Todays terrifying shooting rampage at Virginia Tech is still developing as of this writing. This is how i found out:

NBC just called, I’m to hop on a charter out of Dulles. My next post will be from VA Tech. All of the most dramatic video thus far has come from cell phones
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I’m a bit suspect of all the latest kerfuffle over a “Blogger Code of Ethics”.  In it, Tim O’Reilly and many other well-intentioned folk are trying to codify behavior on the internet.  It all seems a little too group-think for my tastes, and while I’m sure there are noble and useful ideas contained within such a [...]

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As I came up through the ranks of TV news photographer, I always found that any given station or market had it’s wise sage. This is the kind of guy who would always be in the right place at the right time to get the picture, command the respect of all of his peers, [...]

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