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Observations

Seven Things

January 14, 2009 Observations

The seven things meme, as rendered by yours truly (@mikemorrow). Not really all that interesting—this is definitely harder than I thought, but I also didn’t want to spend too much time agonizing over what to say.
Stick around here long enough and you’ll get to know me better, I’m sure.
Not that I was asking for [...]

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The Green Light

January 14, 2009 Being a Dad

In the middle of a cul de sac in the town where we used to live is a little island of grass and a single, nondescript street lamp that holds the stature of myth in our family.
I speak of The Green Light.
The Green Light, so named and mythologized by my daughter at two [...]

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Basking in Fabulosity

January 11, 2009 Being a Writer

Colleen Wainwright (aka the Communicatrix) is rocking the Internet these days. Or maybe she’s always rocked the Internet and I just figured it out. At any rate, she’s on one of her patented “21 Day Salutes,” which you should definitely check out if you have any interest in changing something about yourself in the new [...]

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My Future Author Award

January 7, 2009 Being a Writer

What you’re looking at here is one of the most important artifacts of my life. I have had it with me as long as I’ve lived on my own, and even while it languished in a box in my parents’ basement it was never forgotten.
It’s a classic scenario, probably as common today as it was [...]

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Media predictions for 2009

January 7, 2009 Observations

We don’t really need experts to tell us that the media landscape is changing, do we?
Just the same, I found these two articles interesting, both as a participant in the media industry and as an observer of how the interwebs are reformatting notions of normalcy.

Clay Shirky, author of one of my favorite non-fiction books [...]

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The map rather than the destination (or, “What’s all this, then?”)

January 3, 2009 Observations

I tend to be more interested in the process of making meaning than in meanings themselves, but let’s start with a few definitions, since I think they’ll make it pretty obvious what I’m attempting here. The following are from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, originally looked up on my iPhone () and [...]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2009 Observations

And so we bid farewell to the year in which we actually thought about Alask a and Hawaii.

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