Dailies

Via the inimitable Warren Ellis, of course.

Radio Workshop, hands down my favorite class of the year, wrapped up last night. I have learned many things this year, but persistent and nagging anxieties that I haven’t learned enough or the right things are still occasionally fluttering around. My last several pieces were, to my mind, boring and unnecessary. [...]

McCain Speech to Shed Light On Judicial Philosophy - WSJ.com
This is impressive, and a phenomenon I watched in the 2000 Republican primaries — people see a very likable John McCain and ascribe their own positions to him… which he tacitly encourages, I’m sure, by not talking about certain hot-button issues very much. Good on [...]

Mobile News Network.
Go to it with a mobile phone.
It’s got some of the best optimized-for-the-iPhone web design I’ve seen. That said, if I were an AP client newspaper with any kind of web presence, I would be pissed. The bigger the online presence AP has, the less room there is for [...]

An Upstart Up Against a Jewel - New York Times
Good article laying out the basics of the Takeway, where I’ll be officially starting in just over a week.
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Well, O.K., his opening was a little lame; the reference to Grand Theft Auto had to do with the fact that the latest version of the game was [...]