New “About” on my blog

November 23, 2017

Just a quick heads up for anyone who still reads this: I posted a new About Me page on my site (the other one – it’s kicking off again). Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving! Are you giving thanks? Are you thankful? I hope you are. All things considered, I am. Very.

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November 24, 2016 (Thurs.)

November 23, 2017

And so it’s Thanksgiving today. I let myself be pulled into clicking on a Washington Post article as I went to my phone to look for the Focus@Will app I like to use during #MorningPages. It was a “cheat sheet” for Black Friday, and I learned (as if I need to) about which stores open […]

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November 22, 2017 (Wednesday): Beginning “So Last Year”

November 22, 2017

Note: This Thanksgiving Eve November 22, 2017 sticky post starts the year-long “So Last Year” project, which begins with Thanksgiving 2016, November 24, 2016. For many months now I’ve kept to a journaling routine called #MorningPages, popularized by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way. Writing longhand, avoiding pixels and screens, the routine has […]

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My review of California Design, 1930-1965

April 4, 2014

Here’s a link to my article about the exhibition California Design, 1930-1965, which originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (aka LACMA) and is currently on view at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum. It will be published in North Shore Art*Throb next week, but you can read an advance copy on my blog: Living […]

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Living and Selling the Dream: Exploring Lifestyle Aspirations through California Design

April 4, 2014

Here’s my review of the exhibition California Design, to be published in Art*Throb next week (where it will be illustrated with a Julius Shulman photo of The Stahl House, but I don’t dare wade into those copyright waters here, so I’ll leave you with a link, below, to the photo in question…): Just a few […]

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Did anyone notice that there was no Sunday Links Post?

February 26, 2014

For years I’ve been using Diigo, another third-party service (and a very good one), to gather links to interesting articles. They would then get published to my Berkman blog once a week as the Sunday Links Post. But the other week I noticed that something wasn’t working, and consequently nothing got bookmarked. I missed that […]

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And the conversation continued on Facebook…

February 26, 2014

…well into the night. (Actually, over the course of a couple of days.) The conversation I mean is of course the one I started with my Feb. 20th post, Online conversations: some observations. Here’s a sample of some of what transpired on my Facebook wall in the comments: Dean Landsman, Jon Husband, Kat Herding and […]

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Blogging has changed for me. A lot. But maybe not enough.

February 20, 2014

It’s not really bye-bye Berkman blog, but I have had my own domain for ages – and today I decided to post something there. It’s about my perceptions of how blogging and online conversations have changed over the years.

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Online conversations: some observations

February 20, 2014

I don’t blog anymore and instead I occasionally scatter my thoughts on Facebook, or, in 140-character shorthand form, on Twitter. For some years now, I’ve been using third-party applications, which are “free,” but which I don’t own. I don’t post to my “Harvard/Berkman” blog, nor to my own yuleheibel DOT com blog. (Update: since writing […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 16, 2014

David Simon on America as a Horror Show on Vimeo Must-watch. QUOTE David Simon, creator of the TV series ‘The Wire,’ talks with Bill about America’s capitalism crisis. It’s a reality check from a journalist who uses TV drama to report on America from the bottom up. “The horror show is we are going to […]

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