I've been scribbling away on my book, with occasional interruptions from my subconscious: You've neglected your Open Salon blog for months! What about your legions of fans? To pacify the little guy, I'm reposting this, from September 8, 2008, even though things have changed since then.

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I'm not entirely sure what day it is, but my computer is telling me it's Saturday. This post originally appeared on June 26, 2009, under the title "Equal Pay for Equal Work". A number of very good comments are now, unfortunately, buried in the OS archives.

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I've been asked via email to explain how to repost an old Open Salon post so that it looks just as it originally appeared. Here's one way. It involves a bit of clicking around and such, but it's a straightforward process.

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This was my first post to Open Salon, on July 30, 2008. 

I confess--I have no children, and yet I read children's books. Sometimes I simply don't have the mental energy to crack open a serious adult book (think The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami, or Truth, by Simon Blackburn) or even a piece of light fiction (think Carl Hiaasen or/… Read full post »

It has been... actually, I have never posted a confession on Open Salon before. But I know the drill.

I have violated the terms of service. It was out of curiosity about... numbers. I could see which of my posts were most read, but I wanted to know by how… Read full post »

A few years ago, before the advent of the federal Do Not Call list, I met an earnest young person who worked as a telemarketer, in the comments section of a political blog.  I'll call this person Mary Din (not her real name). She'd had no luck finding a job that… Read full post »

A number of posts have appeared on OS concerning plagiarism. On one side, Catherine Forsythe publicly flagged an unattributed copy of an article in the New York Times, an obvious example of plagiarism. On the other side, perhaps, Placebostudman recently wrote, "So, why the flying-fuck-in-he/… Read full post »

During my senior year in college, I followed a regular daily schedule: Wake up, walk to classes on campus, walk back to the house, and turn on the TV at 6:00 to watch a re-run of Star Trek. It was good period in my life, a time of deep… Read full post »

Remember the old days, when paper wasn't electronic? And when a "reader" wasn't a handheld computer but the person who was doing the reading? You could go to a "bookstore" and walk down the aisles, pulling out and browsing through books made of processed tree fibers and sometimes even bovine integume… Read full post »

A meta-post on Open Salon is a post about Open Salon. I've written my share of OS meta-posts (some would say more than my share) to try to collect our observations and insights about some OS-relevant topic in an accessible form. Some of these older posts might be of interest to/… Read full post »

(This post originally appeared on June 17, 2009, and was itself an update on a post that appeared on August 11, 2008. My apologies for not leaving either one up. The comments, also helpful, are sadly gone. Kent Pitman has written a different tutorial post on creating hyperlinks on OS that… Read full post »