The Repository of All Human Knowledge
what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and...
Read moreHello Bolly
She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old...
Read moreOh wiki wiki world…
The Whole Earth Cataloge for the digital age….kind of… About two years ago, someone gave me a heads up that I had an entry in the Wikipedia under my name. Well that was nice, and a certain sign of...
Read moreThe Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLs4MrxWcs&hl=en&fs=1] [youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8euQHZ0PTM&hl=en&fs=1] First, many thanks to Buck over at b-roll.net. for finding this. Nice research! Austin likes to think of itself as ‘different’ from the rest of Texas. And now, The Austin American-Statesman takes a giant step in moving...
Read moreThe Truman Syndrome
I’m voting you off the planet…. In 1969 the first man walked on the moon. In 1972, the last man walked on the moon, and we have not been back since. That’s 36 years. For 36 years the moon...
Read moreThe Man Who Came to Breakfast
Notice the marmite…… Jeff Jarvis dropped over for breakfast yesterday. Somewhere between Dubai and Davos, he carved out an hour for a few slices of Sullivan Street Bakery sesame bread and white fish salad. He came over to talk...
Read moreGresham’s Law
World’s first media critic….. Sir Thomas Gresham was an English merchant who worked for both King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I (1519-1579) Gresham was also the world’s first media critic, although he didn’t know it at the time....
Read moreThe Word From Down Under
hopping mad… Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel sent me a very interesting article from The Australian. JOURNALISTS have been warned they cannot be spectators if they are to survive the new world of media fragmentation...
Read moreOnly Yesterday
Quiet kids, I’m trying to watch Dancing with the Stars…. In the 1920s, a new technology burst upon the scene. Radio. It was unlike anything that had ever existed before. Suddenly, you could hear events and people in your...
Read moreFlipped Out
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDBsEWoZntA&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube] Two weeks ago, I was interviewed by Jemima Kiss from The Guardian. She did the interview using a Mino Flip Cam. She propped it up on a pile of plates and let loose. Then she plugged it into...
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