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Henri Matisse Finally got the kids down to Raleigh to see the Matisse/Picasso show. It's still great when you're sober. The museum was jammed, the show is selling out every day, next week when school's back in session it may be less crazed. Still, you might want to get tix in advance. The whole thing closes in two weeks, and during the final weekend the NCMA will by open for 32 hours straight , from 9 AM on Saturday, January 15, until 5 PM Sunday. 6:03:19 PM  comment []
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An interview with Karl Martino, creator of the Philly Future local blog aggregator. From our conversation: "Anyone can collect blogs and read them thru an aggregator. I moved to highlight certain bloggers I thought were exceptional, and to point out stories they've posted that I thought should be shared." "I've settled on some basic tenets: keep the layout simple, and place the site's focus right were you will find it loading the page the very first time." "I want you to come to Philly Future, see an item of interest, and then And lots more on the techie side, his local community, and temporarily losing the URL to a porn site...read the whole thing. 5:33:08 PM comment []
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I've started pruning my local blogroll, but I still don't know what I'm doing. Culling bloggers who don't update is easy. Waiting til new bloggers show that they'll be around for a while makes sense. But I'm not inclined to maintain a comprehensive list, which is why the most important names on my blogroll are the three local aggregators, plus TheShu, who does try to be all-inclusive...So what is my blogroll? A list of my faves? Or those local blogs I deem to be most important in some way? Right now, it's a relic of GSO blogs, circa this fall... 11:36:17 AM comment []
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The death of niche information (continued). Last fall, the Bowles campaign quit talking to me because I was reporting for an "insider publication." I tried to explain that the web made that concept obsolete...but they weren't hearing it. Here's a test of my theory: Google the name "Susan Lagana," the campaign's communications director, and note the number one entry... (I should point out that Guy Cecil was not on board as campaign manager during much of the campaign's online foot-dragging, which may not be clear from the article.) 10:53:59 AM comment []
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TriadBlogs is a fresh new aggregator for the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem area. It's off to a good start, with content broken down by categories, and they've solved whatever technical problem exists around linking to posts without titles. One suggestion: run just the top paragraph or two of aggregated posts, not entire essays... (found via the Bloghunter, GiT) 10:28:20 AM comment []
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Tone Shock is hip-hop producer, business student, and new blogger (via GiT). 10:21:14 AM comment []
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Backwards City has launched a sub-blog for its reviews. But you knew that, because you are reading Backwards City with metronomic regularity...aren't you? 9:48:22 AM comment []
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Alex Wayne admits he finds the tsunami entertaining. Shrugging off human loss of such magnitude makes him sound like he's trying too hard...but he's onto something -- the whole weather-porn angle of natural disaster coverage, the money shot of the waves coming over the wall shown over and over again, and the people being sucked back out to sea in an endless loop for the folks safe at home... Related phenomenon: "the pornography of grief." Permalinks not working at Alex's new blog -- he may be too busy drunkenly scarfing other people's cheesecake and having impure thoughts about injured supermodels to worry about such technicalities, but they do make blogging easier... 9:09:37 AM comment []
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David Wharton on redeveloping the northeast corner of downtown Greensboro. I like his idea for targeted tax breaks. 8:52:35 AM comment []
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