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Thanksgiving Everglades Extravaganza!

I’m taking a trip to Walter Hamilton Place between November 25th and November 30th.
I’ll be heading down to south Florida to get some experience — practical and life experience — with my dad. It’s a great opportunity to see some great habitat, increase my birding life list, and have an extraordinary break.
Photographs, notes, Flip-quality video, [...]


GeoPress test

Just testing GeoPress plugin to see how it works. Testing at my parent’s house.
geopress_addEvent(window,”load”, function() { geopress_makemap(642,”Little Gap”,40.803976,-75.536911,”google”,Mapstraction.HYBRID, {
pan: true,
zoom: ’small’,
overview: false,
scale: true,
map_type: true
},11) });


Beating the bum killed all my comments

Last week I discovered the known jerk/spammer/curmudgeon wenalway hit my blog. After I got home I quickly blocked his IP and removed all the comments he left when I suddenly realized I’d made a huge mistake. I removed all my comments except two. Sorry.
It wasn’t intentional or anything, just an honest mistake I made in [...]


People fear what they don’t understand

There’s something vaguely familiar with the attitude in that comic; something I don’t quite understand — why do people continue to cling to the old ways and the dead trees?
Don’t get me wrong, change is scary. But what happens when people are afraid to try new stuff? We end up with ideas for broadsheet style [...]


Rebuilding a Web journalism class from scratch

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As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I’m a recent graduate of  Northampton Community College’s journalism program.
And I’ve also blogged about what I think of the journalism program at NCC. Quite frankly I think I’m lucky to get out of there with any idea of what online news could become.
So [...]


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