Other places I write
If you think I don’t post to this blog often enough, consider reading my other, work-related blog, where I post more often.
What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
Recent Comments
My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Category Archives: Site News
Life Streaming
Since I don’t have enough blogs already, I’m creating a life-stream blog. It’s running on WordPress, naturally, and it’s using a plugin that takes RSS feeds and publishes them as posts automagically. So far, it’s pulling in my Diigo links, this blog, my Web Works blog and my Facebook postings. For a little while today, [...]
A self-serving idea
I have an idea for a new way to blog. I can’t be the first to think this idea up, but I’m too lazy to figure out the keywords to begin searching the Web to find other people who’ve had this idea. Here goes: This would be a single blog post, the text of which is [...]
Blogging less, working more
This is a site update. I just took a new job and it’s eating up most of my computer time every day, so very little time is left for reading or blogging. I’ll get back to the site periodically, so don’t give up on me. (Every time I make a post like this to say that [...]
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Look and feel
A quick note: The look and the feel of the site are once again changing. I love the Manifest theme that I have been using for quite a few months, but I’ve come to the conclusion lately that it’s time to put a sidebar back into play. Hence I’ve switched to the barebones WP Framework [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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