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Wed, 06/03/2009 - 14:30 — johnso73

So, I've been giving love to the um... backend of this site far more regularly than to the whole 'content generation' aspect. Thems the breaks, I suppose, when time is limited.

But, lucky for the interweb, that doesn't mean I've not been listening to or reading about interesting things. Plus, have a few bits of good news to share about myself, too.

I'll try to clip off the easy things here.

  • On May 1st, Guernica published my short story, Anaphylaxis (yeah, the one that I'm now interested in exploring as a collaborative text). They are a tremendous magazine, with lots of really well written and smart content. Why they published me, I couldn't tell you. I recommend checking them out, not just for my story, but for blogs by people like Robert Reich. (A point of pride to say I shared a venue with him, even an email newsletter.) Esquire also named them as one of the top five places for fiction online.

    So: Yay for me. Also, was awarded a Sappenfield Fellowship from the Universtiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for general admiration of my work. Also, received a Teaching Assistant position for next year.

    • open source political coverage

    Tue, 09/23/2008 - 12:11 — johnso73

    Cruising the Orange shirts today, I came upon:

    1. A diary about the McCain campaign limited media coverage of Sarah Palin's meeting with Hamid Karzai to a photog, a camera crew (no audio) and an editorial (non-reported) member of the print press. Apparently, they wanted to use the images, but didn't want to provide any context to their symbol's actual conversation.

    2. An interactive election night coverage project called The Pilsen Interactive Media Project.

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