Posted in Learning Disabilities, People, Politics on Mar 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Dan Malloy, Connecticut Governor, Opens Up About Dyslexia Troubles “I have to tell you, I’ll be right up front about it: I’m the governor of the state of Connecticut and I can’t write anything well,” Malloy told the rapt students. “This is who we are. I can’t write things. I’m embarrassed all the time about [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics, Travel, Video on Feb 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Now, if American CEOs did this, members of Congress did this, President Obama did this, we might be able to stomach asking working people for so many concessions to make things right. The least American CEOs could do is what Steve Jobs at Apple does: take $1 in salary and get the rest in stock [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Process, Travel on Feb 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Support Grows for Tiered Risk System at Airports As a frequent traveler I support this but oh boy, I can see the problems with it already. 1. Profiling will no doubt get a few people into the risky pool who shouldn’t be there. Getting “promoted” out of that pool will be a tough fight. 2. [...]
Posted in Opinion, Places, Politics, Social Software on Feb 6th, 2011 4 Comments »
Wallflowers at the Revolution The social networking hype eventually had to subside for a simple reason: The Egyptian government pulled the plug on its four main Internet providers and yet the revolution only got stronger. “Let’s get a reality check here,” said Jim Clancy, a CNN International anchor, who broke through the bloviation on Jan. [...]
Posted in Politics, Reading on Jan 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
New Edition Of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Will Eliminate Offensive Words This is terrible. While I don’t use or support the use of the word “nigger” it’s an important part of the history of the United States and the setting for Mark Twain’s book was early enough so that the word in question was in common use. [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Politics, Video on Dec 2nd, 2010 3 Comments »
The President’s Photographer Full Program PBS has the full video of the National Geographic special online now. Or, you can order the DVD from Amazon: The President’s Photographer: 50 Years Inside the Oval Office.
Posted in Politics on Nov 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Scrutiny Takes Toll on For-Profit College Company The undercover videos showed Kaplan recruiters in Florida and California making false or questionable statements to prospective students — suggesting for example, that massage therapists earn $100 an hour, and that student loans need not be paid back. This is a fascinating piece and it’s about time these [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, People, Politics, Tech Stuff on Oct 15th, 2010 No Comments »
The AK-47: ‘The Gun’ That Changed The Battlefield Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews C.J. Chivers, author of a new book The Gun about the story of the Kalashnikov rifle, one of the most widely used rifles on earth. I’m not into guns but this is a fascinating interview and the history of this gun is [...]
Posted in Creativity, People, Places, Politics, Reading on Oct 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh Last night on the PBS NewsHour Jeffrey Brown did a piece on City of Asylum/Pittsburgh which offers writers from countries where they’re not free to write a safe haven to think and write. Residencies for Writers-in-Exile For two years we provide a furnished house, [...]
Posted in iPhone, Opinion, People, Politics, Video on Sep 28th, 2010 No Comments »
A fun promotional video for PBS NewsHour’s new PBS NewsHour iPhone app. Fun to see the usual suspects sporting iPhones. Not sure if Jim actually uses his. I installed it but haven’t used it much yet. Hope to though.
Posted in Ideas, People, Politics, Video on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
No Blaring: MacNeil on Emmy, Keeping a Reasonable Tone in Broadcast News I’ve been watching the PBS NewsHour for most of my adult life and the folks who put this show together are like family to me. The producers of the show have done a first rate job of slowly moving the show onto the [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Politics on Mar 18th, 2010 1 Comment »
How A Few Made Millions Betting Against The Market Terry Gross interviews Michael Lewis on his new book: The Big Short which documents how some people realized what was happening to the US economy and made money betting against markets. This interview is one of the clearest discussions of the US financial meltdown since NPR [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Opinion, Politics on Feb 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
Why are you so terribly disappointing? I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn’t have this or that expected feature, how it can’t do live video chat, doesn’t have Flash, the bezel [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photography, Politics on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I’m a photographer not a terrorist Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer. Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country [...]
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Ideas, iPhone, Politics on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Slowpoke: The Terminatrix Jen Sorensen is a genius, no doubt about it. Note: If you’re not familiar with The Terminator this will make little sense. If you are I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s genius. iPhone = Skynet Palin = Terminator Obama = John Connor Jen Sorensen = Genius
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music, NPR, People, Politics on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Salman Ahmad on Onpoint Salman Ahmad is a bonafide rock star in Pakistan, across South Asia and in émigré communities around the world. As a Pakistani Muslim boy, he caught Led Zeppelin fever in America, came home with a dream of fusion rock-and-roll and world peace — and now argues with mullahs over whether Islam [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Places, Politics, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
TED India: Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue “soft” power Great talk, beautifully delivered.
Posted in Ideas, People, Politics, Video on Dec 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
TED Talk: Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise – how and when Fantastic talk on the economic rise of Asia. This is really worth watching.
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Dec 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Samen’s incredible black and white images of rural Afghanistan in distress.
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Nov 30th, 2009 5 Comments »
Portraits of Power A nice New Yorker collection of 50 portraits of world leaders with audio commentary by New Yorker photographer Platon.
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