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“The Last Log of the Titanic” (eBook review)

January 15, 2011
“The Last Log of the Titanic” (eBook review)

Saturday Reading The Last Log of the Titanic, © 2001 by David G Brown, published by McGraw-Hill: Available through Amazon.com in eBook format for reading on the Kindle and Kindle App-enabled platforms. Serious examinations of events associated with the Titanic wreck have interested me since the 1970s. Back then there was still the mystique of not knowing with absolute certainty where the ship had ended up, in one piece or two, so to speak. Robert Ballard’s definitive answer to that question was still more than a decade off. And somewhere in that time frame I discovered there were politics...

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Do eBooks portend increased impact for digital media?

January 2, 2011

We’ve been told that websites must be collaborative to be “successful.” Search-Engine Optimization 101 holds that reference links are rewarded with higher listings placement. Blogs actively solicit comments by reply. Forum moderators facilitate discussion threads with a bias toward issue non-resolution to keep participants clicking back for more. There’s no doubt in my mind that a URL along the lines of warrenreport.com would never accumulate the sort of hits as we’d see on an alternative site insisting that the government will never, ever honestly tell you all of what really happened at Dealey Plaza. “Confusing” trumps “clear” in that...

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Dell Deaton

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