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What do you know? The Unusually Useful Web Book: Everything We’ve Learned about Why Sites Succeed! by June Cohen IS unusually useful. It’s been my nearly constant reading for several weeks, prompting some very productive activities at work as we plan a revamped web magazine.

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There’s a lovely post by the Velveteen Rabbi about a weekend retreat: Pesach at Elat Chayyim. It’s a longish post but well worth reading.

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I’m making a debut appearance as a guestblogger over on the wonderful Bakerina’s blog with this entry:
I’m not, nor have been, Jewish, but I find the Pesach holiday very meaningful. Pesach is the commemoration of the Exodus story and the creation of the Jewish people, but it can also be a universal story of enslavement [...]

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The state of self-publishing is reviewed in today’s The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > The Book Business: How to Be Your Own Publisher.
Indeed, someday you may be able to walk into your grocery store and convert your Christmas photos into an instant coffee-table book written in your own deathless prose, [...]

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Liberal Quakerism and Unitarian Universalism are certainly comfortable fellow-travelers. Today I had an opportunity to compare them in a structured way. The Unitarian Universalist Association (where I work) has a newcomers bulletin board, where visitors can post questions and have them answered by staff. Today this came into my email (edited, of course, for privacy):
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Steph Swainston
An engaging rogue kept me going through the disorienting writing style. There are not one but two surreal worlds (and yes, I really mean surreal–I just looked it up). The end is also too abrupt for my taste; the major external drama is resolved, but not the internal or interpersonal ones.
Here it is at [...]

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There’s a great panel over at Barclay Press - Conversation Cafe: How (and when) then shall we die?. What these Friends say strengthens my commitment to conversations across the Quaker landscape and my conviction that we are all really Friends. The Evangelical/Fundamentalist interpretation of sexual ethics held by Evangelical Friends often makes me want to [...]

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From today’s Yahoo:

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Jeff Sharlet at The Revealer has a wonderful short essay on the death of the Pope.
Anyone who has ever watched a person slowly die, close-up, knows that it’s a story easily told — "then, he died" — and even more easily misunderstood. Those who make a moral out of another’s death serve the needs of [...]

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