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May’s 8
Cool Thing – The AV Club’s Undercover series. Bands choose a song to cover from a list compiled by AV Club editors. Once a song is covered, it can’t be covered again for the series. I especially like Ted Leo’s entry. Be warned, there’s an auto-playing ad when you click over. Even Cooler – This [...]
About That Last Post
Just over a week later and my April 19th post is extremely out of date. Gizmodo editor Jason Chen is facing criminal charges for purchasing stolen property. Paying for access is one (very troubling and ethically murky) thing for a journalist to do, but knowingly purchasing stolen property is another.
Ethics In Journalism And Stolen Phones
I really like the story of the new iPhone, not because I like iPhones (though I do) but because it’s a great study in journalistic ethics. I am not a tech writer or a pundit, and I don’t want to be. Forgive me if I gloss over tech issues; I like thinking about ethics and [...]
Everyone Can Publish!
This is a post about paying for text online. This is just one, kind of fantastical, idea. In general, I like free content the way it is now. I just want better UIs. Now…let’s start with this video: Yes, the tablet looks amazing, but I’m more excited about the fact that Time Inc. made this [...]
About Walter Cronkite
I wasn’t alive for any of Cronkite’s evening broadcasts, but I did study him a lot in school. I think that makes me unqualified to say much about him. I love Cronkite’s work, and I’ll leave more meaningful remembrances to more competent writers. They’re going on now about how there will never be another Cronkite. [...]
Podcasts You Should Listen To
I listen to a lot of podcasts and I don’t post here very often, so I think I’ll make this a regular thing. Every so often, I’ll post a link to a podcast I like. The inspiration for this is The Sound Of Young America. It’s an interview-heavy public radio show. The latest episode is [...]
More On Criticism
In high school, the prospect of being a professional critic convinced me to give up my guidance counselor-approved goal of becoming an engineer, math teacher or something along those lines. When I got to college I decided I’d rather work in hard news, but I always liked analyzing media. In my senior year I started [...]
Thinking Of Choice
Some interesting media about choices and decision-making, with some discussion of how the thought of something makes a person like it more or less… Audio – Radiolab Video – Malcolm Gladwell Print – Jonah Lehrer
Seven Stories You Need To Be Reading
While most magazines are turning into mail-order fluff surrounded by ads, Esquire reminds us they weren’t always that way. They’ve posted their seven best stories online. Each piece is an excellent example of nonfiction writing and available unabridged for free at the link above. They’re so good you’ll never read this site again.
Books Electric
In its consistent excellence, the Onion A.V. Club has a post about websites that have become books. I’ve never bought a book that was first published entirely online, but I can understand why other people would. A whole shelf of my bookcase is populated only with collections of work that was serialized. About half of [...]