by The Wordyeti | May 28, 2006 | journalism
"Red renders obsolescene obsolete."Continuing on with what was clearly the star of the LAFCPUG show (what a jaw-breaking acronym, but then, these are video guys, not writers) – everyone in the audience clearly sat up and attached their drool cups in...
by The Wordyeti | May 15, 2006 | journalism
Kicking around the web, I found this alarming notice, that Verizon (amongst others) is starting to use the blogosphere to manipulate public opinion, and to "astroturf." Basically, in a really despicable move, Verizon started faxing a local mayor, vaguely...
by The Wordyeti | May 12, 2006 | journalism
From Doc Searls:The future of local newspapers is local bloggers. Simple as that. Call them "stringers" if you like. But if you’re going to build a bridge from the past to the future of journalism, you’ll need bloggers to help build it.When I...
by The Wordyeti | May 10, 2006 | journalism
About a year ago, I started work on an (overly) ambitious project about the Point Reyes Light newspaper and its legendary publisher, Dave Mitchell. This was really the beginning of this foray into online multimedia reporting that continues to this day; although...
by The Wordyeti | May 1, 2006 | journalism
Just got back from the huge immigration march that blocked off Wilshire Blvd. I managed to take some pictures that turned out, although I was using my bunk digital point-n-shoot rather than the slick 20D. I did shoot a couple of rolls of film (it was a protest...