Daily Archives: May 25, 2006

Blawgers 1, NYT zip

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2006

Denise has a good post at Corante about a New York Times Style article that stylishly engages in a little blogger bashing, an article that fails to use information from Dennis Kennedy that would have made it even more stylish and more informative.

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Homo Loquax

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2006

Today Doc Searls sent me a URL for the 35th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, delivered by author Tom Wolfe last week. So begins a May 16 post on the Krugle blog by Chris Locke. I’ve admitted shame-facedly that I don’t use an aggregator. Even if I did, how could I possibly read everything of [...]

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As good a time as any to Save the Internet

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2006

[From Tim Karr] A critical vote is going down in Congress right now and we need you to get phones ringing off the hook on Capitol Hill. The House Judiciary Committee is beginning to “mark up” a good Net Neutrality bill at around 11am (EST) this morning. Then they’re going to vote on whether to [...]

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Nantucket

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2006

Beth said, “When we go to Woods Hole this fall, let’s take some time and visit Nantucket.” “Only if we can have a Limerick writing contest,” said I. And speaking of Limerick…

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