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I did a poll about a month ago asking for suggestions on what I read. I got a lot of awesome comments and was inspired to finish Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley (review in progress). They were all awesome, so [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is a revival of one of my favorite previous activities, the book review link exchange. I’m excited because doing the link exchange was, I think, when I first found Weekly Geeks. Basically, the challenge to let your readers know that you have a link exchange policy, show them your archives, [...]
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I finally found a way to upload my first multimedia project online! To view the project, click on the picture at right and a new window will pop up with the audio slideshow. If you’re interested, check out these previous posts about my experience doing multimedia reporting, and my experience putting the project together.
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Susan Orlean has always been one of those writers that I knew I wanted to read. I’d scour used bookstores for The Orchid Thief and scan The New Yorker to see if she had a profile, but I never seemed to find anything. And then, even after I found a copy of The Orchid Thief, [...]
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Darren Rose, the author of Problogger, is hosting another “31 Days to a Better Blog” project starting on April 1. I read Problogger regularly and have taken quite a few articles from that site as resources for the Blog Improvement Project, so I’m very excited about this. Even if you don’t consider yourself a professional [...]
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I’ve been pretty negligent about Weekly Geeks as of late; however, I’m back for this weeks edition, written by Ali from Wordcupia, which is all about historical fiction. Ali had a lot of questions, but here are the ones I liked best:
Do you have a favorite book that really pulled you back in time, or [...]
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I packed a ton of books for my vacation last week, expecting that I’d read a lot on the plane rides. But both flights left around 6:00 in the morning, so I ended up sleeping more than reading on the planes. Sister and I did take a lot of public transportation in San Francisco, so [...]
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Hi everyone! I had great time in San Francisco, despite the weather being a little cooler than I might have liked it to be. Instead of writing a whole long post about my trip, I’m just going to let these pictures do most of the talking (sorry if the formatting is a little wonky):
Our first [...]
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