It’s surprisingly easy to find lots to like and recommend on Twitter: #WickedWednesday We should all dedicate ourselves to books & beer like @jchristie does #WickedWednesday Secretly I’m pissed I didn’t think of @FakeAPStylebook first #WickedWednesday Now it’s @MatthewGagnon turn to be recognized for making sure we know what Maine politicians are doing #WickedWednesday @MaineNewsSimply […]
Carl Natale
I went out to eat last night in this dingy hole in the wall. Yes it looked run down from the outside. But inside it was very clean. The waitress was wonderful. She was friendly and steered me away from the food that wasn’t so good. What I did order was excellent. It tasted like […]
In case you missed it yesterday, here are the #WickedWednesday picks for this week: @BPGlobalPR makes it OK to laugh at greedy oil execs & oil-covered gulls @AugustaInsider is one of the bloggers trying to make sense of Maine politics @JustinNXT will make you feel cool just because you follow him & deserves the title […]
Pro Football Talk Daily doesn’t assume Ben Roethlisberger. only will serve four games of his six game suspension. This is still Roethlisberger’s to lose. Mike Florio also wants him to start talking to the media. He appreciates being careful. But Roethlisberger needs to address his fans. There are two things that will win fans back. […]
NPR had a fascinating piece about how our word choices contain clues to our state of mind. It started with a computer analysis of Agatha Christie’s writing. As she grew older, her vocabulary shrunk and grew simpler. Researchers theorized she was suffering from dementia. Although there was never confirmation or proof. It was a theory. […]
So I stepped into a bit of controversy when I wrote some tips meant to encourage people to write. Writing can be intimidating. Generating coherent thoughts and putting them on paper is a bit scary. For some people it’s on par with public speaking. To help take some of the intimidation out of it, I […]
Trade and specialization has made humans into the innovators we are today according to Humans: Why they triumphed, an article by Matt Ridley in the weekend’s Wall Street Journal. When we started trading, we exchanged more than goods. We shared ideas. This helped create a sort of a collective consciousness. Ideas were like genes. Like […]
How to keep reader comments civil
by Carl Natale on May 29, 2010
NPR has a thoughtful story on trying to keep nasty commens out of newspaper web sites. What’s interesting is that it looks at the psychology of commenting and doesn’t try to lay the blame on anonyminity. I agree that anonymous profiles don’t explain all the ire and negativity. First, there needs to be motivation to […]
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