I finally get Twitter! I believe! I believe!
I was an early adopter of Twitter, signing up for it in the wake of the buzz it created at South by Southwest 2007, but I didn’t write anything for a couple weeks, unsure of what I could use it for or even who would care what I had to say. At the time I...
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Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick
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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Newspaper’s biggest failure and for some reason we continue to ignore it
The biggest failure of the newspaper industry has been failing to change and adapt with its audience. We all say that readership is down and that newspapers are dying (a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters at the Dallas Morning News) and frankly subscribers are dying (old age) and we aren’t getting new...
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Has America lost its mind?
In the span of the last week we’ve had: The taser kid, Andrew Meyer starts asking too many questions and annoyingly disrupts a political forum with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry claims later not to have seen a thing and that it happened in another room. Pretty spine-less senator, the video shows the truth. You...
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Less pin-up, more set-up
I’ve never had cable TV before, but at my new place I’ve been watching it a bit and I’ve noticed there are a lot of advertisements with scantily clad women and commercials of models having their picture taken. My roommate also buys a bunch of tuner magazines and these always have scantily clad women all...
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Vanity and fairness?
I’ve been away for some time, running here and there and everywhere, but I finally got a chance to check out Vanity Fair’s July issues with the 20 different covers with various people in the public eye all posing and strutting for their support of Africa. Hmm…. it’s cool and all, but one thing… how...
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
*Warning! Today’s post deals with some intense social issues and may not be suitable for anyone. If you’re hoping for the usual zany post on SLR today, I’m afraid this one isn’t it. It started out that way, but didn’t end up that way. I have hesitated publishing this for some time, afraid that my...
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Save the earth+ Burning man… something doesn’t add up
Here’s my random thought of the day… Burning man is coming up quick and out of curiosity I thought I’d look into how to get there. I found the usual tour bus stuff, trains to Reno and a couple of posts on Craigslist from folks looking to split the gas, but a few that caught...
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How is news changing? Ask some experts!
I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....
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We’ll always have Paris…oy…if you want to or not
When I got up this morning to run an errand, the radio was talking about Paris Hilton… when I logged on to check my e-mail the top news blurb on Yahoo was of Paris Hilton… When I turned on the noon news on TV, the top news spot was about Paris Hilton. We are a...
