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Writing the Backwash with R. H. Sheldon

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A Less-Than-Serviceable Plan

I didn’t think I’d be publishing a blog post anytime soon because my website had been recently hacked. Although the site itself seemed untouched, Google listed its title as Zithromax For Sale, rather than Slipstream: Writing the Backwash with R. H. Sheldon. Sure, the links back to my site still worked, but the disturbing title [...]

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Facebook Fasting: Enough for Sainthood?

The other day I read an article in The Huffington Post in which the author, senior editor Craig Kanalley, wrote about his daring and self-congratulatory sabbatical from Facebook and Twitter. So impressive was his two-week stint—at least to those at HP, including Kanalley, no doubt—that his triumph was deemed newsworthy enough to make the prestigious home [...]

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About Face: A Poke at Social Networking

Last week I watched the film The Social Network, which chronicles the events leading up to and following the inception of Facebook, the world’s number one social networking Web site. Prior to seeing the movie, I knew nothing about Mark Zuckerberg or the other Facebook founders. In fact, until recently, my knowledge of Facebook was [...]

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