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 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Went to the LAFCPUG (i.e. the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User’s Group) meeting on Thursday – I’m not sure what I was expecting – maybe a bunch of pasty-white film editors sitting around and talking about the best way to cut a montage so as to...
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 | Apr 17, 2006 | journalism
This story is kinda like those stories that your family saves until you’re 18. You know the ones … where they finally tell you where Weird Old Uncle Harold went for 5-to-10 years, and for what. The columnist who wrote this, Michael Malone, has a sig...