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My Interview With New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta About His New Book, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It

I have been reading Ken Auletta's pieces for many years, usually in the New Yorker, where he is its resident media critic, but also a few of his books.

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With "Earthling," Fringe Returns Kicking, Er, Ash, And This Viewer Celebrates

First my usual disclaimer, caveat and reminder For a complete recap of this episode, try here I seeded two pieces about this episode, a review by the L.A. Times and a preview by Entertainment Weekly here.

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Memoir: Why Elections And Colds Don't Mix (At Least For This Election Worker)

There are some things that don't mix like chocolate and bacon, cough drops and iced tea (learned that the hard way last night) and, colds and elections. I learned that all day Tuesday.

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With "The Gift," FastForward Irks This Viewer; A Few Thoughts

I am not going to try to do a full recap of this episode. Instead, I'll post links to official recaps - there should be an official recap here shortly and I'll post links to other reviews over the next.

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Publishing Articles to Newsvine

From time to time we at Newsvine HQ like to remind the Community of certain rules that, if followed, help ensure that Newsvine remains a fair and equitable place for everyone.

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Good News: Check Out Our Great Newsvine Writers - Newsviner's Picks for Sept. 2009 Is Now Up

For each edition of this ongoing series my goal is to spotlight the best articles I've read in the last month or so. Seeds are great but I, for one, much prefer reading original writing. This is a way to give back to the newsvine community, the one I'm addicted to.

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Writing Down the Bones Topic: Cold and Flu

I have a nasty cold today so i'm going to make cold and flu my topic. Take it in a direction you want. The rules here are pretty basic: I, or someone else, picks the topic. You write about it for 10 minutes and then must stop. The time must be spent writing, not editing.

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Your Next Writing Assigment: Fill In The Rest Of This Conversation

Ever hear a fragment of a conversation as you walk out of a building and then wonder what could they possibly be talking about? This is the fragment I heard: "the opposite dichotomy of our sex lives." I'm tempted to do a writing assigment where people have to imagine what the res …

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Some Thoughts On FlashForward Episode "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" (warning: spoilers)

I posted seeds of three reviews/interviews about this episode, here and here and here .

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Good News: I'm Interviewing AJ Jacobs About His Latest Crazy Adventure, Chronicled In The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment" (part 1 of 2)

A.J. Jacobs is one interesting guy and his books prove it. You know the expression "Write what you know?" Jacobs does that, well, sort of.. actually a better way of putting it is he gives himself a challenge and brings the reader along for the ride.

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Writing Down The Bones Topic: Scares

You can write about scary things you've seen or done or had done to you. This can be fictional or real. Go for it. Use fiction, memoir, poetry, etc to write this week about rain.

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Thoughts On FlashForward Episode "Black Swan" (Warning: Spoilers)

I am not going to try to do a full recap of this episode. Instead, I'll post links to official recaps - there should be an official recap here shortly and I'll post links to other reviews. What I will do is post a few thoughts and ideas and ask you to share some of your own.

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What Would You Like Me To Ask The Authors of The Books On Denialism and Googled?

Apologies to the long headline but I wanted the book titles in there

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Good News: An October Writing Challenge: Write a Story Connecting These Photos

I do this particular challenge every few months. Here is an example of a past one.

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I Am Chocolate, Love Me (A Writing Experiment)

This is my submission for this writing exercise: October Writing Perspective Challenge: Write From the Point of View of Candy Consumed For Halloween

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My Sleep Equation: Rain + Naps = Happy Scott; What's Your Sleep Equation?

I wrote the following for my weekly Writing Down the Bones exercise I lead at Newsvine here. You know that Garbage hit "I'm only happy when it rains"? Well, my version of the song would be much less, well, bouncy: I can only nap when it rains.

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Let's Write a Scary Story Together For Halloween (Or Write Your Own and Link It)

We've done some joint writing exercises together and I think now would be a great time for us to try to write a scary one. I'll help get it started and set the tone.

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Great Fringe Episode "Momentum Deferred" Blows This Viewer Away

First my usual disclaimer, caveat and reminder I have given up on the idea of recapping this series. Instead I'll link to one of the many sites that DOES do a summary/recap (in this case you can find recaps and "Walter's Notes" here

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Thoughts on Dollhouse Episode "Belle Close"

I seeded a review of this episode here and another warning about the show's rating here. Mini-review: This show was good on several fronts. This is better than last week's episode, "Instinct." The dialogue was even better than usual with this episode.

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Writing Down the Bones Topic: Rain

As I write this we have yet another rainy day in Texas thus prompting this, will, prompt. Use fiction, memoir, poetry, etc to write this week about rain.

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Dollhouse: Instinct (Reviewed) (With Spoilers)

I seeded other reviews of this episode here and here. Likes: The Van Halen reference (paraphrase: you can't just take out one part and expect it to be good still) The update of Maddeline/Maddie The drama plot with Echo as a "mother"

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Thoughts On Fringe Episode "Fractured" (warning: spoilers)

I seeded two other pieces analyzing the show - see here and here

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Fiction: It Ain't Heavy, It's Just My Talking Tickling Backpack

My September perspective writing exercise was to write from the point of view of a backpack. I offered extra points if they worked the phrase "he ain't heavy..." (from the song he ain't heavy, he's my brother) into it

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