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repeating tasks in iCal

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:38:44 GMT

clipped by: Painey
clipper's remarks: never have and probably never will. why is Apple so shit at updating such simple yet extremely practical things?

Clip Source: selil.com

It turns out that recurring tasks are not part of iCal or Apple Mail. Never have been. I did research. After all, surely someone else has had this problem and has posted a solution or maybe a little application that would work for me.

Brian Ward on creating an online persona - is good!

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:35:29 GMT

clipped by: Painey

Clip Source: indolentdandy.net

My name is Brian Ward and I write and publish Fitzroyalty but if you think that the persona you see here is a straightforward representation of my real personality then you are naive and mistaken. My online persona is a deliberate and artificial construct designed to gain and retain your attention.

publication rate at Spot.us

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:05:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.google.com

One story a week

Tags: citizen journalism

False Balance

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:39:38 GMT

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Clip Source: journalism.nyu.edu

“How much more evidence do you need?” is the kind of exasperation a lot of us have felt with what he calls “false balance,” which is another name for the pattern I’m describing.

Tags: journalism styles

He said, she said journalism

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:12:52 GMT

clipped by: Painey

Clip Source: journalism.nyu.edu

There I am, sitting at the breakfast table, with my coffee and a copy of the New York Times, in the classic newspaper reading position from before the Web. And I come to this article, headlined “Ex-Chairman of A.I.G. Says Bailout Has Failed.” I immediately recognize in it the signs of a he said, she said account.

Tags: journalism, journalism styles, pressthink

cheeky buggers

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:02:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i wonder how they found me ...

Clip Source: www.theweek.com

In recent months, a long list of corporate giants that includes Comcast, JetBlue, and Whole Foods has used Twitter to find out what customers are thinking. By reading tweets about their products, the companies can respond quickly to consumer complaints and fine-tune their marketing.

Tags: twitter, blogging, blogosphere, whole foods

Twitter's business model?

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: how do they generate income, then? legitimately curious

Clip Source: www.theweek.com

Twitter takes no advertising, and employs only about 30 people.

Tags: twitter, blogosphere, business, blogging

function of Technorati

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:26:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I hadn't really understood the function of Technorati - have never used it, but heard it mentioned often. This is exactly what blogs should be doing ...

Clip Source: www.jonathancrossfield.com

Technorati, for those of you unfamiliar, is a free online service that ranks blogs based on the number of other blogs linking back to them. Therefore it rewards blogs for their influence on the wider blog community in sparking conversation.

religious fallacy

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:54:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WHO'S ERECTING STRAW MEN? you mention in the beginning that you haven’t read the arguments against atheism, then you propose to frame your own definition of God, which you then vehemently defend. this is a text book strawman fallacy ... Get off the interent until you've got something rational to say.

Clip Source: www.onlineopinion.com.au

It is time that atheists come clean and really enter the debate about God instead of triumphantly knocking over straw men and saying “See, it is all a myth!”

religions rationalims

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:52:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WHAT IS IRRATIONAL!!!???? believing that a mythical figure redefined humanity 2000 years ago and that we should still live according to these principles, regardless of any other evidence to the contrary that there might be better ways to live ....

Clip Source: www.onlineopinion.com.au

But what is irrational about coming to the conclusion that this man Jesus in his life and death redefined what humanity is, so that he displaced all of our concepts of the good and the true and subsequently all the things we live by, our gods, and set us free?

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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:48:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this is argument based on character judgement (implied character, rather than ad hominem, which is far worse

and based on analysis of the Bible, instead of the Bible AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Clip Source: www.onlineopinion.com.au

So atheism is not as simple as it first appears, it is a rather darker animal than we could image. To be a real atheist you would have to decide after reading the gospels, say, that the life of Jesus was not about free grace and that it did not display the love that is the basis of all human life. To be a real atheist would be to find that this man Jesus is the enemy of life; to have a character that is pure darkness. To be a real atheist you would have to argue that the disciples of Jesus were bent on human destruction, were entirely self serving, and essentially mean. By any standard this is a tall order! This is why I assert that there are no real atheists. Perhaps there are instances in which human evil is complete in one person, but I doubt it. Certainly the self professed atheists of our time are tame pretenders compared with the real character of atheism.

Tags: religion, bullshit

uck

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:46:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what the fuck does this even mean? even if Jesus did once exist, he doesn't now and he's not gonna save us! it's such a passive ideology ...

Clip Source: www.onlineopinion.com.au

Saying that we believe in God is saying that when we look to Jesus we see the essence of humanity whose fulfilment in us will change the social world. This is the one who will bring peace to the world.

Tags: religion, bullshit

existence of Jesus' 'spirit' remains today ...

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:38:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: how can i trust the arguments of this person (and the evidence provided to support them) when they provide belief statements like this?

Clip Source: www.onlineopinion.com.au

it was his grace - in obedience to the love of the Father - that is with us in the past the present and the future in his Spirit

US leading lit publishers old

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:38:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: if this is the case, this could be a problem. how are young people finding the challenge of gaining some of the small market share of these older publishers?

Clip Source: clmp.org

The leading nonprofit literary presses were established in the 1970s and early 1980s by editors with a vision to publish literary works not being published by commercial houses. The majority (90 percent) of these presses are still run by their founders.

Tags: gatekeepers?

who are lit mags for?

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:33:33 GMT

clipped by: Painey
clipper's remarks: interesting perspective - ronnie and i were talking about the need for lit mags to reach a wider audience, to be as much for readers as they are for writers. with CLMP's attitude to literature and business though, I guess they do actually back up this claim with audience development.

Clip Source: clmp.org

Literary magazines have always been first and foremost about writers.

Tags: literary magazines, literature, writers, readers, clmp, business