This little news piece from 1981 is making the rounds. As the reporter notes, “this is only the first step in newspapers by computer”: So many things to love here: the “estimated two to three thousand home computer owners in the Bay Area” the newspaper guy saying “and we’re not in it to make money. [...]
Conversations I’ve had about my work on the Huangbaiyu story almost always include a moment of surprise. In a conversation with a Los Angeles Times technology reporter last winter, for example, I explained the story of the failed attempt to create an eco-village in rural China, and the reporter interrupted me: “Have you ever heard [...]
A forward link landed in my e-mail yesterday. It led me to a 13-second lark trying to portray John McCain as Oswald C. Cobblepot, better known as the Penguin, from Batman. You can see it here: The Penguin is surely one of the more entertaining Batman villains–my favorite, if we’re working from the 1960s television [...]
Here’s my backyard on Thursday morning. The roses are blooming. There’s a nice, warm light here. But what is it about this air that’s so familiar? Take a look at the government’s air forecast map for this weekend: California doesn’t look too good. All those little fire icons are making the air here “moderate,” at [...]
I’ve been throwing ideas around lately to all kinds of people. They haven’t stuck, which is too bad. But one of them was to look at the history of the torch relay after reports that the IOC and Britain may forgo the tradition in the runup to the 2012 games. I kind of knew the [...]
Photojournalist Stuart Isett will be speaking at Berkeley with author Navy Phim next Monday. Isett has been documenting the lives of young Cambodian men who came to the United States as refugee children, did not officially become citizens, and now are being deported. Isett does good work; you can see some of it at his [...]
Wrote this on Tuesday: John Peabody has a nice rundown of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s meeting on the surprise withdrawal of Dianne Lynch as incoming dean. She is, and will remain, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. To recap: Lynch was the favorite candidate among the finalists [...]
So, two days ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in to answer more questions about things like firing federal prosecutors, for hard-to-explain reasons; just what was happening when then-White House Counsel Gonzalez and former Chief of Staff Andrew Card tried to get a bed-ridden and sedated Attorney General Ashcroft to sign [...]
Roughly: Joe Lieberman got his political start in the anti-Vietnam-War movement; and now he is a target of the anti-Iraq-War movement. His loss in the primary prompted him to run for Senate as an independent. As part of his anti-Vietnam-War activites, in 1970 Lieberman (with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham) supported the Reverend Joseph Duffey [...]
After I got back to San Francisco last night, I paged through the New York Times‘s list of most e-mailed articles. It’s one easy way to catch up and sort through the news after being offline and away from the papers. I started reading Frank Bruni when he was in Italy. He’s now the principle [...]
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