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My Notebook features over 500 posts across over twenty years, covering everything from movies to ethics to personal stories to random links. Browse recent Notebook entries below, or use the category buttons or search to go deeper. The “Clip File” category contains my favorite writing.

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  • Final thoughts on BlogNashville

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    Now that BlogNashville is in the rear-view mirror, I have two final thoughts. My first comment is a big yee haw! If you click the fuzzy picture up top here, you’ll see a full-size screenshot of Blogdex, a service that essentially takes a snapshot of the most popular links around the blogosphere on a given…


  • Just checking

    Everybody knows that I re-launched this site without finishing it, right? That it’s got tons and tons of bugs and kinks that need to be worked out? Okay, just checking.


  • Paperback out

    The paperback edition of Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man– the book I co-wrote with David T. Hardy– is now available online and at your local bookseller! Learn more about the book Order from Amazon Find a local bookstore


  • Holy cow

    Hugh McLeod’s “why corporate blogging works” is a revealtory post. it’s practically a treatise.


  • A better Flickr badge and a late scoop

    Last week, I was messing around with this site and stumbled onto what might’ve been a scoop had I actually posted it in time. Here’s what I wrote then but never published: Tired of that pretty limited “put Flickr photos on your site” widget that Flickr calls a badge? Well by accident last week, I…


  • Dang, that’s a nice site!

    Via Glenn, we learn that Tennessee Governor Phil Bresden is now blogging at his state’s official website, Tennessee.gov/governor. (Too bad they didn’t call it tennesse.gov/ernor, right?). A couple of thoughts on this: * Did Bill Hobbs get Gov. Bresden blogging? Or was it his state’s larger (and surprisingly larger) blogging community that got him started?…


  • Winer UNleads a BlogNashville session

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    During the final track of BlogNashville today- in a session titled “A Respectful Disagreement” – Dave Winer combined with cartoonist John Cox and a few others to create what became, at times, quite a contentious, un-respectful discussion. Near the middle of the frequently awkward hour and forty-five minutes- after a couple of flare ups- Dave…


  • Off to BlogNashville

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    I’m headed down to BlogNashville– if you’re going, be sure to stop over and say hello.


  • Flickr

    This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.


  • Under construction

    Yep, there’s still a ton of things I have left to do to this site. * Add RSS subscribe buttons to the sidebar * Add my links to the sidebar * Test on other platforms * Re-format photos page * Add links to links page * Add Fiql RSS to feeds list in sidebar?