Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Brilliant Sports Illustrated Writing

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Sports Illustrated has provided some great writing over the years (perhaps all of which is now available online at through the SI Vault ), b...
Monday, September 22, 2008

John McCain Fumbles Through Today Show Interview

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So great. My favorite part by far of McCain's bumbling Today Show interview (love that Meredith Vieira) was him talking about the nasty ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Time Magazine Sept 22: National Service

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Interesting cover story on National Service in the Sept 22 issue of Time Magazine. It beings with an overview from Managing Editor Richard ...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Who's Better... Obama or McCain? Not "Is Palin Interesting?"

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John McCain (and his associated policies, beliefs and inclinations) is running for President against Barack Obama (and his associated polici...

"Isaac's Storm" by Erik Larson

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Written on this blog back in August was a review of three Erik Larson books including "Isaac's Storm" ... described as "...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Writing from Susan Casey

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In July of this year I posted "The Devil's Teeth" & other writings by Susan Casey about her book on Great White Sharks ar...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

"Arts Fall Preview" from Time Magazine

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The Sept 8 issue of Time Magazine featured brief previews of the following: Television - "True Blood" television series on HBO abo...

McCain Interview & Other Time Magazine Coverage

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Posted here back on September 1st was "Obama Coverage from Time Magazine" , a look at some of the pieces on Barack Obama in Time...
Friday, September 05, 2008

Like to Write Stuff: How Going Forward

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Written on this blog a week or so ago was "Like to Write Stuff: Why & How Thus Far" ... a posting that covered why I began wri...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good" by Sarah Lacy

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In "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good", BusinessWeek technology and Yahoo! Finance writer Sarah Lacy paints an interes...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Obama Coverage from Time Magazine II

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Posted on this blog back on July 29th was "Obama Coverage from Time Magazine" ... a look at two different pieces from the Aug 4 is...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Blog Post Topics So Far

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In an effort to understand fully what I'm trying to do with this blog in terms of content, I've listed below the topics posted on th...

Like To Write Stuff: Why & How Thus Far

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This post will have a decidedly different bent than prior ones, but there's some things that will be a benefit for myself as the author ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Customer Service: The Good, Bad & Ugly

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In a May 2008 special report (which was also it's cover story), BusinessWeek published a series of articles on customer service. It...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

"A Sense of the World" by Jason Roberts

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In "A Sense of the World" , a narrative nonfiction account of blind traveler James Holman , author Jason Roberts provides a fasci...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My Fancy New iPhone

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After pining for one since first hearing word of it's release, I picked up my new 3G iPhone last week (As this photo essay from Time Ma...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Prefabtastic: The Rise of the Prefabricated Home

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"Home Thoughts" from the August 25, 2008 issue of Time Magazine chronicles a prefab home exhibition currently showing at the New ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

More Great Chris Jones Writing From Esquire

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The first "official" (non-list) post to this blog was about Chris Jones who writes (I believe) primarily for Esquire Magazine. Tit...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

"Chill-Inducing Olympic Moments" from Esquire blog

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From the Esquire Magazine website , writer Daniel Murphy in the "Blog of Lists" provides his "Five Most Chill-Inducing Olymp...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

"Politics Lost" & other writings by Joe Klein

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Time Magazine writer Joe Klein may be best known for being the "Anonymous" author of "Primary Colors" (a fictionalized...