“After eight chapters covering the problems of the presidency, the reader has every right to expect the payoff to come in the last installment, in which the author will provide a series of reforms designed to solve he problems he’s outlined. Natural as that expectation is, it’s also unrealistic.” Gene Healy for President!

How to Build a Paper Research Database. Great post I was pointed to from the 43f forums. Explains how Taylor Branch used an access database to take notes on and then sort hundred of sources for his Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Martin Luther King. Branch did it in Access, and this article recommends Excel. I’m looking for something better. Bento doesn’t seem quite there yet.

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Feb 25, 2008 | Comment | Tags: , ,

From SecondRotation.com’s about page, the most awful sentence I’ve read all day: “We’re also impacting the problem of e-waste.”

Jeff Howe writes that he’s finished writing his book on crowdsourcing, which I can’t wait to read given my interests. He passes along a neat tip for would-be authors: “When I started work on the book a friend told me to buy magazine holders for each chapter in the book. Best. Advice. Ever.)”

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