What to do with your Twitter archive
I requested and downloaded my Twitter archive ZIP file. Now what?
Month: July 2023
Why “Chicagoland”
WBEZ’s Curious City looks into “Chicagoland,” the term, its origins, purpose, and definition—its boundaries. Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. “Colonel” McCormick commissioned James O’Donnell Bennett to write a series of Chicago region travel articles. That’s how the word made its first appearance nearly 100 years ago in the July 27, 1926 edition of the Chicago Tribune. … Read more
Chicago Reader, my former colleagues, and I won the 2023 AAN Award for Special Section
First Place: Chicago Reader – “The People Issue (Volume 52, Number 3)”
John Scalzi: “Preparing My X-it”
“With the switchover in name, I think this is a fine time to start disentangling myself from Musk’s Folly, whatever it is called … ”
WHPK funding crisis
J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil in yesterday’s “Gossip Wolf” column: In April, the student-run Program Coordinating Council, which allocates student government money every year, gave WHPK $20,600 for its next annual budget—about 35 percent of its $57,490 request. … This year the council covered only operating costs, so WHPK needs help—it wants the university to … Read more