studying the media ecosystem
Dina Rasor, co-author, Betraying our Troops
Dina Rasor is a Northern California woman who has been investigating waste and fraud in the Pentagon for going on 25 years. Most recently she is the co-author of “Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War.” The book argues that an incredible and unmonitored expansion in the use of contract firms [...]
Documentary film makers should work together documentarist Danny Schechter told an audience of about 175 persons at an alternative media summit in Santa Cruz. I plucked that from a summary of the proceedings written by New England media entrepreneur Bill Densmore who notes that:
“Documentary producer and author Kristina Borjesson suggested establishing a ’standards and practices cookbook’ that could be followed by progressive [...]
MiniMediaGuy gets egg on face — again!
With such pride and fanfare I announced on Dec 10 that I had severed my land connection to broadband in favor of the Verizon EV-DO service that dials into some sort of cellular broadband service. I was excited because I paid only the sales tax on four $170 modems [...]
Part Four: Dreams or delusions trump drifting or despair
(Editor’s note: This is the final of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. If you’ve only just stumbled upon this installment part one appeared on Christmas Day. It tells how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper only to lose my nerve and open a typesetting [...]
Part Three: My Big Fat Greek wedding.
(Editor’s note: This is the third of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. If you’ve just stumbled upon this posting, part one appeared on Christmas Day. It tells how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper only to lose my nerve and open a typesetting shop [...]
Part Two: Meet Rama Bhagwan.
(Editor’s note: This is the second of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. Yesterday I explained how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper, only to realize my that I knew next to nothing about my adopted community. I ended that chapter with the decision to [...]
Part One: Plans go awry.
(Editor’s note: This posting originally appeared in November 2006. I rerun it here with only spellling fixes and minor changes. I hope you emjoy this true parable of folly. Merry Christmas!)
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 [...]
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