Tag Archives: new media
Take Back Your Fingertips: The Seven Habits of Web-Balanced People
Yesterday’s post on MIT thinker Sherry Turkle’s warnings about the perils of over-connectivity got me to thinking about a fundamental question. How do you limit usage of social media, smart phones, and the Internet generally in ways that enable you … Read more
SOPA, PIPA, and the Day Wikipedia Went Dark
Yesterday, January 18, was a day that history will view as the Fort Sumter moment of the coming wars over intellectual property on the Internet. Or maybe not. As Buddhists like to say, we’ll see. What is certain is that … Read more
Blog of the Week: Dim Bulb
I like bloggers who like to play with big ideas. The new-mediasphere is full of these folks, but one of the most provocative and entertaining in my book is the Advertising Age columnist Jonathan Salem Baskin, whose blog is memorably … Read more
So What’s So Wrong with Branding?
Is there anything more tiresome than an old-media guy bemoaning the new-fangled ways of new media? A friend sent me a recent piece by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten in which he responded to an email query from a young … Read more
Inside the New York Times
For good or ill, the New York Times is one of the world’s most powerful labels. Early In the new documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times, we see media reporter David Carr pay a visit to a hip new-media … Read more
TED THE CAT
Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kaze
Kaze is Washington DC area writing guru Steve Altman. The nickname is Japanese for “the wind.” Read more »
RasoirJ
Ras at Texas BBQ in DC, site of lunchtime chats with Kaze on the art and agony of writing. Ras is also known in some publishing circles as George Clack. Read more »