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Posting from beautiful Guanajuato in the central highlands of Mexico … so far I have not found an Internet cafe with a decent connection speed, so I’m plowing through a backlog of e-mail slowly.
UPDATE: Photos on Flickr.
By Mindy McAdams
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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online
Posting from beautiful Guanajuato in the central highlands of Mexico … so far I have not found an Internet cafe with a decent connection speed, so I’m plowing through a backlog of e-mail slowly.
UPDATE: Photos on Flickr.
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