Category Archives: Web Publishing

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Buzz cuts

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 11, 2010

Google Buzz has been up and running for a couple of days and the amount of interest generated has been phenomenal. Reviews are mixed. I love it. It provides a canvas for anybody to share their digital offerings, whether blog posts, tweets, videos, still photography, or just online chat. It’s an open environment (as contrasted [...]

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Web versioning

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 15, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman refers to Dan Gillmor’s slow news advocacy here, and he extends the concept to journalism criticism, the stories about stories that critics write. His post traces the update history of a recent story about a story that dominated the news cycle for a few days last week. He says, “What I’d love to [...]

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By Frank Paynter | Published: July 22, 2009

This is old news, but it’s probably a meme worth propagating. Singer/song writer Dave Caroll had a grievance. United Airlines baggage handlers broke his $1500 Taylor guitar. Earlier this month the musician, with backing from his band The Sons of Maxwell, released his YouTube lament about the breakage. Three weeks later over three and a [...]

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140 characters is too few

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 1, 2009

“Twitter” rhymes with “fritter” and that’s what I’ve done–frittered too much time away following other people’s interests. The stream of information is compelling, but my continuous-partial-attention time slicer doesn’t slice thin enough for me to follow your tweets while I do my stuff. Yet online connection and conversation enriches me. It’s my intention to follow [...]

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Caveat Lector

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 27, 2009

AKMA observes that Dorothea Salo is hanging it up at Caveat Lector. Regarding her decision she says, What’s next? I don’t know. Some things are right out; I’m not going to go pseudonymous and pop up in another corner, for example, because I just don’t roll that way, never mind that my writing style and [...]

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burningbird

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 27, 2009

Shelley Powers declares her site redesign complete! She asks, What breadcrumb could I use to tease you all into leaving the safety of your syndication feeds, to venture into the raw and wooly lands of actual web pages? With that one sentence I’ve managed to exceed 140 characters, so I’ve already broken the rhythm of [...]

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The long way home

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 20, 2009

I’ve upgraded Listics to WordPress 2.8. I’ve dabbled with Opera Unite. I’ve spent plenty of time on twitter, and… yes, Facebook too. Truth be told, I’ve also played too many games of Spider Solitaire. I’ve bookmarked dozens of links to information on a panoply of web publishing tools–weapons, as some would have it, in the [...]

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A poem by Ray Sweatman

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 10, 2009

Grasshopper reads Chekhov to a Thai Hooker in the Hollow of an Oak in a Cul-de-Sac The flip of a tractor trailer The writhe of a live power line The closing of the main road Has me on this sidestreet Looking for a way home A house, woods, trees Just another cul-de-sac With no way [...]

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