Envisioning The Future
Apparently we have not made a lot of progress…. The late 19th Century was one very much like our own in many ways. It was an era which saw an explosion of new technologies that were rapidly changing the...
Read moreA Week in Venice
Breakfast at the Gritti Palace I had not been back to Venice for more than a decade. The first time I went it was when I was a kid with a backpack. The second time I went, it was...
Read morePowerful Video
96 simultaneous videos of faces from Hungary Yesterday we spent the day at the Venice Biennale, the great modern art exhibition. Even for someone who lives over the MoMA, it was an overwhelming show. Building after building, pavilion after...
Read moreAny Idiot Can Do This
Which way to the unemployment line? Yesterday, I was quoted in an interview with Randy Dotinga of The Voice of San Diego talking about video saying “any idiot can shoot good basic video”. Over at b-roll.net, ‘chestfever’ responded by...
Read moreInto The Newsroom
All yours for only $39.95 About a million years ago, or so, I was a PhD candidate in Islamic History. I got out of that business because a) I have a hell of time learning Arabic, and b) with...
Read moreLearn Baby, Learn
The world’s largest sailing ship, the Thomas W. Lawson, built in 1902, long after steam power dominate shipping. Mary Tripsas, a professor at Harvard Business School wrote a fascinating piece for The New York Times this morning about technological change...
Read moreVideojournalism Comes to Beirut
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWygB5r0Ycw[/youtube] A few days ago I got an email from Channel 1 VJ Marcel Theroux, who was shooting video for The Guardian. Now, a posting from another Channel 1 VJ, David Dunkley Gyimah who has been in Beirut teaching...
Read moreThe Grand Hotel
Sunset  at the Canaves Suites in Santorini…not the view of the parking lot in Chevy Chase. This week we are just hanging out at the Canaves Suites Hotel in Santorini. Nice. But the blog is about the Embassy Suites...
Read moreThe Brooklyn Bridge and The Web
A bridge to the future… I have just finished reading The Great Bridge by David McCullough. It’s the story of the design and construction of The Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge, designed buy John Roebling and built by his son...
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