Category: Media

I swear, it took every ounce of strength I had to keep from running to the nearest souvenir stand, buying a giant fluffy Tweety tie, and beating that guy to death with it. Rob Rybarczyk at St. Louis Today.

I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag You got me on the rag, rag Take your insults about the queen And shove them up your royal Timese machine.   Joan Baez may not have liked Time, but the magazine’s move to open past archives for direct, and free, access has certainly made me a friend. First picks: Einstein […]

Quite an interesting give and take between Dan Gillmor and David Lazarus on newspaper survival, weblogs, and the usual. I wrote several comments in Dan’s post, most of which I won’t repeat here. One that’s incidental to the discussion between Gillmor and Lazarus I will repeat and that has to do with covering the local news. Dan doesn’t think […]

  I wrote in comments to Dan Gillmor’s post yesterday that David Lazurus sounded frustrated and perhaps even frightened, and then today I read from Tim O’Reilly that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble. This follows on from ValleyWag, which has stated that the long-term publication, InfoWorld, is closing it’s doors: news I’ve been expecting ever since […]

I watched my first movie last night through Netflix’s “Watch Now” feature. I learned via Gizmodo that this feature is available for everyone, just by clicking a link in the accounts page. This is an effective way to roll this feature out, until it’s available for all accounts automatically in June: if you know what it is, […]