Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Postblogging Technology, November, 1952, I: Everyone Likes (M)ike

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R._C._, The Mayflower, Washington, D.C. Dear Father: If this letter gives you the sense that I am feeling a bit out of sorts for reasons tha...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: More From the Shimmering Sky

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  Nine years ago, so in 2014, some vaguely professional media people up in Nebraska decided that these six young people had something going ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1952: Jogging Stroller

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  Caroline Geoghegan Having long since covered Mr. Atle e's atom bomb, I definitely want to do a technological appendix for the month t...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Postblogging Technology, October 1952, II: Chess, Not Checkers

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: So we are now very much in the middle of a genuine school year with class work and also ...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVI: A Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition in the Maghreb?

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  So, three things: i) There is no way that I am not posting this ad, especially the week I read Edith Outland on " the Effingham libel...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Postblogging Technology, October 1952, I: The Public Interest

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"Canon," it turns out, is the Japanese form of Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Mercy. Gung Hey Fat Choy! R_.,C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, C...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1943--1952: Uhm, The Electric Typewriter?

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  I was going through my folder of ads looking for a typewrite ad specifically when I found this. (Truth in advertising: I was going in alph...