Last night on Nantucket I decided to head out of town. So I parked my bike and took a shuttle bus out to Madaket. Madaket doesn’t have much to it, a big boatyard, some fine homes, and a gorgeous harbor. But it does have the Westender, the bar where the […]

PJ O’Rourke stands out as one of the most articulate writers on the scene. Here is an interview with him from PR Week, about reporting and the public view of reporters. O’Rourke: If you would have told me 30 years ago that journalism could get worse, I would have called […]

This from USA Today “For instance, the technology could have a profound impact on garbage. Never again would you have to sort recyclables from other garbage. Just throw it all together. At a garbage facility, trucks could dump their loads on a conveyor belt that goes past an RFID reader, […]

Lawrence, Kansas is a liberal town, with a leg up on the internet enabled home news experience. The publishers of the local paper there were clever, they own the company that puts in the cable tv and high speed internet wires. So they have an 80% cable coverage, and have […]

Tina Brown used to edit Joe Klein’s stories when she was at Vanity Fair, and recently columned in the Washington Post about his new anti-Hillary tome. She knows him, and thus is qualified to judge what’s behind this book, full of weird and wacky assertions about the former first couple. […]

Some things you are going to hear more about…and you heard about them here first. Reporting from the Dolphin Hotel, Nantucket. Europe is all abuzz about the Polish Plumber. A publicity campaign featuring a hunky Polish Plumber is a jab at comments in France expressing fears that plumbers and other […]

Entering the new realm of nerdhood, with my dual monitor desk action. 

A chickadee with a leg band.  CNN Today in a Reuter’s story about the calls of Chickadees…and what they mean “If you ever go out and are hearing a chickadee making a really long string of “D” notes on a call — six or eight or even 10 — you […]