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Help me write about California, cement and global warming
I have an ongoing fascination with issues that are, to most people, boring as hell. I’m fascinated with school reform, demographics, infrastructure, and in all cases, data.
The problem with such stories, from a freelance perspective, is that they’re tough (for me) to make interesting enough to sell, even if they’re really important.
Fortunately, I met up [...]
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Magazines, and other things to love about living in America
Perhaps you’ve seen the cover of the most recent New Yorker, drawn by Barry Blitt. Perhaps you, like Barack Obama’s campaign, were offended by the image of the candidate dressed in Muslim garb, mimicking that of Osama bin Laden, who is pictured in a framed portrait over a fireplace, wherein an American flag is burning. [...]
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Should my clip file be social?
When I built my online clip file last year, I used Wordpress, the same software I use on my blog. It’s easy to use, I could install it quickly and tweak it as needed. It’s good for SEO without much effort. And best of all, it’s free.
But Wordpress really is a blogging platform. It’s meant [...]
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CopyCamp
First, people in the video:
Rex Pechler
David Cohn
Rob Knight
Quick recap of Saturday. CopyCamp was awesome. No other word for it. Anytime a newspaper opens its doors and lets its readers say what could be done better, that’s a good thing, and the Mercury News reporters and editors who came can’t be thanked enough. I don’t know [...]
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China’s top schools go beyond its top cities
I’m finishing up a long project on second-tier Chinese cities for a real estate newsletter, and clearly, I now have second-tier cities on the brain.
CN Reviews posted a list of the Middle Kingdom’s top 30 universities, according to the China Academy of Management Science (h/t China Law Blog), and I couldn’t help count how many [...]
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