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Last Thursday, I attended the fifth installment of Ignite Baltimore, an event designed to get people excited about creating positive change in Baltimore.
And yet, somehow, the experience had the exact opposite effect on me… and this got me thinking about HOW we talk about the things we most care about, and why we might want [...]

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Justin on February 8th, 2010

As you may have heard, the Mid-Atlantic US (in which I currently live) got hammered by a massive snowstorm this weekend.  Weather reports had been sensationalizing the potentially apocalyptic effects of the storm for days, warning that we could see a record snowfall and complete paralysis of city functions.  And if you doubt that people [...]

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Justin on February 4th, 2010

Jonathan Fields recently posed a harsh question to his readers: Would you pay to read your own blog?  It was a reframing of a comment by Remarkablogger’s Michael Martine, and its goal, as Martine says, is “to give people a new angle from which to honestly think about the quality of what they write and [...]

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