Hypercrit

Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general.

Category: Miscellany

Breezeway goodbye

Part of a concrete breezeway connecting my building and several others on campus collapsed last week. No one was hurt. No one even reported seeing it happen, so quiet is campus in the summertime. It was a surprise to me, though. I walked back into my building at 2 p.m. after an appointment — everything was fine. […]

First post to posterous

Okay, not much to say on this post. Just experimenting with Posterous for the first time. We’ll see what turns up as time goes on.
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Off-topic: Communities are printing their own currencies

USA Today has a report about communities that have begun to print their own money to encourage people to buy from local businesses.
The stores band together, print some money, and then sell that money at a discount, like $0.95 on the dollar. The customers can then spend the currency at full face value in the stores […]

A quick note

I added some search engine optimization tools to the site today, a couple of plugins for WordPress. Don’t think I’ve sold out. I’m not going to add advertisements or anything. I just want to experiment a bit and see if these plugins bring me any more traffic. I’ll report on what I find.

Choose wisely

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Templar night says to Indy, “Choose wisely. For while the true grail brings life, false ones will take it away from you” (or words to that effect).
Why quote Last Crusade? Well, because I’m at a decision point. I’ve recently installed IntenseDebate to handle the comments on this site, […]