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Still flying with baggage
Seems fashionable to dish “old” newspapers as an ongoing enterprise. One of the latest came just last week when New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell, on a panel as part of the celebration of Slate’s 10th anniversary bash, said newspapers were a lot like airlines: “The airline itself never makes any money, but everyone else connected…
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Going to pot in North Carolina
Marsha Mercer, Media General’s Washington Bureau chief, has a nice piece on a “mug quest” to one of the places I grew up in — and like to return to often. Apparently, it drew her back, too, for it wasn’t her first trip. She says she detoured to Seagrove, NC, while on a work assignment.…
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LISTSERV turns 20
Eric Thomas, who created the L-Soft listserver software that’s called LISTSERV, noted on the LISTSERV list owners’ forum that today is the software’s 20th anniversary and his 40th birthday. A history of the ubiquitous software is here. If you subscribe to many mailing lists, you’re probalby a LISTSERV user. The stuff runs like a tank!…