Newspapers….and Coal
Can’t see the forest….. In 1450, Europe suffered its first major energy crisis. It ran out of wood. For more than 2,000 years Europeans had depended upon the seemingly endless forests of Europe to provide them with all they...
Read moreSki & Shoot
Could you go back and do that again? I didn’t learn to ski until I was 40. My ex was a Canadian, and started skiing at the age of 3. Her parents had a ski house in Sugarbush, Vermont....
Read moreWelcome to the Video Revolution
call now. operators are standing by… The Travel Channel Academy is a great course, but its also expensive. $2000 is a lot to commit for a novice, (not that we don’t have our share of novices in the course)....
Read moreCritical Mass
Chicago reactor team. Enrico Fermi, first row, first on left. For more than a year, physicist Enrico Fermi and his team had been building a pile of blocks under the racquet courts at the University of Chicago. The pile...
Read moreKPIX SF Goes VJ
Two down, three to go… KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco announced today that they are moving to a VJ-driven newsroom. The official press release today said: Feb 11, 2009 3:58 PM EST KPIX management told the staff...
Read moreThe World’s First Liquidity Crisis
The depth of the current financial crisis is far more than a mere recession. Trillions of dollars seem to have effectively disappeared.
Read moreRight Facts, Wrong Conclusion
Columnist and writer Michael Kinsley in the New York Times today opines, You Can’t Sell News by the Slice. Kinsley, like everyone else, is grappling with the search for the Holy Grail of how to keep newspapers alive.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttQxQfYYaY[/youtube] Jeff Day had never touched a video camera or an edit system before he walked into the Travel Channel Academy course in DC on Thursday. We put him through our extremely rigorous 4-day video bootcamp. We emphasize excellence....
Read moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
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