update at the end.) Suddenly the Maplewood hyperlocal web neighborhood is crowded.…