Rough day in the markets today. We saw it coming last night (we’ve seen it coming). Choose your loser. But it ended on a high note, right? The champion U.S. Olympics Women’s Soccer Team was on hand to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. So there were a few winners on [...]
Sorry, sorry. I haven’t had a chance to update here lately, and now Jeremy Rue’s comment on my Twitter/blog redundancy is coming into stark relief. Any suggestions for a solution? I guess I could just post more here.
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 [...]
The Hitch is right; San Francisco hasn’t got it. Not anymore. From Vanity Fair (the emphasis is my own): It isn’t possible to quantify the extent to which society and culture are indebted to Bohemia. In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape [...]
The federal minimum wage will be increased for the first time in more than a decade this July. On July 24, the wage for people covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act will be a whopping $5.85 per hour. Better late than never, I guess. Will it make a difference? Especially with the cost of [...]
There are several interesting stories coming out of the crane accident in New York City. One was Susan Dominus’s portrait of the typical scene at Fubar, which occupied the ground floor of the destroyed townhouse on East 50th. Although the occupations of the regulars comes as a surprise (advertising, television cameraman, programmer) and doesn’t exactly [...]
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but friend and colleague Michael Zhao has posted his multimedia project on electronic waste in China online in documentary form. He starts in California, where trashed computers are dismantled and, occasionally, recycled. More often they’re sent over to China, where men, women, and children pick [...]
Matt Krupnick published an article about the fallout from the dean search at Berkeley’s journalism school in the Contra Costa Times yesterday (“UC Berkeley mum on why dean hire bailed out”). I think it’s worth a read, if only for the summing up that hasn’t appeared anywhere else–and he did a good job considering few [...]
In my last post, I mentioned that the spill isn’t just oil, but bunker fuel. What’s bunker fuel? It’s the stuff that runs big engines, like in an oil tanker or cargo ship. And it’s cheap, which is why these high volume users use it. Last year, I interviewed Dave Culp, an engineer who designs [...]
“Crunch!”? Really? A huge cargo ship bumps into the Bay Bridge and spills 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel–not just oil, but bunker fuel–and this is the Chronicle’s headline? Is it supposed to be a joke? When I looked at my copy this morning, I originally thought this was a feature recapping some little disaster that I [...]
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 [...]
Too many people would have been too unhappy with me if they’d heard about this after the fact. So: tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23. Jeopardy!. Check your local listings.
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