WiFi at the Monastery
6 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1274. Good condition. This week we are living at Renscombe Farm in the village of Worth Matravers on the south coast of England. The house was once a monastery, built in the 13th...
Read moreIs China Inevitable?
Inevitable…yet moral and complying with the will of God Last week, in Venice, we went past the home of Marco Polo. Marco Polo, for those who went to public school in the US in the past 30 years and...
Read moreMonk v. Ayatollah
Local author… Although Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1452, the true political impact of that technology was not really realized until 1517. It was then that Martin Luther (pictured above) a disgruntled Monk from Wittenberg, Germany, began to...
Read moreWhat Is Video Literacy?
What does it say? When Gutenberg first laid paper to inked typeface, there were almost no rules of grammar. For more than 1,000 years, literacy, where there was any at all, had rested in the far off monastaries. Punctuaction,...
Read moreBenjamin Franklin – Web Videographer
Franklin was born into a relatively poor family of 17 children. His father was a soap maker, when soap was made from discarded animal fat. Not a noble or well paid profession. But Franklin quickly embraced the...
Read moreHello Mrs. Chips
Good Morning Brazil… This morning, we wake up in the almost incomprehensible Sao Paolo. With a population of nearly 20 million people, covering an area of 3,108 square miles, it is the largest city in the world. (by some...
Read moreThe Morning After
Until you learned to read and write, this thing was utterly worthless…. In the past two weeks, we have trained 80 people as new videojournalists, plus the folks at McGraw Hill and the folks at the Star Ledger we...
Read moreThe Day the Monks Bought The Farm
It’s over In 1452 the Monks were arrogant. “Have you seen the ‘books’ that Gutenberg is turning out with his printing press”? they asked each other. “What a disaster! No golden lettering, no hand-drawn cherubs. What terrible technical quality!...
Read moreGeorge Lucas Speaks
I didn’t say it, George Lucas did: Moving Beyond Moving Pictures: Spring 2007 By George Lucas ’66 When Johannes Gutenberg set out to build a printing press in the mid-15th century,the last thing on his mind was starting a...
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