David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Testing Twitter Feed Widget
This is the type of thing that often breaks when accessed by a mobile device. Let's take a look at what happens, shall we? This should display all the most recent Tweets that feature the word "iPad." Of course, I plan to test this using an iPad, and yes, once again, I...
Ships that pass in the dusk…
The view from Water Island, as ginormous cruise ships motor past.
Where is the media heading?
First in a series of videos taken during a panel discussion for PR Newswire at the LA Times building. On the panel with me, the delightfully funny and plainspoken Serena Ehrlich, who knows more about how to handle media in the digital age than the last...
Taiwanimation: No Longer Parody, But Actual Useful News Interpretation
A while back, I was asked to give me take on "The Emerging Visual Language of Online Video" as part of Rosental Alves' amazing yearly journalism conference in Austin. I made the room laugh when I showed parody videos like the "SoulWow" and others, created by the...
Print Schadenfreude: TV Up Next to the Chopping Block
A collective snicker/groan radiated out through the interwebs today with the publication of this AdAge piece on how video is like the news business was in 1998, as legions of print journalists who have seen the number and budgets of the news outlets for which they...
From Zell to Eisner as Tribune Chief: Is This Supposed to be an Improvement?
The Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers used to represent the sinewy, beating heart of American journalism. Then they got run into the ground, bought up by Tribune dorks who were more interested in playing out their boyhood "I wanna play right field for the Cubs!"...