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The Good Life in Downtown Chicago
(Photo: My neighborhood, your destination–how do we meet in the middle? The Nichols Bridgeway from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing.) During their windy City visit last week, Seattle’s...
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Bottom(s) Up for Chicago Bloggers: Time for Our Own Summit on Sustainability
Last week, Chicago independent media sought the key to a sustainable future by sitting down to study their collective navel. Two industry conferences a day apart brought together journalists,...
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CTA Surveys Customers…Badly
(Photo: The CTA wants to know what you’re thinking…that is, if you can figure out what they’re asking.) UPDATE 7/6/09: Welcome to readers today from TransitTalent.com! The following is cross-posted on...
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Rosemary’s Maybes
(Photo: Sometimes movie classics don’t stand up to the test of time.) The following is cross-posted on my Huffington Post Chicago byline. (Where on 9/22/09 it made it to the national Entertainment...
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How Metra Lost a New Rider
(Photo: Half of the Oak Park Metra ramp sprint that turned off a new rider on Tuesday night. Credit: Karla Kaulfuss.) The following is cross-posted on my Huffington Post Chicago byline. I give Overly...
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Oh, Irony: Leaving Huffington Post Chicago over Copyright Infringement
An alternate version of this post appears on my Chicagosphere byline. I’ve decided to call it quits as a Huffington Post Chicago blogger. A charter blogger at that–I was among those personally invited...
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Who Should Defend the Copyright of Content Network Bloggers?
This content originally appeared on my former Chicagosphere online-media blog, hosted on the Chicago Tribune‘s ChicagoNow network. I’ve decided to call it quits as a Huffington Post Chicago blogger. A...
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Print Media’s Five Suicidal Assumptions
(Photo: What you think you know can kill you. Credit: Tombstone Generator.) I meant it last August when I said print journalism was killing itself by its own hand. On Friday, I teamed up with...
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How Print News Will Survive on the Internet
(Photo: Who’s scooping whom in online news?) Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press think there’s value in siloing the news — so much so that the AP has labeled bloggers “content thieves” merely for...
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Tasmanian Michael Goes to Bermuda
(Graphic: A weekend in the sun…the hard way.) “…Landshark.” An old 12-step adage says no matter how willingly you’re off the wagon, sometimes recovery comes and finds you. One day you’re sitting there...
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