Bozo and his Rocket Ship
Inspiration for the five-year-old @https://weblogsky.com. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Media
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What Made Milwaukee Famous
Blast from the past! (My father was a Schlitz distributor when it was el numero uno…)
Aesthetic Bliss, Culture, Media
Little Nemo in GoogleLand
In 1998 I wrote a piece about Winsor McCay’s surreal comic, Little Nemo’s Adventures in Slumberland, for the webzine version
Journalism, Media
How many NeoNazi Black Panthers does it take to screw in an image orthicon tube?
This video by Alexandra Pelosi illustrates the problematic state of news today: media depictions of Sanford, Florida following the Trayvon
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Third Option
At Pecha Kucha Austin last night, spent some time talking to John Kunz of Waterloo Records, an old friend from
Futures, Media
Apple’s convergent television: “I finally cracked it!”
We’ve been hearing for two decades now about television/computer/Internet convergence. Televisions sets today are advanced digital products, and we connect
Cinema, Media
Roger Ebert: “a first-rate second-rate memoirist”
Maureen Dowd writes about Roger Ebert’s memoir, and about the disfiguring surgical failures that have rendered him unable to speak,
Business, Media
Netflix fixes the wrong problem
Word on the street is that Netflix subscribers are fleeing because of recent rate increases; the company hopes to fix
Community, Democracy, Government, Media, Participatory Medicine, Politics, Teaching and Learning
Collaboration, cooperation, democracy
Everybody’s head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they’ve heard over and over again. Against this, we
Journalism, Media, Politics
bin Laden and the horserace
Osama bin Laden’s death is a complex event with many implications and potential repercussions, yet it’s been trivialized by media
Journalism, Media
The Future of Journalism: a conversation
With colleagues Pete Lewis, Tony Deifell, Kevin Anderson, Andrew Haeg, and Scott Rosenberg, I’m in a two week conversation about
Democracy, Futures, Media
Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: “Everything feels more authentic.”
Wikileaks is a big deal; Mark Pesce’s written the most insightful comment I’ve seen yet explaining just why. Read it