studying the media ecosystem
Over the weekend my blog host, Scot Hacker at Bridhouse, converted this blog from Moveable Type to Word Press. Things are still in a mess. It’s like moving when the stuff has arrived but none of the boxes have been unpacked. Eventually I’ll get it sorted out. Meanwhile, Word Press is easier to use and has the [...]
(Returning Readers: On Thursday I married my typsetting business partner in a big, fat Greek wedding. First time visitors: this story began Monday.)
I’m not sure when I told my wife that I wanted to pull out of the Barter Bank paper. We had no time to talk before the wedding, what with all the feasting [...]
(Returning Readers: Stuff happened yesterday and I couldn’t write. I resume today, on the drive from Eureka to Sacramento in order to marry my typsetting business partner. First time visitors: this story began Monday).
As I recall, my wife-to-be had flown from Eureka to Sacramento a day or two ahead of me to get fitted for [...]
(Yesterday I explained how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper, only to realize the foolishness of attempting this when I knew next to nothing about the community. I ended that chapter with the decision to open a typesetting shop as a fallback plan — which allowed the [...]
For some time I’ve been pontificating about new media from the relative security of a day job. It occurs to me that the reasonable reader might ask: who does this guy think he is?
Well, who I am is a story more than 50 years in the making, but the distilled version is that I am [...]
Kevin Sites, the globetrotting multimedia journalist for Yahoo’s Hot Zone, regaled a crown of several dozen aspiring and practicing journalists last night at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He shared the lessons he learned about what media tool to use for whic task, the ethical and moral dilemmas he’s faced, and the hope he’s [...]
Reporters Sans Frontiers (Without Borders) held protests in Paris and New York to call attention to the “Thirteen Enemies of the Internet” — countries, including China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia, — that selectively block access to information and imprison people who post articles that go against the ruling interests.
In addition to decrying the actions [...]
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