Some followup notes from my delightful conversation this morning on KNPR’s State of Nevada, with host Dave Berns and his panel of so-called “witty academics.” (The audio with David Damore, Ken Fernandez and me from University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Eric Herzik of University of Nevada, Reno, is here.) During the show, I mentioned…
That’s one of my basic rules of journalism, and never has it been so delightfully true as today, when we can not only tell you what someone said, but let you hear how they said it — in their own voice. One of my students got a very rude awakening last semester thanks to an…
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time. — Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author (thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)…
We managed to leave Buc-ees without this gem — a beaver neck rest complete with smiling Buc-ee face, paws and a flat tail. The store on I-10 has added a lot of beaverphernalia, including boxers, but no briefs. Mobile post sent by charlotteanne using Utterz. Replies.
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content? People will buy it. Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff. The numbers are…