Archive for the 'Reading' Category

Sep 17 2008

Protected: Reading is fun-damental with M and Dad

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Jan 21 2008

Forget the morning paper, we read RSS feeds!

Published by under internet,IT,Reading

Imagine that you subscribe to The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Boston Globe and one of those papers is delivered to your front door every morning. I congratulate you because you are seemingly and intelligent and informed person who stays up on the current, well-reported and important news. Or, are you? Now [...]

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Sep 20 2007

TimesSelect is no more

Published by under internet,Reading

Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor and media expert, posted on his blog BuzzMachine earlier this week that the New York Times has scrapped their TimeSelect feature, which charged users for online content in certain areas of its website. “No one with sufficient experience ever thought that TimesSelect made good business sense. Oh, they talked a [...]

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Aug 22 2007

A great analysis of the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Published by under Books,Reading

Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading the final Harry Potter book! Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading the final Harry Potter book! Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading [...]

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Aug 02 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The adventure is over

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It was the summer of 1998 when I first heard of Harry Potter. I was 27. I was sitting in my car in the parking area for the Cygnet Rowing club in Newton waiting for my rowing partner one sunny Saturday morning, when an NPR radio journalist was giving his take on the Potter universe [...]

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Apr 24 2007

We’ve descended into a new level of Buffy the Vampire Slayer geekiness

Published by under Reading,Television

Thank god for comic books! And for Joss Whedon’s continuation of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer storyline with Dark Horse Comics. In march, the story of Buffy, her watcher Giles, and the rest of the Scooby gang lives on to season eight, but in comic book format. (The television series ended with season 7.) Dark [...]

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