JamesMarcus

James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.

my website: http://www.housemirth.blogspot.com/

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mpchekuri6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hey James. like to be your friend
http://www.propeller.com/member/mpchekuri/submissi...
Newperson7 months, 2 weeks ago

Hey James
Just stoped by to say hi and thanks for the great job you do. NP
shakiraaforu7 months, 4 weeks ago

Good.........
STONERS8 months, 2 weeks ago

James,
Excellent job, great submissions and thank you for all your help.You are a great friend and your WIR's is a great way to catch up..

Wishing You All The Best,
STONERS...;~]
rightfromwrong10 months, 2 weeks ago

Hey Marcus - doesn't this Sandmonster know that these 2 wars were about imperialism, I mean afterall the Cdn. troops are protecting a gas pipeline and the "Twin Towers" which were hit by the planes had a lot of help like a lack of security on the weekend before, people doing wiring on that weekend, Bush's brother working for the same security firm as the one in charge of those bldgs, explosions happening on the sub levels as well as above and the fact that the bldgs. fell in 10seconds which indicates it being brought down like an abandoned building.
If I was an honest President and there was no hidden "agenda" I would have had the debris analyzed but Bush knew what he would have found
lebanonnews1 year ago

Hi i would like to be your friend, and i'll be very happy if you join my new group http://www.propeller.com/groups/obama-vs-mccain/ Regards.
lebanonnews1 year ago

Hi i would like to be your friend, and i'll be very happy if you join my new group http://www.propeller.com/groups/obama-vs-mccain/..... Regards.
cyberandy1 year, 1 month ago

wow, you write about a pretty diverse range of topics...kudos!
PainGoddess1 year, 1 month ago

Thanx for the response. My name by the way is sort of my old one from D a long while back.
Shadowolf1 year, 2 months ago

(If ya ever wanted to see me serious, James, here's your chance)

NEWS FLASH!!!
...being a Veteran does not, in and of itself confer Honor...it merely sets a standard of Honor for a person to live by...the choices a person makes, the decisions they adopt...THESE define Honor...look at John McCain in light of how he lives his life, his choices and decisions, his votes,...

...then ask yourself this...if he was so "honorable"; why would he need to wage a campaign based solely on lies,smears and spin...

...oh, one more question...is a person who puts narrow partisan precepts above the health and welfare of this Nation Honorable??? Is somebody who discards the principles of Justice, and the Rights of WE THE PEOPLE...are such people honorable???
ZigiMe1 year, 3 months ago

Things are looking up...
ipodwheels1 year, 3 months ago

hey James,
It would be naive, I think to conclude that you guys have not thought about this change well. I think the added features are great but the design could till use some improvement. I don't like whining, so instead of complaining, I made a mock up of how minor adjustments can make a great deal of difference for the site. I just hope you guys and your designers check it out.
Ipodwheels
P.S. here's the link to the story.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/07/24/how-the-propeller-design-should-have-been/
Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 3 months ago

Hi James, hate to be the bearer of complaints. It seems your getting an earful. I always liked the site, I just hoped the infrastructure would improve, that the bugs would cease, that it would work better. This new interface is horribly amateur. So much of the site's functionality is lost. I strongly feel you need to consider returning to the old interface.( or at least use it for a model) no one has a kind word for the new site. It's like a really cheesy version of Digg. Ugh!
Fond regards to you personally,
RFE
Mutainia1 year, 3 months ago

I know I'm going to get attacked for this, but...I like it.
ind061 year, 3 months ago

O mean , honestly, look to the right. The Mr Wizard guy is telling us "Don't miss these hot new stories! cliky clik" Are they serious? CLIKY CLIK? Look, you want me to see the hot new stories, put up a list of them, not a cartoon telling me to cliky freaking clik. This is a disaster.
ind061 year, 3 months ago

JamesMarcus, please remove this misguided attempt to better Propeller. PLEASE just get rid of it! Take it away, work on it some more. Then, when it's ready, let the top Propeller users beta test it to work out the kinks. Please.
PresidentBuckheadd1 year, 3 months ago

Who says this nation is great? PresidentBuckheadd! The attempted rouse (by changing to this design) of the Propeller members has done nothing but subvert the people. We the people, want to salvage propeller and destroy this spurious annoyance.
As President, I am tenacious and hope that this website does not wane. Hopefully, you and the other scouts will thwart the destruction of propeller, by reverting to the old design.
Thanks for voting me into office guys!!
Will13131 year, 3 months ago

Gotta mirror almost everyone.. no make that everyone.. this was not a good thing...
BronxBomber1 year, 3 months ago

James, I gotta tell yah. I don't like the new interface. Sorry but this isn't up to par.
Just thought I'd let you know I miss the old Propeller. Can we have it back?
BB
hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago

Hi James,
I consider the design of this "new" site so outstandingly BAD that you should revert to the old version until such time as the new version reaches a minimum level of acceptability in user friendliness.
1. Visually it is very frustrating and inefficient. I must now click on poorly coordinated buttons and pass through MANY pages to see the same information that was visible at a glance previously. For example, it now takes me many times longer to review messages sent to me (click and view MANY different pages in place of the single scrollable page previously).
2. The choice of categories seems poor and very limiting. I would have guessed politics was one of your most frequented categories, but it seems to have been relegated to a "group" that may or may not let me in.
3. I regard the use of groups as the major carrier for certain topics such as politics to be counterproductive. I would prefer to see the comments of all members of prepeller (even occasional ones that may not join groups).
4. The idea of "groups" as something that might be attractive for "huddling" of what I suspect will be small subsets of people seems to have exerted a fascination on the designers that leads to limitations that may cripple the site for many users.
5. User friendliness is extremely poor and makes trying to use propeller much slower and more painful. Apart from much reduced information content on a page, the need to view many more pages to achieve the same result is deadly. For example, it is now much more painful to submit a story. In place of a single page, I must now pass through a whole series of pages - which because it requires repeated communication can make the process of submitting a story so painful as to be abandoned.
I had a look at your tracker. Your new version seems to have stopped propeller dead in its tracks. Almost nothing is being submitted or commented on (assuming I see them all). In the interests of survival, perhaps you need to revert to the previous version as a measure of absolute priority?
Cheers.