February 2006
CityDesk: CMS for windows from the renowned Fog Creek people
by mikepower & 2 others
“...CityDesk [is] a fantastic low-cost desktop content management tool that revolutionizes the ease with which any journalist, researcher or writer can update and post to his web site without the need to go through a webmaster.”
January 2006
Gore Vidal: President Jonah
by mikepower
We are assured daily by advertisers and/or politicians that we are the richest, most envied people on Earth and, apparently, that is why so many awful, ill-groomed people want to blow us up. Well, we still have Kraft cheese and... the death penalty.
March 2005
Bloodletters - Hack Yourself You can be happy. You can live the life you want to live. You can become the person you want to be. This is what I've figured out so far.
by mikepower & 2 others
Stop assigning blame. This is the first step. Stop assigning blame and leave the past behind you.
February 2005
The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
by mikepower
From ethics committees to ‘learning outcomes’, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without. By Frank Ferudi
January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 21 others
The books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
Philip Pullman: Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
by mikepower
If we want children to write well, giving them formal instruction in grammar turns out not to be any use; getting them actually writing seems to help a great deal more. There was no evidence at all that the teaching of grammar had any beneficial effect on
John Cartan - 20 Strange and Wonderful Books
by mikepower
Here, then, are twenty strange and wonderful books from my library. Even if you have no curiosity about my inner life, you will profit by coming to know any one of these books.
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism
by mikepower & 3 others
As many of you know I'm going to work hard on a project to inspire, enable and create what many have been calling a new kind of journalism.
December 2004
November 2004
43 Folders: Hack your way out of writers block
by mikepower & 1 other
Stuck for words? Lots of ways to get unstuck and start the blogging juices running again
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