Blog All Open Tabs

• Mr. Ratner’s Neighborhood: Manipulative developers, shrill protesters, and a sixteen-tower glass-and-steel monster marching inexorably forward. What the battle for the soul of Brooklyn looks like—from right next door. Related: The Atlantic Yards Report.
• The Wire behind the scenes:
  

  Whoever you were in Baltimore, you were getting fucked. The second season was to describe the death of work. The third season was to show what happens to reform and reformers and to examine the whole nature of why policy never changes.
  
  And this season is to take argument with those who feel that if you're born without privilege, but make the right set of choices, that you will be spared. To do away with that bit of national mythology.

  This is the kind of blogging I like: Stills from the set, no spoilers, and well-constructed English language.

• Future HBO links should be considered in the context of Ian McShane's lawyers' disdain for Deadwood fans.
• Coffee and Conservation, via Harold's exceptional Typepad featured weblogs.
• Jason Kottke: How I Blog. The secret sauce boils down to building trust with your readers. This is why Corporate Blogs Still Suck.
• UPDATE: Since I began drafting this post a tab to Idle Words has been opened.