Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 29, 2005
Slushpile

From Dragon Dog Press’ Glossary of Writing Terms

Slushpile – What the editors call the overwhelming amount of unagented and unsolicited material the…
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According to folks at the magazine’s advertising department, The Economist has a circulation of 4,093 in Denmark. The European average is 4.5 readers …
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 25, 2005
Strunk and White v. Newspapers

Strunk and White elementary rule no. 17:

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sen…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 23, 2005
SAS Surcharge?

SAS Surprice, is that as in surcharge, the SAS surcharge? Or is this just someone ignoring the first rule of jokes: It doesn’t work if you have to exp…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 19, 2005
OhmyNews shows how to do journalism online

SFGate:

With the motto “every citizen is a reporter,” 5-year-old OhmyNews has engaged its audience in ways that U.S. print and television news outle…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 19, 2005
Others agree on the Skype deal
Seems like others are wondering the same things as my friend Skipper and I.

Here is what Bill Robinson has to say in The Register:

During this perio…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 18, 2005
Skype: What's in it for me
While on the subject of Skype, I found it interesting, that when I broke the news of the takeover to a friend last Monday — a friend who is a user of …
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 18, 2005
Skype feature requests

Here are two little things I would love to see in Skype, in case Ebay still have a buck or two left over to fund future development:

  1. When on a conf…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Sep 14, 2005
Mint: Why I like hosted software
I’m playing around with Mint, just because it looks so cool, but I’ve been having some trouble.

For some reason, I thought it was a hosted app. It lo…

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