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Anna Quindlen and Me

05.23.2012

She wasn’t the prettiest, the thinnest, the most popular girl but she was really smart and seriously focused and as ambitious as any of the guys. These were the heady days of feminism after all. Anna was a sister.

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Sticky Readers: Flypaper for Your Blog

11.07.2011

Bottom line, then, what Margaret’s book is about is: how to write blog posts that make readers return to your site.

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MLBBloPoMo–It’s not too late to join in

11.02.2011

I promise, on my honor, etc. etc. etc., to publish a post a day on MidLifeBloggers for the entire month of November . Care to join me? We could call it MLBBloPoMo

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The Louise Log: A Filmmaker’s Career is Reborn on the Internet

07.28.2011

She wrote of her move from film to video in an essay called “How the Internet Revamped My Filmmaking Career” for Internet Evolution.

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Win a Fandango certificate: July 1 take your friends to see Larry Crowne

06.22.2011

Is this not the perfect summer movie for the midlife crowd? The producers think so and they’re sponsoring a giveaway on MidLifeBloggers: a $50 Fandango certificate is the first prize.

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Something I will never do again–liveblog the Oscars on CoverItLive

02.28.2011

They are not geeks coding in the closet; they are venture capitalists–you can read about them here–who are looking for new streams of gold to mine from the internet.

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Babbling About Writing, Foucault, the Superbowl, but not the kitchen sink

02.08.2011

Of course, my anti-California slick style is that hard-core, jargon-laden, obscure, obfuscating academic writing.

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For Sale: Valentine S’mores

01.31.2011

Wrap each one in pretty red cellophane and tie with a bow. Take them down the road and up to the High Street–”Please, miss, won’t you buy my Valentine S’mores?”

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Quotidian Iterations and Pruning the Blogroll

01.18.2011

Happy New Year. Oh, did I say that already? I’ve been writing for so many different sites that I can’t remember who I’ve told what….Oh, and I apologize for mixing my metaphors.

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A Blogger’s Christmas in Sacramento

12.16.2010

This year there is at last a Blogging Scene in Sacramento….but I’m not so sure it will be here in 2011.

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