When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called “Big Silver Robot,” it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month.
Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a [...]
All about writing
Five
February 1, 2010
About that resolution
January 6, 2010
Funny thing about writing is that it used to be much easier.
Somewhere around 1991, I became one of those kids who didn’t have their textbook with them in class, but always had a spiral-bound notebook with all sorts of strange numbers and notations on the covers, and nothing but my guts spilled inside, in free [...]
Items that recently have caught my attention
December 15, 2009
Reading
The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009
Published at Foreign Policy on December 14, 2009.
Global warming, international relations, Iraq, Chechnya, and more — but not the headlines you were expecting. An important year-end list from Foreign Policy magazine, spotted via kottke.org.
From a naval alliance that could shift the military balance of power on two continents [...]
Innovation is messy
July 16, 2008
Michele McLellan has been doing some liveblogging of the Knight Digital Media Center’s Leadership Conference this week.
Check out her notes from Krisztina Holly’s talk about innovation. Holly mentioned seven myths about innovation; I’m going to flip the proverbial script and turn them into Seven Reasons Innovation is Messy:
Focusing your vision on the core problem means [...]
Standalones
July 8, 2008
Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation:
“The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.”
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Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom:
“The Internet is my platform. Not [...]