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Passing It Along: Dom Sagolla's 140 Characters, a Short-Form Style Guide

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A great book on conciseness, written w/ Twitter in mind by @Dom Sagolla. Just passed it along to a journalist co-worker. Here's the Amazon link. Check out @thebook. Happy tweeting!

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New Book! Heidegger and a Hippo. Plus, my Plans for this Posterous Blog

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See Heidegger and a Hippo on Amazon. Harvard grads Cathcart and Klein can tell a good  joke, and they know their philosophy. I have their previous book, Plato and a Platypus (I know, the titles!). The book ends with a politically incorrect metajoke, ha!

Exciting news today: Posterous, the lifestreaming/blog platform/ping.fm-on-steroids service I use, has released the ability to fully customize blogs (theming). Previously, only one theme was available for all, and I stuck to Posterous partly because the default theme happened to be clean, simple and beautiful.

I can't wait to explore a redesign this weekend. In the spirit of lifestreaming, I will do all my design and code changes LIVE, so don't be ashamed to visit the remodeling every now and then.

Because of this, I will be posting less often this weekend. Thanks for visiting my blog! Follow me on Twitter.

NEW! I started lifestreaming because I wanted to connect. Social media and e-mail are easy and powerful. Other times, though, it's good to be able to send a direct, private message to a blogger with a single click. Be the first on my shiny new form, Google-powered! I threw some questions on there if you want to help me improve Design Notes + Photos:

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Dan Brown's New Book, "The Lost Symbol," Out Today. How to Spot the DC Places He Mentions

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Did you grab Dan Brown's sequel to The Da Vinci Code today? In the book (Amazon link: The Lost Symbol), DC Freemasonry history takes center stage.

US News co-worker Debra Bell put together some nice slideshows for the occasion:

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