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Blog Tour: Limestone Gumption by Bryan Robinson

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When Brad Pope returns to his boyhood hometown to settle a debt with his estranged father and re-establish a bond with his cantankerous Grandma Gigi, the 35-year-old psychologist becomes a prime suspect in the murder of football legend turned cave diver, Big Jake Nunn. As if being accused of murder isn’t shock enough, the psychologist is horrified by his father’s whereabouts. And Grandma Gigi and her club sisters start to look more like cold-bloodied killers than church ladies. This offbeat, fast-paced mystery witnesses beauty and brutality in a small Southern town, twisting and turning, teasing to the surface one suspicion, one misunderstanding, and one murder at a time.

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Literary Ashland with Sara Brown and Paul Steinle

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Our post-Thanksgiving show was a pre-recorded interview with Sara Brown and Paul Steinle, authors of two books on journalism, Practicing Journalism. The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate and The Power and Purpose of Journalism. Journalists Epiphanies.

Sara and Paul talked about what makes journalists tick, how they view their profession, what experiences revealed to them the nature of their profession, and what the future holds for journalism and newspapers in a digital world.

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Literary Ashland with Jim Phillips

Jim PhillipsBook CoverOur October guest was professor Jim Phillips of the Anthropology and International Studies programs at Southern Oregon University. Jim discussed his new book Honduras in Dangerous Times. Jim’s interest in Honduras and Central America goes back a long time. How long? Listen to the interview. Since then, he and his partner Lucy have been active in the human rights movements there.

 

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Literary Ashland with Jeffrey Gayton

Jeffrey GaytonOur September guest was Jeffrey Gayton, University Librarian and Director of the Learning Commons at Southern Oregon University. Jeffrey filled us in on the upcoming Ashland Book and Author Festival, his responsibilities at SOU and the role of libraries in the digital age. Spoiler alert, they are more important than ever.

 

 

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The Ethics of Ad-Blocking

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One of the features of Apple’s new iOS 9 is the ability to block content when using the Safari mobile browser. Since much of the current web content is financed by ads, marketers and content providers have expressed opposition, claiming that the foundation of providing web content as we know it is threatened. The usual narrative is this: users won’t pay for content, so the only way web publishers can pay for providing content is through advertising.

The odd thing is that the ad model first emerged in a decidedly low tech context. Traditional newspapers have always used classified and display ads to pay for a large part of the cost of delivering their content. I didn’t block those ads, or stop reading the paper. So why do I use online ad blockers?

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