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Not much time or news to report this morning. Dan Gillmor has this link to an article on the cost and nuisance of spam. I chose to follow a link to Spamcop, a service I had heard about before but never explored.

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Given the popularity of talk shows, both on radio and TV, where the host appears to be «interviewing» a guest but in reality uses the guest only as an excuse to espouse his own point of view to his audience, there isn't likely to be much interest in logical falacies but I was delighted to discover this site today. It's interesting to me to see how sound logic is done. I'd like very much to be more skilled in reasoning logically and sanely. In fact, I'd like it if all of us tried a more toned-down and reasoned approach to the resolution of differences. I'm afraid I'm a bit cynical though about whether this change in national debates will take place. Volume seems to be more valued than reason nowadays.

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Yesterday, I received a call from a friend inquiring about advice on buying a digital camera. He knew that late last year I purchased a Canon G2 and just wanted some information about how to make a decision about which camera would meet his needs. Fortunately, this bit of advice is easy to give because I am pretty confident that the answer to almost any question someone in the market for such a camera could want to ask can be found at Digital Photography Review. There are, of course, other fine sites out there on this subject, but it is hard to match the accuracy, completeness and depth of information that Phil Askey provides at this site. It is an easy recommendation.

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While exploring some of the functionality in Blogger this morning, I discovered that you can set up a blog in which you permit others to be co-authors. Given how quirky and personal some blogs are, co-authorship seems a strange concept. However, I've been thinking how appropriate a co-authored blog would be for a web site where a group wishes to permit its members to have a meeting place where they can post their musings about the topic to which the web site is devoted.

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Last night, a bit before midnight, I got a call from my friend, Phil Petty, seeking some help with his email program. (It isn't too unusual for him to call late at night since he tends to operate on that end of the day.) While we were talking he mentioned that he had visited my blog and posed a rather interesting and legitimate question. He asked why I wanted to have a blog anyway. Why does anyone create a blog?

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At the moment we're having a system problem here at work, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to prove that one can indeed update his blog from work. Hooray!

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Some days at work are really depleting, as I'm sure you know. Yesterday was one of those days for me.

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On Saturday the 6th I received a phone call from a friend whom I've known for more than 10 years announcing that he was no longer with the company who had employed him for the last 20 years. He began work for this utility digging ditches and working on their gas lines in the street. At the time of his separation he had risen to the position of Vice President of Customer Services and Marketing. We met when he was a supervisor in Customer Services who had just taken over responsibility for training and had called our company to inquire about the services we offered for training his people. After a sales visit to his company at his invitation in 1988, I went on to do a variety of training and consulting services with them through the years, so I know most of the people involved there, from the front-line employees to the CEO.

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My friend, Patrick Ahern, suggests I need to supply a link to email so that others can react to what they find here. That seems like a good idea to me, however I haven't yet found a place where I can place a permanent mailto link in the template used to post this page. So I have added to the information in the general description at the top left corner of the page, since it appears in the same place all the time. That should do as an interim solution, until I figure out another strategy.

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I was delighted to see in Dan Gillmor's blog today his reference to this article that describes how blogs are now being used among business users. Highly recommended, if you have an interest in new ways to use the Internet.

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