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for being named Time’s Person of the Year (along with all the other servicewomen and men)! (So congratulations to you, too, Paul, Pete, J., J’s girl (whose name I always forget, but a good friend reminds me it’s D.), and Philip. Critt, you must be very proud of your son! )

I’m now set up to blog on the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog, the blog for the group of bloggers that meets at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Thursdays at 7 pm. The blog will be about our meetings. Jay McCarthy invites Thursday night bloggers to contact him to get privileges to [...]

Bucky learns the power of reading when Rob gives him a book about Garfield the cat for a holiday present in the December 22 Get Fuzzy. Bucky is a siamese cat who lives with a human, Rob, and Satchel, a dog. Garfield is also a cat who lives with a human, Jon, and a dog, [...]

Here’s a nice, sensitive topic that has nothing to do with politics. What’s important: the format or the information? What’s key about a book? Is it that it is an object created out of paper or a similar substance with a binding and leaves that contains information? Is it the book as an object that’s [...]

Political digression: I’ve got Wesley Clark supporters all excited because of my coverage of one of his New Hampshire events this weekend. They think I’m supporting him. Now, I’ve got a Howard Dean supporter claiming I’m a Dean supporter and giving me something that looks like an electronic kiss or whistle (I’m not good at [...]