Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Cool stuff clearinghouse.

Wow. I so shouldn’t still be awake. Still, since I am, I thought I’d share a couple neat things that I’ve found lately, just to clear them out of my mental cache. (And to behave a little more like a weblog should, if you believe that kind of thinking.) Jewelboxing One of the most oddly […]

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Revising Opinions.

After having spoken with a couple of my friends about the Adobe Creative Suite, I’m beginning to reconsider the harshness of my critique. Keith Annis points out that Photoshop can now handle raw digital photo files, which could be useful for him and hot redhead photographers, but not so much for me yet. (Yet.) And […]

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Utahpia.

Wow. I never thought I’d want to live in Salt Lake City, but the picture and the article from The New York Times’ piece In Utah, Public Works Project in Digital makes me wonder. Hmmm. Nahhhh.

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Adobe CS: Conceptually Stagnant.

(Note: after writing this, I realized it’s actually more in line with a Critique than a blog post, so I might actually rework it for our Winter issue. We’ll see.) A short time ago, creative gotta-have-it software company Adobe announced a sweeping overhaul to pretty much their entire software collection. Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, GoLive were […]

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Well, that’s heartening.

It’s oddly reassuring when you read about someone you admire admiring someone else you admire, as in this bit from Mr. Gaiman: I had an utter fanboy moment when a faintly familiar-looking person came over at the end and introduced himself as Philip Pullman, and I just started gushing foolishly, and he was kind enough […]

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The future of television.

Oh. Oh, wow. I have seen the way television should work, and the choice of programs is spectacular. PBS has posted the entire NOVA: The Elegant Universe in streaming QuickTime and RealVideo chunks. All three hours, split into something like 24 chapters. Wow. This is so cool. (Hat tip to the illustrious Mr. Brown.)

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Whoa. Big tribe.

I need to redo the titles in the Biographies section, so I just did a quick nose count to see the scope of the project. Imagine my surprise to see that we’ve had a hundred and nine contributors since we’ve gone online. Wow. Thanks, folks.

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On Urban Tribes.

So, after reading the book and talking with Ethan for a while, it’s really made me think about my current situation. There have been waypoints for my friends getting married – a couple got hitched after graduating from high school, a bunch more got married after graduating from college, and now… Well, I’m waiting for […]

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Virtual Book Tour: Urban Tribes.

As a part of the Virtual Book Tour, I’d like to present an excerpt from Urban Tribes, now available in Features. Check it out!

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Announcing the Autumn edition of Inkblots.

I’m pleased to announce that the Autumn Inkblots is coming online as we speak. So far, Voice, Fiction and Poetry, Portfolio, Critiques and Biographies have all been updated. Features will be coming on-line very soon (including today’s involvement in the Virtual Book Tour). A few other things may be added as the day progresses as […]

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