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Could blogs help boys catch up in school?

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Could class blogs help motivate boys to catch up in school?

I just listened to the podcast of the July 27 edition of Colorado Matters, a show from Colorado Public Radio. The segment Some Districts Move Toward Gender Education. CPR’s Dan Meyers interviewed Kelley King, Director of Education at the Colorado [...]

Pithy video advice on citizen journalism

At BlogHer this past weekend, I stayed out way too late on Friday night with my friends and citizen journalism colleagues Lisa Williams, Tish Grier, and Beth Kanter.
Back in the hotel room after a fair amount of wine and Italian food, Beth shot this incriminating video and asked us for advice on citizen journalism. The [...]

My archive links are working again

The gradual rehab of Contentious continues. Now existing links to my archives, which were created on an older blogging system, are working again. That’s a relief! Thanks to Justin Crawford and Tom Vilot for all their help with this project.

Rehabbing Contentious, gradually

Don’t worry! I’m still here, working hard.

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted to Contentious, for good reasons.
First of all, I’ve been totally slammed with work. I mean, back to 60+ hours a week most weeks. This brought out one of my worst personal flaws: I always tend to put own [...]