The law of the little shovel

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.If you walk around town with a little shovel, you'll just end up digging thousands of little holes, not one big one.Call on one person ten...

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Captain, My Captain

     In 1987, I was a very wet-behind-the-ears journalist in Tyler, Texas.  I was working on a documentary on the 50th anniversary of the disastrous school explosion in New London, Texas.  On a March...

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Walter's lesson

Here's the thing about the life of Walter Cronkite:At every turn, he acted as if he had a responsibility to his audience. He didn't do the right thing because he thought it would help him get ahead...

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API Showcase: Zemanta for Freebase Acre

Freebase is an open database of the world’s information and at Zemanta we’re really excited about things that they do. We even support them through our Semantic API as one of the responses is...

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And that's the way it is…

NY Times: Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies.

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