Monthly Archives: November 2008

Thought on the rhetorical and righteous mind

By Michael Becker | Published: November 29, 2008
Alex Reid, after some dis­cus­sion of the smaller-than-previously-thought role the con­scious mind actu­ally plays in human life, tells us that “teach­ing prac­tices work fairly well for the most part, even though they are built on a likely faulty model of the mind.” In part, that’s because writ­ing relies on a lot of the sub­con­scious func­tions built [...]
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Journalist Bailout Program

By Michael Becker | Published: November 23, 2008
TypePad, one of the biggest subscription-based blog­ging providers, has offered free pro-level accounts to jour­nal­ists and ex-journalists. I’m seri­ous. You can check it out for your­self if you want. I already sent them an e-mail ask­ing for an account. I’m pretty noto­ri­ous for using WordPress on all of my sites, but I can’t pass up [...]
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New Trek trailer

By Michael Becker | Published: November 14, 2008
I, like many peo­ple around the world, have now seen the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, which is sched­uled to be released in May 2009. Many peo­ple are up in arms about the trailer — the whole movie, in fact. That’s because it takes us back to the Original Series era with Kirk, Spock, [...]
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Small-town paper lambasted for NOT publishing news of Obama victory

By Michael Becker | Published: November 10, 2008
Correction: The title should have read that the paper was crit­i­cized for NOT pub­lish­ing news of Obama’s win. CNN reports about the 5,000-circulation Daily Herald in Salpulpa, Okla., which did not carry news of Barack Obama’s win in its Wednesday edition. Embedded video from CNN Video Some towns­peo­ple, many of them African American, pick­eted out­side [...]
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Blogging is dead; long live blogging

By Michael Becker | Published: November 9, 2008
The Economist put out a short arti­cle on Nov. 6, com­ment­ing on Jason Calacanis’ retire­ment from blog­ging. Calacanis founded Weblogs Inc., and the Economist com­pares his retire­ment from blog­ging to Michael Jordan leav­ing bas­ket­ball. It is, in other words, a big deal.
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