http://mediajunkie.com christian crumlish doing stuff Sun, 13 May 2012 19:17:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/an-essential-guide-to-fostering-online-community/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/an-essential-guide-to-fostering-online-community/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:18:01 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4651 Building Social Web Applicationsby Gavin BellO’Reilly (October, 2009) Gavin Bell draws on his extensive experience to offer a well structured guide to adding community elements to a website or application. His book will help any professional planning a social strategy, designing a set of social features, determining the types of relationships to foster among … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/an-essential-guide-to-fostering-online-community/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/richard-flemings-walking-to-guantanamo-a-closely-observed-true-thing/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/richard-flemings-walking-to-guantanamo-a-closely-observed-true-thing/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:53:34 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4640 Walking to Guantanamoby Richard FlemingCommons (Oct 1, 2008) I loved this book from start to finish. Fleming is a charming and self-deprecating travel companion: the best kind. His pictorial eye strives to transmit clear, unfiltered images and as his readers we make up our own minds about the pros of cons of hitchhiking across … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/richard-flemings-walking-to-guantanamo-a-closely-observed-true-thing/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2009/when-it-comes-to-thinking-bigger-really-is-better/ http://mediajunkie.com/2009/when-it-comes-to-thinking-bigger-really-is-better/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:20:27 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=4074 The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World?) Think Again. I like the arresting graphic design of the book (a publicist sent me an advance copy) but was somewhat wary … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2009/when-it-comes-to-thinking-bigger-really-is-better/feed/ 1 http://mediajunkie.com/2009/invincibility-overrated/ http://mediajunkie.com/2009/invincibility-overrated/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:53:49 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=4067 Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman My review rating: 4 of 5 starsSomething Jonathan Lethem might have cooked up after watching all three seasons of the Venture Brothers while perusing the Watchmen graphic novel. I enjoyed it! View all my reviews. ]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2009/invincibility-overrated/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2007/im-interviewing-nicholas-meriwether/ http://mediajunkie.com/2007/im-interviewing-nicholas-meriwether/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:52:51 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=3940 public Inkwell topic, I’m interviewing my pal Nick Meriwether about his new book, All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead, a scholarly work looking at the Dead phenomenon from a variety of perspectives. You can submit questions to this interview by mailing them to inkwell AT … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2007/im-interviewing-nicholas-meriwether/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2005/this-doesnt-surprise-me/ http://mediajunkie.com/2005/this-doesnt-surprise-me/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:07:44 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=3412 More Alan Furst Blogging: More Alan Furst blogging, this time from Unqualified Offerings: Unqualified Offerings: Henry Farrell got me into a to-do for novelist Alan Furst at GWU this evening. The food was fabulous and the author did not disappoint. Controversial GWU President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg did the introduction, and it … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2005/this-doesnt-surprise-me/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2004/how-to-teach-science/ http://mediajunkie.com/2004/how-to-teach-science/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:20:50 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=3175 The Poor Man: He Sat Right Down And Wrote Himself A Letter: [I]t is a waste of time to teach utterly uninterested schoolkids how to calculate reaction rates and trajectories of cannonballs and so on, things which are going to be about as useful to most of them in the grown-up world as … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2004/how-to-teach-science/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2004/noticing-gujari-girl/ http://mediajunkie.com/2004/noticing-gujari-girl/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:37:55 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=2880 gujari girl: I never thought the first person in Walnut Creek to whom I’d defend Oakland would be an Indian guy from New York! I’m now two L(G)L behind on photos. If I post mine we’ll have triangulation on a few of … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2004/noticing-gujari-girl/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2003/delillos-the-names/ http://mediajunkie.com/2003/delillos-the-names/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:08:42 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=2243 (about evil Bob Novak) at Kevin Drum’s site. One comment mentioned the Philip Agee story. I don’t know much about it, but it may have inspired the law that was allegedly broken … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2003/delillos-the-names/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2003/diversity-in-the-real-world/ http://mediajunkie.com/2003/diversity-in-the-real-world/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:47:00 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/log/?p=2123 People Like Us, noninsane conservative columnist David Brooks writes Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2003/diversity-in-the-real-world/feed/ 0