Book: Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive
Can’t wait to read Dan Gilmore’s most recent work. A quick review via Boing Boing: Mediactive is divided into three sections. The first section is a history of the dismal state of current media—partisan and bickering, financially troubled, insufficiently critical of power and overly sensitive to Internet upstarts. Gillmor explains how reporters can (and sometimes ...
Inside Wacky World Of Boing Boing
Fast Company has a wonderful, and detailed article on one of my favorite blogs, Boing Boing. Back in 1999, Mark Frauenfelder wrote an article about new web tools that made it easier to do something called “blogging.” His editors at the technology magazine The Industry Standard declined to publish it, concluding that blogging didn’t really ...
Koppel Calls Out Olbermann & O’Reilly
Jon Stewart tried to explain Rachel Maddow last night, he is sick of the state of political discourse in our nation. Say what you will about Stewart (I am a huge fan) he is still a comedian commenting from the outside. Ted Koppel of course is not. Well today the 47 year news veteran wrote ...
Backlash After GOP Uses “Hick” Label
When you are putting together a political ad for voters in West Virginia and you do a casting call, it might not be a good idea to say you are need actors that look like “hicks.” Also helpful if you film the spot in the state you are going to run the ad, and not ...
