Dave Winer talks with News.com today about early blogs, his move to Harvard for a fellowship there (only 10 blogs at Harvard? that can’t include the student body, can it?), and how blogging is supplanting some of the roles traditionally performed by mainstream journalists. It’s a worthwhile read, of course, since Dave is one of […]
Culture Clash: subversively brilliant
As I mentioned yesterday, my wife and I, and a friend, Colleen, trekked to San Jose Saturday to catch the comedy troupe Culture Clash. I hadn’t caught them in about eight years — when I interviewed them for the cover of the Sacramento Bee’s Ticket section — and so I was heartened to see how […]
Odds & ends: iDay, Lessig and more
I’ve missed quite a lot of action in the past week or so, given the near-death experience of my PC 11 days ago. (We’re a joint PC-Mac household, so things weren’t as dire as it might have been.) Behind on a lot of stuff, so I’ll post some quick items here: iDay 2003 I attended […]
Q&A with PBS’ Online NewsHour
Longtime readers of this blog may recall that I’ve done a couple of Q&As with the Media Watch unit of PBS’ Online NewsHour on the subject of online journalism, back in 1999 and 2001. (I’ve archived them on my site.) A producer there approached me a month ago to do a reality check on the […]
Cool search tricks
Want some tips to improve your online search? Here are 12 expert techniques on how to use advanced Google search operators.