How to Write with Confidence
Lynne Kiesling This is one of the best essays about writing that I’ve seen in a long time: How to Write with Confidence. Whether you write books, journal articles, blog posts or tweets, these suggestions are great.
Miscellany
“Twitter Marks an Advance in Freedom”
Michael Giberson “Twitter marks an advance in freedom,” or at least so says Peder Zane in his column at the Raliegh News & Observer. I wouldn’t know, since I still don’t drink from the fountain of tweets. Only, I happened to notice at the end of an essay by Amartya Sen in the New York …
Daily Reading: Al Daily and The Browser
Lynne Kiesling Looking for some useful and eclectic collections to add to your daily reading? Two that I enjoy are Arts & Letters Daily (AL Daily) and The Browser.
Walk Score: Comparing My New and Old Neighborhoods
Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog they mentioned Walk Score, a website that will calculate walk-ability for an address based on number of nearby stores, parks, and other useful places. They admit that there scoring formula doesn’t get everything, but it did a reasonable job comparing my new address in Lubbock, Texas and my old …
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Reiham Salam on the Angelheaded Hipsters at Sxsw Interactive
Michael Giberson At The Atlantic‘s business blog, Reiham Salam invokes sci-fi author Vernor Vinge as he contemplates the meaning of what he saw at the SXSW Interactive Festival, but his post put me more in mind of these famous opening lines: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, …
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Slate on Winning Your Ncaa Pool
Michael Giberson At Slate, Chris Wilson advances the idea that the best way to win your local NCAA basketball pool is “to look for situations where the national bracket values a team much higher than the objective statistics.” By betting on the undervalued teams you are more likely to come out ahead. In the past …
Who Needs Charitable Giving when You Can Have Big Government?
Michael Giberson At the Arizona Economics blog, Scott Gustafson runs some numbers on the limits on tax deductions for charitable giving contained in the Obama budget outline for 2010. Drawing on numbers from the budget outline (as summarized in this Washington Post article), Gustafson concludes that the administration thinks the change will result in $45 …
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Coffee Shop Builds Business with Twitter
Michael Giberson Unlike Lynne, I don’t Twitter. (No Facebook or Myspace, either. I don’t text from my phone – well, only to reply when my kids text me first; I used to IM, but I don’t anymore.) I do have a LinkedIn profile, but other than blogging here and responding to the occasional email, that …
Nudging Down Food Waste in Cafeterias
Michael Giberson Lynne’s rambling post on Cass Sunstein – so much to think about, so little time! – came to mind when I read this Freakonomics blog post on trayless college cafeterias.
Kids Don’t Know Their History – Energy Czar and Atari
Michael Giberson At Common Tragedies Daniel Hall links to my post on reading recommendations for the Car Czar which mentions the Atari simulation game “Energy Czar,” only he titles his post: “Maybe Carol Browner should dust off an old Atari 2600.” C’mon now, you couldn’t get a serious game like “Energy Czar” for the Atari 2600. …
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