Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tom Johnson, Former Chairman & CEO of Chesapeake Corporation, a specialty packaging company, has joined Boardroom Consultants’ Advisory Board.
Nitpicker (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Barb Kaye, Ph.D., of University of Tennessee, and Tom Johnson, Ph.D., Texas Tech, are working on a study looking at the use of online sources for political information. Go help them out .
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The PGA Tour qualifying tournament is the ultimate sports high-wire act with the flimsiest of safety nets. Negotiate it successfully and enjoy extreme financial and confidence-building success. Stumble early, and the fall can be precipitous. Tom Johnson, evidently, has a bit of circus daredevil in him. For the fifth time in five years, the Del Campo High School graduate and Weaverville resident advanced...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Tom Johnson writes a great essay about voting. He begins: “I love election day. I love voting. I love the old people who work in the polling places, their friendly, businesslike way of going about things.” Go read it.
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
Tom Johnson, a professor in journalism at Texas Tech, emailed me to ask if I could put out an invitation to the FA readers to take a survey on how you use the internet and blogs during this election. They have done these surveys for each of the last four election cycles. Here [...]
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Some murderous Barack Obama protesters outside of Asheville, NC, shot a 75-lb black bear cub in the head and dumped its body on the campus of Western Carolina University. They draped Obama campaign signs over its head. “This is certainly unacceptable,” said Tom Johnson, the chief of university police. “Someone was wanting to draw attention [...]
The Rambler (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Get it from Closet of Curiosities.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Associated Artists Productions presents A Famous Studios production of Cooking with Gags starring Popeye The Sailor . Directed by I. Sparber . Animation by Tom Johnson and William Henning . Story by Carl Meyer . Scenics by Anton Loeb . Music by Winston Sharples . What's on your mind tonight?
Later On (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Via Andrew Sullivan, Janine Davidson has an interesting column in today’s WaPo. It begins: Tom Johnson and M. Chris Mason have an excellent short piece, “All Counterinsurgency Is Local,” in the latest Atlantic magazine. They critique the NATO counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan for its ill-conceived emphasis on strengthening national-level governance and its disregard for the smaller districts,...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Tom Johnson and M. Chris Mason have a very sharp article on Afghanistan in the current Atlantic. Money quote: Politically and strategically, the most important level of governance in Afghanistan is neither national nor regional nor provincial. Afghan identity is...
Headline Junky (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Janine Davidson at Intel Dump cites a Tom Johnson and M. Chris Mason piece in the Atlantic, All Counterinsurgency is Local , before discussing the tension between the tactics of counterinsurgency, which emphasize engaging with governance and authority at the most immediate (ie. local) level, and the strategy of counterinsurgency, which emphasizes shoring up governance and authority at the national...
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Tom Johnson and Chris Mason, les bête noires of Afghan studies, have a hard-hitting piece in The Atlantic about how we’re doing it all wrong wrong wrong in Afghanistan: Local teams with on-site development personnel—“District Development Teams,” if you will—could change all that, and also serve to support nonmilitary development projects. Oh they must mean like the [...]
THE CONTENT POOL (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
As part of the on-going online discussion about the impact and usability of the Google Chrome comic, fellow blogger Tom Johnson asked me if I had more samples and references for comic book style documentation. As I mentioned before the "technical comics" I've done to date have been more like illustrated white papers than "how to" instruction manuals, but over the years I have come across a few examples...
thoughts to blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
So my brother is an artist... graphic design is his focus... here are some of his pieces: Pretty awesome if you ask me... And then there's my friend Tom Johnson (who you'll see floating around this blog)... here's what he likes to do: Tom pictured here: Whoops, I mean here:
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Exeter Chiefs are looking to adapt the way they play to get the most out of the new laws next season, according to Tom Johnson.
