Dan’s Thoughts

Print media is not dead. Printed material will always be with us, primarily for the reasons of permanence and portability. Newspaper publishers specifically need to understand what business they’re in now that the timeliness factor is owned by the Internet. Better still, they can exploit the power of the computer to deliver content and advertising in a powerful, profitable manner.
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In the late 1990s I attended a convention where the keynote address was titled (in part) Roadkill on the Information Superhighway. Nearly 10 years later I can proudly declare one species as roadkill: the newspaper. But they weren’t killed. Instead, they ran out into traffic and got squished.
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Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC. And, dang it, this ad campaign has been successful!
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I have an unhealthy obsession with computer keyboards.
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This is my 100th post on this blog.
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I had one of the very first computer radio talk shows in the known universe.
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What is the nature of space? No, not outer space. I’m speaking of the spaces between words.
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A hyphen is a minus sign is a dash, but that’s not entirely true. There are different types of dashes available for your writing pleasure. Before the media releases a panicked news flash, know which is which and how to use them in Microsoft Word.
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Almost immediately after succumbing to the seductive personal networking web site Facebook, I joined another, similar social networking site, Twitter.
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I’ve tried to resist for a long, long time. But I’ve failed.
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