Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired and publishes a blog called The Long Tail. Today he posted a grim list for Mainstream Media, showing all of the indices that are down and the ones that are up. Down: Box Office: down by 7% this year (tickets per capita have […]
Newsvine is a new way to look at the news, being developed for rollout early next year. The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that the company will be offering a news site with feeds from the AP, ESPN and other sources and users will be able to rate the importance of […]
Today is a lovely day. A day to rake leaves, or walk in the woods. Or play poker with my pals. I’ve opted for the latter, so today I will join Donny, Dave C, cousin Steve, and Eddy V over at Steves for some good old fashioned seven card stud. […]
Charles Cooper of CNET writes about blogs and newspapers and the clash of the two. “During a panel discussion on Internet versus traditional media that I attended this week in Santa Clara, tech columnist John Markoff of The New York Times and tech columnist Kara Swisher of The Wall Street […]
You know those books you keep trying to finish, that languish on your bedside? One of mine is Paul Theroux’ “The Pillars of Hercules,” about a journey around the Mediterranean. His observations of people are keen, below is a section about what he saw in Sardinia. “It was a marketplace […]
The most depressing thing, writes Tina Brown in the Wash Post, about the spat between Times reporter Judith Miller and her colleague/nemesis Maureen Dowd was the tired old debate it kicked off about who’s the bigger vamp, Mo or Judy? “According to Dowd in a lethal column that put her […]
When I was making a fire I used Sunday’s NY Times holiday films section. I read a story about the new 50 cent movie called ‘Get Rick or Die Tryin’. He and the director, a famously short Irishman, were filming in New York on location. A bunch of Fifty Cent’s […]
The new skywalk at the Hualapai Indian Reservation, sticking 70′ out and 4000 feet above the Grand Canyon.
Francisco Cosme got good news yesterday. My future son-in-law has proven himself at Yankee Candle Company, where he got a temporary job several months ago. He’s going to massage school now, weeknights and Saturdays, so he has to report to work at four am to make up hours. Every morning […]
When it comes to multitasking, it’s hard to beat the woman who can rob a bank and never interrupt her cell phone conversation. Today’s Washington Post reported on a woman who robbed banks while on the phone. “In an act of either incredible cool or something much more sinister, a […]
They are two icons, almost cartoon characters, who have been doing the same thing for 35 years. They are Billy F. Gibbons and Dusty Hill, whose trademark foot-long beards and sunglasses make them instantly recognizable as Texas’ famous rockers ZZ Top. The pair were interviewed by Alan Light in today’s […]
I had an interesting exchange with a local newspaper editor about blogs today. I answered his email out loud, NO NO, I said, newspaper reporters are NOT the ones who should write blogs. “Blogs are something else. Some are erudite and accurate. So many are narcissistic drivel. I think our […]