The 80s are calling… or maybe the end is near
What do a last minute invitation to a 70s/80s-themed party and the doomsday predictions for 2012 have in common?
Listening to cockpit conversations
Meet The Aviatrix. She flies, she blogs, and she has inadvertently done away with an old notion involving bad news and journalism.
Political Jibjab alert
The JibJab brothers are at it again, joining the political season with a new animated parody. And I had to find out about it nowhere other than the “old” media. Good old CNN, keeping me cool.
iPhone nightmare
Today was definitely not a good day to be facing an iPhone crisis. iPhone enthusiasts lined up in stores around the world to be among the first ones to lay hands on the device’s new 3g version. An then, there I find myself with a dead iPhone of in my hands.
Amy’s Newspaper Challenge
My friend Amy Webb is angry at the newspaper industry and its seemingly contstant slashing of jobs and resources. She is now countering the wave of “tanking industry” stories with a challenge of her own. Being a child of TV, I do not yearn for the feel of paper in my hands as I know many people do. Frankly, I’d rather be browsing non-linearly than struggling with an unruly stack of newsprint. However, I do see the value that the newspaper culture can still offer to journalism.
Take Note: your blog may go mainstream
The massive quality of the mainstream media (on-line or off-line) is still a deciding factor in the public arena, possibly even more so all media could be made into digital stucco. Attention is the hot commodity.
Thinking like Ann Coulter?
This is how I found myself suddenly thinking like Ann Coulter. Well, not along the same line of thinking… more like using a similar thought process. So I thougt of making a dramatic statement and announced to my closest circle of friends that I was considering voting for John McCain in the general election. Only later I realized with amusement that I was not the only one vowing to manifest my outrage by crossing the party line.
