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Today’s Sunday NY Times includes many blogworthy nuggets, including this feature about the new proliferation of explicit sex manuals in bookstores of late. “Now the old textbookish tomes like “Joy of Sex,” which invited readers to expand their horizons beyond the face-to face missionary position have been replaced by shiny […]

Cooking in New Jersey on a thundering Saturday afternoon while my sister Jen ran out to have her nails done. This is always a challenge, where do you find the right containers, the right spices, the knives, and the lemon you need? Jen loves to load me up with cooking […]

Journies by ferryboat in New England demonstrate the difference between private and the semi-public administration, and the difference in the user experience. Family-owned Hyline Cruises runs year-round high speed ferries to Nantucket from Hyannis and makes a profit. The Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship authority also runs ferries, but they […]

Last night finally, after so many weeks, brought the final episode of Lost. Whoa, now I am truly lost. There’s nothing like a cliffhanger to make people come back in the fall to pick up where they left off in May. But this one sewed up no loose ends, and […]

May has turned nasty here on the New England coast. A storm brewed up last night and the wind howled outside my hotel window. Now, three Russian moving men sit on the lobby couch, killing time at the hotel. That’s because the fast ferry and even the slow ferry are […]

This was found on Cyberjournalist.com a good site to tap into for web info. Lately a number of sites and developers have been tapping into Google Maps to create great new tools. Any of these ideas would be fantastic on news sites. Here are eight of the coolest ones: • […]

Surfing around the web and found a lot of info on blogging. I found an odd new product. It’s called “AutoBlogger.” The tagline is, “you have a life to live.” This product mimics your style and will post your blogs for you. Really. Seems that already people are sick of […]

The LA Times editorialized recently about Bill O’Reilly’s comments that certain people would be hunted down by terrorists. “It is legitimately maddening to Americans that people whom we have liberated from tyranny or the nearby threat of it, at a vast cost in American lives and dollars, should be so […]

Tina Brown as usual has an interesting take on the Newsweek Koran story: “At Newsweek there was no swaggering megalomaniac editor who deserved a comeuppance, no celebrity anchor with vanities to unmask. Mark Whitaker, Newsweek’s editor, errs on the earnest side. The decent, hardworking editors under him who put out […]

Today’s Village Voice includes this wonderful opener by Julian Dibbell, about RosieO’Donnell. “Can there be anything more cringe-inducing than a CBS Hallmark Special starring Rosie O’Donnell as a developmentally challenged 43-year-old whose faith in people touches the lives of those around her? Trust me. There can: Try wading through the […]

We hope that one day we see a piliated woodpecker like this in Holyoke. 

Last night’s gala celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press drew about 500 attendees, including some of the biggest names in journalism, and raised some $700,000 for the committee amid grave concerns about the state of press freedom in the United States. Editor and […]

Back on the rock in the cozy Dolphin Guest House on Nantucket. After a struggle, finally got the broadband wireless to work, so for the next few minutes I am connected. Squirrelly, though, so who knows how long. Last night I posted my story called “American Nudist” on GoNOMAD.com, and […]

In the familiar Dolphin Guest House, their last season here on Nantucket. Next fall, a rich guy will make this big hotel his own private home. Probably tear down some of it, and make an opulent home for just a few. Watching TV here, May sweeps is always the best […]

I met Jeff Sherman just a month ago when I visited the city. Now look who he’s got coming to visit his office! 10:05 a.m.Air Force One landed as rain fell at the 440th air base. After a quick greet with VIPs, including Sheriff David Clarke and County Executive Scott […]

Bruce Springsteen, 2005 

Bruce Springsteen was featured on CBS’ wonderful Sunday Morning show today. The dapper guitarist said he’s definitely going to be playing when he’s 75, as he and the correspondent stood in front of the stage. There were 25 guitars up there, waiting to be played by the boss. “Why do […]