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Mark Rogers

The newsonaut is Mark Rogers, a writer, designer and web coder living in beautiful British Columbia.

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After an absence of nine years, The Animal Reporter is back with an inspiring post about the unsung heroes making lives better for the abused and homeless. I played a supporting role with a spiffy new WordPress theme that I made from...
Back in August, I demonstrated the power of a drop in the bucket. One of my drops in the bucket is supporting Canada’s economy by buying Canadian as much as possible. Here’s what my mornings look like these days. Granola — Oatally...
I’ve been using Safari for the past couple of years, assuming that it would run best on my aging iMac, now so old it’s stuck on Ventura. I mean, surely a browser built by Apple would be optimized for computers built by Apple. But in the...
Research on environmental reporting confirms my own experience of late — positive stories are more engaging and more likely to encourage you to help with solutions. Awni Etaywe, a lecturer in linguistics at Charles Darwin University in...
What’s the point of making a contribution or doing my part when it amounts to little more than a drop in the bucket? You may have heard people say this, or thought it yourself. I know I have. But lately I’ve been thinking about the...
In the course of just under a month, I’ve done a U-turn on my opinion of Fix the News. I now recommend that you stay away from them, and here’s why. On July 10, I wrote a post about how Fix the News does a good job of improving your...
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