“The first time it happened was in 2002. A friend saw a picture of former University of South Florida professor and alleged terrorism supporter Sami Al-Arian and did a double take because he thought it was me. He thought the resemblance was funny. I didn’t.” Bob Andelman, left, writes in […]
Interns are one of the best parts about GoNOMAD. We meet so many great young women from UMass who end up working with us as interns. We have had Sarah and Emily this spring they will be done in May. Emily is traveling to Mexico to do a story about […]
Karen Breslau, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Newsweek, spoke with Journalism Jobs about blogs and newsweeklies today. JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world? Karen Breslau: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger […]
Bernie is the Town Manager of Deerfield, and I popped into his office today when I was at Town Hall to pay my tax bill. He had some blockbuster news, among the many things he told me: ATKINS is coming to South Deerfield! This is major, major, we have always […]
During our long drive back from northern Vermont, we chose to ‘shun pike,’ or take the small roads that wind along the rivers, farm fields, and little towns. We stopped at Royalston, where there was a large town square, and a row of little shops and cafes. What a picture […]
Last night we drove up to Barre Vermont for a very special night–it was the 50th anniversary dinner, long planned, of Maurice and Kitty Bigras. I thought I was going to speak, be called upon to read one of my famous speeches…but that moment never came. I wrote some notes, […]
We went to the Advocate’s Preview Massachusetts party, me all dolled up in a tie and Cindy in a very cute black dress. Her hair was curled and I had on a khaki suit I hadn’t worn in years. Remarkably, it fit me well, and the color was right for […]
Telecoms, like AT&T and Verizon, want to create a two-tiered Internet where customers and content providers can be charged for premium content delivery at higher speeds and quality than other content. The harshest critics believe that ability will give ISPs the ability to block, slow, or degrade content unfavorable to […]
Next month a new movie by Bruce Geisler about Michael Metalica premiers. I remember attending a rock concert in 1975 at their Gill commune, at the time I was a student at Northfield Mount Hermon. It was a true commune, at their peak 350 residents called it their home. In […]
When I was young, I was a serious lad. I used walk up to my dad and tell him fun facts. That’s what he used to call them, ‘fun to know and tell,’ we’d say. I just got this month’s Wired. Full of such treats. There is a new Finnish […]
It’s Fox News Channel’s 10th anniversary this October. But the cable network doesn’t want a diamond bauble to commemorate the occasion. It wants cold, hard cash — and plenty of it. Today’s Wall Street Journal had the story. Fox News executives well remember their early days, when the channel got […]
Today’s NY Times included this story about how airlines are figuring out ways to fit more bodies into their planes. “One of the first to use the thinner seats in coach was American Airlines, which refitted its economy-class section seven years ago. “Those seats were indeed thinner than the ones […]