Consolation Champs

Just playing around with Ranchero Software’s MarsEdit. I think this might be useful for working on longer (ie. more personal) weblog entries. I suppose I could just write in a text editor and then paste it in later, but we’ll try this for a while and see why people like it so much.

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Just for fun, here’s a link to an article I wrote about blogs and blogging for web zine About This Particular Macintosh back in January 2001. I wonder how many of the links even work anymore.

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I love the CBC. I subscribe to their excellent documentary mailing list and if you live in Canada, you owe it to yourself to watch or tape Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’s excellent film The Take, which is airing on Thursday March 24 at 8:00pm.
I saw the film last year at Hot Docs, and called […]

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Just announced: my new book, co-authored (apparently) with Dan “Suite” Budiac(tion):

Thanks, Neil!

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Michael has encouraged us to tell the “backstory” of how we named our weblogs, so here is the tale of how Consolation Champs came to be:
My web presence began in 1997 after I took a course in multimedia development. The course was 16 weeks long. 15 weeks on Macromedia Director and a week tacked on […]

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I got home yesterday afternoon around 3:30, sleep-deprived and smiling. I wish there were time to post a full post-SXSW report but after catching up on my sleep, becoming reacquainted with my wife, and returning to a flurry of work, it may have to wait. I am writing a piece for Digital Web about the […]

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Well, I’m off again to South by Southwest Interactive. This is my fifth year going, which seems hard to believe. It’s also the fifth year that I’ve put together a music compilation. This year’s is called “Let The Distance Keep Us Together” and is named for the leadoff track, by Spoon’s Britt Daniel. If you […]

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Though I haven’t commented yet, I was very happy with our Prime Minister’s recent decision that Canada not participate in the American Ballistic Missile Defense (Defence) plan. And don’t think we haven’t been getting a lot of flak about that up here. W won’t return Paul Martin’s calls, our beef can’t cross the border, Condi […]

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