The "R" is for "Bob"...

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The game of the name

June 11, 2009, 12:03 pm

University e-mail honchos insist on basing my e-mail address on “Robert,” although everyone calls me “Bob.” As a result, “rstepno” versus “bstepno” (or even “rbstepno”) versus just “stepno” or just...

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The blog is secondary

May 27, 2011, 10:14 am

On this demo site, dated blog posts like this one are not the main thing… The “Home” link on the menu goes to a static page. These blog posts are available on the “XBlog” link — although I could call...

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RSS Feeds for Fun and Info

May 27, 2011, 11:29 am

WordPress generates an RSS feed or “subscribable content” for all of the posts in a blog, including the blog section of this site. It also generates another RSS feed for any comments on the blog posts....

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Keeping links up to date

November 14, 2011, 8:03 am

This is mostly here to put a fresh date on this demo blog-post section of the site. It’s also just a reminder that this is not my main blog, or even my secondary one. See Other Journalism and Newspaper...

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Scratchpad for newswriting class

April 10, 2012, 7:25 am

Pretend your textbook’s speech by Michael Gartner was actually given at Radford and that you were in the audience with your laptop or smartphone… Pretend the “comment” area on this message is actually...

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News from my other blogs

January 4, 2013, 3:23 pm

This note is to welcome in the New Year and provide links to my other blogs: http://stepno.wordpress.com (About 25 pages, mostly in a Video archive section, and more than 100 blog posts on journalism...

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WordPress security links

March 11, 2012, 9:36 am

Being based on the interaction among widgets, scripts and theme page templates built by many hands, WordPress sites can fall victim to hacks, pranks and destructive attacks. While WordPress is...

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Timeline tool

June 23, 2012, 9:59 am

You may not be able to use this tool within a WordPress.com site — I haven’t tried yet — but on sites that allow full use of javascript libraries, Timeline looks very useful for research reports and...

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