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Month: February 2015

  • My Dad’s Jazz Music, Everywhere

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    James Huff
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    For many years, the only way to hear Polyhedra outside of a performance was to attend anyway and leave with a physical album. Almost thirty years after the release of their first album, my Dad’s Jazz group can now be heard and/or purchased through your favorite online music venues! Polyhedra’s albums are now available for…

  • Likes and Self-Censorship

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    James Huff
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    A friend recently asked me about transferring Likes between platforms, which got me thinking about what Likes mean to me. Upon applying a little more thought than my typical “Yay, someone liked my post!” I came to the conclusion that they were useless to me, perhaps even detrimental to my writing. Likes are an artificial…

  • The Revisionaries of Wikipedia

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    James Huff
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    Wikipedia has been with us for fourteen years, and I’m willing to bet that everyone has made use of it at least once. Perhaps some of you have even contributed content or editorial help to Wikipedia. It is, after all, the encyclopedia editable by everyone, right? Over the past eleven years, a group of core…