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Blogathon 2009: Dinnertime
The arrival of dinner and the 12-hour mark of Blogathon forces the point home that I’m somewhat behind on my posting. I’m working on it! In the meantime, more coffee and more pizza means more blogging energy. Or I’ll totally crash in an hour. But before then, posts! I’m also pleased to report that we’re now up […]
Blogathon 2009: Things you didn’t know about grapefruit.
While looking up examples I felt were “typical” of Digg (and thus, not random in any way, which probably dilutes my point), I found this highly questionable post: Grapefruit diet almost cost woman her leg. It suggests a correlation between grapefruit consumption and DVT, deep vein thrombosis, the clotting disorder known to be triggered by […]
Blogathon 2009: First look at the new CBC News
Tod Maffin just posted something that’s helpfully topical, given a conversation I was having this morning after my “why the CBC sucks at infographics” post. As part of their depressing cost-cutting measures, the CBC newsrooms are consolidating news operations. As Tod describes: Rather than having separate newsrooms, assignment desks, and reporters for TV, radio, and […]
Blogathon 2009 — Manny gets a wrong number
So yeah, this happened to me the other day: Google is handy, no? In retrospect, responding with his name and address a minute later is pretty much the worst possible response next to, “we have your wife.” I was really wondering, though — how do you even text someone at random? Don’t you generally select the person […]