The 1-Man TV Station in NJ that Scares The Crap out of Teheran
Taking a break from undermining the regime in Iran… Mehdi Saharkhiz stopped by the house yesterday afternoon for a chat. I read about him in The Guardian last week and was immediately intrigued. The headline in the Guardian ran:...
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Survival of the fittest Last night, BBC America ran a David Attenborough documentary on Darwin. You probably could not run this on an American network, as it did not give time to ‘intelligent design’, but for the UK it...
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A digital mosaic of the world in real time We are a world whose parameters are set by technology, yet we are slow to respond. When the technology of communications allowed us only 3 television channels, all programs were...
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...
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No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
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“We’ll be back with sports and weather after this….” Yesterday, we were talking about Videovolunteers and the idea of empowering local people with cameras, edits and training. This reminded me of a story. Stick with it, it has an...
Read moreMoore’s Law, Iran and The Internet
Long before Al Gore… the Internet was actually invented here…. In 760 BC, the Great Shah of Iran had two passions: warfare and games. Thus it was that his Vizir invented something for him that combined both. He called...
Read moreThe Ayatollah and Me
Thanks AK! The release of the British hostages from Iran brought back warm memories of how my TV career started. As it is Good Friday, I thought I would share them with you. I did not start off looking...
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