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💻 I know many of you write your own blogs. I’ve learned a lot about how to write from Johanna Rothman. She shares some good perspective on how to avoid perfectionism in your writing and just publish already. Read Perfection Rules in Writing? You Might Be Micromanaging Yourself

Carnegie Library
Minolta XD-11, 50mm f/1.7 MD Rokkor-X, Ilford FP4 Plus, Ilford ID-11 1+1, 2021

💻 Are you familiar with the One America News Network? It’s a news network that’s farther right than Fox News. Karl Bode has uncovered its origins: AT&T, which wanted a news network that promoted its interests. Read AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook

📷 Alex Luyckx reviews the Minolta XD-11 — his was fully working, as mine was not, so it’s a stronger review. Read Camera Review Blog No. 136 – Minolta XD

📷 The more obscure the camera, the better. I’d never heard of the Chinon CP-7m, but arh came across one and gave it a short review. Read The Chinon CP-7m | m7-PC nonihC\

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7 responses to “Recommended reading”

  1. brandib1977 Avatar
    brandib1977

    The story on perfection rules really speaks to me. This is how I write for my blog. I just write, fix and go most of the time because I use this blog largely as a way to force myself to write daily. It’s as much an exercise for my brain as it is for publishing what I have to say. Occasionally there will be something I agonize over (in fact, I have one now) but I mainly go with it and forgive my mistakes later. It’s freeing .

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    1. Jim Grey Avatar
      Jim Grey

      It is sort of freeing, but then I go back months or years later and find I published something that was barely coherent.

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      1. brandib1977 Avatar
        brandib1977

        Lol. I probably have that too.

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  2. Steve Mitchell Avatar
    Steve Mitchell

    and we thought propaganda was the invention of Herr Goebbels ;) There seem to be so many partisan and biased information sources these days it is no wonder folks disappear down rabbit holes….and then there is Facebook which seems to be all about dividing us into warring tribes

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    1. Jim Grey Avatar
      Jim Grey

      There’s profit in dividing people.

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    2. tbm3fan Avatar
      tbm3fan

      Frankly I am all for shutting down Facebook. Many of us were able to live through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s without it quite well. Mark Zukerberg can stick his morphed creation, which he defends vigorously, where the sun doesn’t shine.

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      1. Jim Grey Avatar
        Jim Grey

        I think Facebook is in decline, so it might take care of itself.

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