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    • The way to Carnegie Hall

    By Frank Paynter | Published: January 7, 2024

    Tamar Jacobson blogs at Mining Nuggets. Today marks the beginning of her sixth year practicing the blogger’s art. Congratulations for staying the course Tamar! I understand your feelings when you say, This morning, as I look back at the very beginning of blogging, I feel as if it has been more than just five years. [...]

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    The Making of an Elder Culture

    By Frank Paynter | Published: December 27, 2024

    Forty years ago, pop sociologist Theodore Roszak tried to explain a dominant meme of the sixties with his book The Making of a Counter Culture. The tag “counter culture” was widely adopted in the media and served as a convenient label to bound a set of activities that went against the grain of the values [...]

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    Friday Follow

    By Frank Paynter | Published: November 20, 2024

    Over on twitter there is a practice known as Follow Friday.” Twitterers craft tweets and often tag them with the characters #ff (for Follow Friday). If you show up on a Follow Friday list you know that at least one twitterer likes your tweets, or respects you, or appreciates the links you share, or is [...]

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    National Poetry Slam #NPS2009

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 4, 2024

    The twentieth National Poetry Slam, the Super Bowl of the Spoken Word, gets under way tonight at seven pm in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a sort of bus man’s holiday, the Orlando Sentinel’s Tod Caviness will blog the event live from West Palm. Of local interest: el guante will be slamming for the St. [...]

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    tbex

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 24, 2024

    Travel writers are gathering in Chicago this weekend under the aegis of #tbex (yeah, that’s a twitter hashtag), the Travel Bloggers Exchange. Not coincidentally, the BlogHer 09 conference is in Chicago this weekend too. Both events are sold out. #tbex founder Kim Mance and the tbex team will gather the travel bloggers again this fall [...]

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    Writer’s crap

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 21, 2024

    Writer’s crap: Derived from writer’s cramp, writer’s crap refers to a stage when one is only capable of writing utter crap. Writer’s crap is distinguished from writer’s block by the existence of a work product. Writer’s block is a paralytic condition originating deep in the amygdala and extending outward to the somatic nervous system, a [...]

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    140 characters is too few

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 1, 2024

    “Twitter” rhymes with “fritter” and that’s what I’ve done–frittered too much time away following other people’s interests. The stream of information is compelling, but my continuous-partial-attention time slicer doesn’t slice thin enough for me to follow your tweets while I do my stuff. Yet online connection and conversation enriches me. It’s my intention to follow [...]

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    Jennifer Balderama

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2024

    [Wordnik is] “A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, its goal is to gather as much information about a word as possible — not its mere definition, but also in-sentence examples, semantic ‘neighborhoods’ of related words, images, statistics about usage, and more. And it’s all compiled via user [...]

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