Tag Archives: Media

Buffalo News: You said WHAT?

By alex | Published: 7/3/2006
The Buffalo News is running an article that gets at how voices carry online. It looks at accidental posts to list-serves and blog entries–basically the myriad of ways in which your presumed private message can get broadcast around the web. It left out Numa Numa and Star Wars Kid, but I think these fall into […]
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Independence Day

By alex | Published: 7/2/2006
Just in time for independence day, a reminder of what makes us Americans (wmv): Chris Matthews:…There is another side to this argument. Let me ask you: Do you believe that people who fight us as terrorists deserve Geneva Convention treatment? Lt. Cmdr. Charles Smith: It’s not whether they deserve it or not, it’s how we […]
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What am I gonnna to do next?

By alex | Published: 6/25/2006
You know what would be really cool. A sort of “choose your own adventure” for students, a simulation that gave them the opportunity to realistically get in touch with the risks and rewards of the extremely wide range of opportunities out there. Something that let you play out the possibilities, and get a feel for […]
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Online media and the future of journalism

By alex | Published: 6/23/2006
Went last night to a talk at the New York Public Library celebrating Slate’s 10th Birthday, featuring Michael Kinsley, Malcolm Gladwell, Arianna Huffington, Jacob Weisberg, and Norm Pearlstine. Given the topic, “online media and the future of journalism,” it was one of those blogged-to-death deals. I’m slow to the punch, my friend Trebor Scholz wrote […]
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