Jeff Beckham

Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY is reporting that Whole Foods is partnering with Active Interest Media to launch Whole Foods Market Magazine. No word on whether rahodeb will be a featured columnist.

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The New York Times has a terrific story today about the long-running feud between heart surgeons Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, which started in 1969 when Cooley took an artificial heart from the DeBakey’s lab and implanted it in a patient. Now Cooley, 87, and DeBakey, 99, have made up.
Interestingly, Dr. Cooley played basketball at [...]

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I’ve been neglecting posting here while I’ve been spending time posting over at Austinist, writing a couple of sports-related items per week. Along the way, I’ve discovered a hidden gem among Austin sports sites: Barking Carnival. Writing under pseudonyms like “ChrisApplewhite”, “EyesOfTX”, and “HenryJames”, the Barking Carnival crew has been putting out some of the [...]

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The Austin Chronicle rolled out its list of winners in its annual Best of Austin awards today. Congratulations to Eileen Smith of In the Pink Texas and Texas Monthly for a dual win in the Readers’ Poll, pulling down honors as Best Blogger and for ITPT as best Local Political Blog.
Also congrats to Allen Chen [...]

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Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith announced today on his blog that he’s hired Eileen Smith (no relation) as the first editor of the magazine’s website, TexasMonthly.com.
Eileen has run the In the Pink Texas site and been a senior editor at Pluck.
This should be an excellent hire for the magazine. I met Eileen briefly during a [...]

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The folks over at the Bivings Report have ranked the Austin American-Statesman’s website among their Top 10 Best Newspaper Websites in the United States.
Statesman.com came in at No. 8. The rankings said:
We really like the unique layout and coloring of this site’s homepage. We’re also giving this site points for allowing anyone to blog and [...]

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In addition to the occasional post here, I’ve begun writing at Austinist. Editor Allen Chen and the crew sent out a call for contributors and I was more than happy to be asked to participate. I’ll be writing mostly about Austin sports, but will slip in other posts, too.
My debut was today, with a post [...]

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Guy Kawasaki provides a photographic tour of his recent visit to the headquarters of Trek Bicycles, and there’s a section of particular interest to folks in these parts. In the atrium of the main building, there’s a Lance Armstrong history wall, lined with a bike to represent each of his seven Tour de France victories. [...]

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There’s a nice interactive feature on Statesman.com that lets you search the Austin Police Department’s records for any property crime reported in 2006. What’s more, there’s a slick Google Maps interface that allows you to zoom in on the location and get more details, including whether the report led to an arrest.
You can search the [...]

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There’s a great commercial for EA Sports NCAA 08 college football game featuring a UT fan by the name of Lee Jennings. But Burnt Orange Nation has discovered that “Lee” is actually aspiring actor Toby Meuli, a Baylor grad now living in Los Angeles.
The commercial lists Jennings’ online player handle as Longhorn36. So am I [...]

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