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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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Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick

by sdulai on Nov 9, 2007 • No Comments

I don’t write about technology often, I know, this coming from the guy that posts about video-hosting websites, new cameras, RAW processing and Microsoft’s table computer thing, but honest I don’t do it often, check! Anywho I was looking at the Natchway speech from the TED awards again, and I saw this other video on...

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What is truth?

by sdulai on Sep 6, 2007 • No Comments

As journalist, our stories go into the paper and inform the public today, but in time it becomes history and if that history is built on lies, then we become a nation of lies. But how do we define truth and when does something become truth? We once believed that using leeches as a medical...

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

5years: A number game

Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick

What is truth?

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

Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt