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"Mommy, can you help me write something?” Gresham (age five) asked.

“What do you want to write?” Becky asked.

“How do you spell ‘Averi’?”

“A-V-E-R-I”

“Is?”

“I-S”

“Hot?”

“What?”

Communication 2.0 - Southwest Airlines is using micro-blogging to reach consumers - an interview with @SouthwestAir

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Winston was from northwest Tennessee and contacted me about a year ago. We had a few emails back and forth and I met him once at Mothership Barbecue. He was always lovely and so encouraging.

And the man could write circles around you.

Tim Chavez judges our economy based on a driveby of a restaurant featuring the ultimate in faux-Australian cuisine:

In a move that surprised even me, the Associated Press has decided to define exactly what “fair use” is, in relation to their content. While the general rule of writing has always been to just quote your source, anything 5 words or longer is subject to a sliding-scale fee, depending on how much you want to quote.

His point about the AP-muchado-about-nothing over blogging their stories and fair use needs to be read:

When your neighbors don't see you as an American anymore, it's hardly a place you can call home "People in Tennessee are scared of the police and people in other states think we're racists." The Tennessean reports here that Robertson County has lost a U.S. citizen couple due to "suspiciously frequent" traffic stops.

Michael Silence says that political blogs aren’t living in reality:

You know, there’s a reason blogs like BusyMom get 10 times the traffic of political stories and blog posts. The “mommy blogs” deal in reality.