Monthly Archives: January 2011

Progressive Collation

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2011

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up. Hunter S. Thompson The Columbia Journalism Review has cranked up The News Frontier Database, “…a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country.” They launched with a list of about [...]

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Angelheaded Hipsters

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 29, 2011

…reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio –Howl Looking for some online clues about Newt’s intention to announce for the [...]

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More about Zuck

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 28, 2011

“Does he give Gen Y a bad name as a pompous millennial, with a robber baron mentality or is he an American hero and inspiration?” – Under30CEO You can click on the above picture to display it full-sized in all its snarky goodness. I ran across it on Facebook so I have no clue regarding [...]

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Martin Luther King’s 1967 Riverside Church Speech

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 17, 2011

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam Delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr April 1967 At Manhattan’s Riverside Church “OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, [...]

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Are you prescriptive or descriptive?

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 17, 2011

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. – Joshua Leonard The first issue of Popular Linguistics, an online magazine, is now available for people who enjoy that sort of thing. For me, an unbridled malefactor in the realm of lay-lie-lay, an unapologetic apostrophe punter, and some would [...]

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The war on nutz

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 16, 2011

You can’t be friends with a squirrel. A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. – Sarah Jessica Parker Corporate white-hat hackers and the Mossad have set back Persian plans for nuclear bomb production by at least three years according to an article in today’s New York Times. Fact checking the Times puff [...]

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BJ Fogg’s top ten mistakes of behavior change

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 15, 2011

I met BJ Fogg in 2004 or 2005 at an “Accelerating Change” conference. I thought then that his study of “persuasive tech” was creepy. Bringing the tools of networked communications to those who would modify the behavior of large masses of people smacks of miscreance. “Persuasive technology” was all the rage in the GW Bush [...]

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Be a better blogger bubba

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 14, 2011

Oh my oh my… Meanwhile, in real life, I’m returning to work coding or patching or whatever, trying to fix whatever I broke last year when I upgraded to a new rev. level of WordPress. I think my New year resolution for 2010 was to be a better blogger, but I bumbled and I fumbled… [...]

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