A friend just alerted me to Kirix Strata, a Web browser that will let you work with raw data as you see it on your favorite Web pages. You can easily manipulate html tables or create mash-ups with RSS feeds. This is an intriguing idea. I wonder if, like Swivel (another new-fangled Internet contraption I […]
Although you probably wouldn’t know it from the miniscule bit of coverage it has received thus far, the Women’s World Cup (of soccer) is currently underway in China. Since I don’t have cable at home, and the games have been broadcast in the middle of the night, I’m sad to say I haven’t seen any […]
I once heard an editor compare working in New Jersey to hunting in a game preserve. Much like their cousins in South Florida, Jersey politicians never cease to provide a wealth of good stories.
A week or so ago, we got one of those stories when federal investigators launched the latest in their regular series of […]
In this era of spam and astroturf, not all readers of the blog are the same. I had a new user visit and register recently, but apparently I’m not the only site he visited.
I guess I should be flattered, but no readers are sometimes better than a flood of spam.
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For weeks, I’ve been planning this post, my paean to Jack Kerouac and the influence he had (along with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, George Orwell and J.D. Salinger) on my early life as a writer.
But the hustle and bustle of daily journalism has once again thwarted my best intentions.
50 years ago today, […]
