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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
New blog theme, one that will stick for a while
That settles it, I’m slightly in love with Manifest, a theme by Jim Barraud. It’s got just the clean look I wanted. With a little tweaking, it will serve perfectly. On that note, look for some of the features of this blog, specifically any posted videos, to look funny. I embedded them all into this [...]
Design doldrums
I looked at my blog today and realized that I hated the design. I suppose I have only myself to blame. I made it after all. Yet I was possessed of some strange desire to revert back to the default theme, Kubrick. Unfortunately, I changed the hell out of the Kubrick files to create a theme [...]
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Hypercrit 6.5 is coming
If anyone would like to take a look, you can check out the demo of my new site design. It’s content-centric and very much a work in progress. It’s probably about two weeks away from going live at this URL. I welcome your comments, critiques and suggestions, of course. And yes, I know this is the [...]
Revolution and the unthinkable scenario
We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.” The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and [...]
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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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