Driving back in the bright September sun, I passed a group of dark skinned men playing cricket in North Amherst. One man stood in front of a stake and the other pitched at him as he held his large bat. Amherst was a beehive of human activity, there was an […]
Foud Ajami writes in the Opinion Journal on the deafening silence from Arabs. “The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose […]
New Media Report is usually full of interesting insider stuff about the web, it’s edited by Elizabeth G. Hines. This is from today’s emailed report. “The news: Google has been quietly gathering classified feeds. The question: Is there a Google classified service in the works? Classified Intelligence—a classified ad industry […]
The Chicago Tribune’s Charles M. Madigan has a scheme for any reporter who’s been bought out, phased out, laid off or fired. “My thought is that it’s all the same stuff presented in a collection of different packages. Who better to create the same stuff than the people who have […]
Daryl Lang writes in Photo District News, about Reuters, which recently shot a close up photo of a note written by President Bush asking it he could take a bathroom break. “The news service explains why they put the photo on the wire: “Heads of state seldom attend Security Council […]
Boing Boing.net showed two photos of people waist deep in water, one was a black person the other two whites. In each, a person appears to be dragging a bag or box or two of food or beverages. The images were shot by different photographers, and captioned by different photo […]
A smart woman named Cindy emailed me this story from the International Herald Tribune by Thomas Fuller. “Christopher Clarke, the president of a headhunting company cites studies showing that women are better at performing many things at once, or multitasking, and that they have more sophisticated emotional intelligence, like being […]
Chris Waddle, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellows writes in the Annistonstar.com, delivering more bad news to newspapers. “Modern media advocates from the American Press Institute love to stump newspaper executives by asking if they can identify Craig Newmark. Few can. Too bad. He’s the inventor of craigslist.org, the […]
Christopher Goffard of the St. Petersburg Times did some digging about the most famous CIA employee in the U.S. Outed CIA spy She married and soon divorced her college boyfriend. As a new recruit at the Farm, the CIA’s training facility, her skill with an AK-47 stunned classmates. She […]
Cindy woke me up early today, at 7 am on a Sunday, asking “hey come on, it’s time to check to Google alerts!” We have been waiting anxiously for today, since a few weeks ago when we corresponded with Beth Harpaz, Travel Editor for the Associated Press. She wrote a […]
Today’s mail included a huge packet of forms from our accountant. Being relatively new to the world of paid employees, this daunting assemblage of forms for payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, proof of employment, and federal taxes was a bit intimidating. As I kept signing forms, following the instructions written on […]
John Motavalli commented on Poynter about another Unfunny Al Franken moment. “On his July 12 radio program, the same day British police were saying that 4 suicide bombers may have acted in the previous week’s bombings in London, Al Franken, who it must be said has never verbally supported the […]