On 9/14/05, Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org> wrote:
The October 1, 2003 weekly newsletter [3] contains what you might consider the start of "Michael Hart's blog". In it, after the NewsScan and Edupage items, Michael introduced a section entitled "[And A Few Articles That Didn't Get Enough Coverage]", including articles (apparently written by MH himself) about (1) presidential candidate Howard Dean and (2) cracking in the polar ice caps. This section soon became "More Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media" and continues to this day.
In the July 7, 2004 newsletter, he added: STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK SIMPLE SOLUTION OF THE WEEK July 28, 2004: ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK August 11, 2004: ODD GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS OF THE WEEK October 20, 2004: PREDICTION OF THE WEEK January 26, 2005: "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village ..." March 23, 2005: DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY [later WEEK] June 8, 2005: POEM OF THE WEEK
Many of these sections continue to appear in the newsletter.
That's really the problem, IMO. When it was just NewsScan and Edupage items, it was a little noisy, but they were skimmable. Is there anything relevant to PG in the recent newsletter that hasn't been in a dozen before? If there is anything at all, I didn't notice it. I'm not against noting bits of news of interest to PG, but the newsletter is so swamped with extraneous stuff, most of which is repeated in every newsletter that I don't waste my time try to dig anything of use anymore.