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Dith Pran dies, 65

by sdulai on Mar 31, 2008 • No Comments

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65. Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Sydney Schanberg, his former...

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Someone’s trying to tell me something…

by sdulai on Mar 27, 2008 • No Comments

A friend recently sent to me… I wonder if (the jerk 😛 ) is trying to tell me something?

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Portfolio (singles)

by sdulai on Mar 26, 2008 • No Comments

My singles portfolio. Multimedia, stories and graphic work coming soon…

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There are some Happy Journalist out there Auntie Em

by sdulai on Mar 24, 2008 • No Comments

A while back I (along with every other blogger out there?) posted about AngryJournalist. Well, in those early days it seemed like a cool idea, but what I saw in the continuing weeks was very disheartening. I’m not talking about the few fights that broke out from people calling others out on not being more...

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Peep this yo! Happy Easter.

by sdulai on Mar 23, 2008 • No Comments

Normally I’d just throw this in my del.icio.us feed (look in the right column) and call it a day, but I figure it’s Easter… and this pic really makes me laugh. A bounty of mallow rained down on us this Lenten season. The Peeps came not like locusts but like meteors of great ambition and,...

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Time out Tuesday (extra!extra! edition): Looking back on Iraq

by sdulai on Mar 20, 2008 • No Comments

Having lived through half a decade of living with the war in Iraq on the public conscience (for some of us that’s all of high school or college) and upon the cusp of a sixth year… two questions come to mind: 1. What happened to the Afghanistan war? 2. What happened and what can we...

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5years: A number game

by sdulai on Mar 19, 2008 • No Comments

5 years 127 journalists killed (84 by murder and 43 KIA, of which 14 killed by US forces) 400,00 – 600,000 (est.) Iraqi civilians killed. 55,000 Iraqi insurgents killed 548 Contract workers killed 305 Non-Iraqis kidnapped (54 killed, 147 released, 4 escaped, 6 rescued and 94 status unknown.) 164,481 coalition troops deployed (155,000 from the...

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Philip Jones Griffiths, dead

by sdulai on Mar 19, 2008 • No Comments

Philip Jones Griffiths passed away yesterday (or early this morning, details are still sketchy), you might remember him from his work in Vietnam and the subsequent book “Vietnam Inc.” which lead Noam Chomsky to comment on it that: “If anybody in Washington had read that book, we wouldn’t have had these wars in Iraq or...

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Nice pants, oh and MultimediaShooter is back up

by sdulai on Mar 16, 2008 • No Comments

After giving us all a huge scare last week when MultimediaShooter.com was hacked, and according to Richard they messed it up so bad that he wasn’t planning on jumping back on in a hurry. (I know I couldn’t log in to the user panel at all, so it musta been something major.) “RIP… I do...

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MultiMediaShooter down… not if I can help it…

by sdulai on Mar 13, 2008 • No Comments

MultimediaShooter is down… but I’m hoping despite what Richard, the creator of the Web site, says, it won’t stay down for long. RIP I write this with a very heavy heart: I am sorry to report that this website is down for the count. The site was recently hacked severaltimes this weekend and severe damage...

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Strobist thought it was cool…

by sdulai on Mar 12, 2008 • No Comments

Ran into a big hunk of equipment complications today, basically I need a portable power pack, and so in my research I ended up heading over to see what ol’ man David Hobby, aka the Strobist guy, was up to these days. I see he’s posted this video for Canadian rock group “Aquaplane” which was...

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Joe Swan, former SJSU PJ professor dies at 78

by sdulai on Mar 12, 2008 • No Comments

I never had the pleasure of meeting him, be even then, he was part of the San Jose State University family. And a man who helped make the photojournalism program at SJSU what it is and was. I probably would not be a SJSU grad today if he hadn’t been there to continue the work...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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