former national public radio host fred goodwin is the subject of a great deal of talk these days. earlier this year an episode of his program the infinite mind which was heard on 300 npr stations featured three experts who discussed the controversial link between antidepressants and suicide. all of them plus goodwin declared that worries about the drugs have been overblown.
yet the t...... [Show More]
tryptophanic links Post Source: www.tayarijones.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 02:24:50
turkey day is a slanket day
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for the record i just love my slanket so much that i wore it all weekend. thank you thank you dear rigoberto.
fictionaut asks me five good questions and i provide five kooky answers .
twitter invites you to make a list of the top ten people to follow.
and speaking of toptens latinoauthors.com lists joy castro ...... [Show More]
ap yesterday
everyone seems to want one but apparently a lot of americans arent sure what exactly a bai lout8221 is.
the word which shot to prominence amid the financial meltdown was looked up so often at merriamwe bster821 7s online dictionary site that the publisher says bai lout8221 was an easy choice for its 2008 word of the year.
the rest of the list is n...... [Show More]
just in case anyone accuses me of not alliterating enough.
today approx. 40 years after the rest of the web figured out how to do good discussions generalinterest news site comment threads mostly remain abysmal . on their best days. they are also the biggest thorn in the side of many an editor.
many have enumerated where news site discussions often go the way of...... [Show More]
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last week was the 30th anniversary of the jonestown massacre a mass poisoning of over 900 members of peoples temple. the clip above is from the documentary jonestown the life and death of peoples temple by stanley nelson marcia smith and noland walker. a powerful film a sobering reminder it is available in its entirety at google video . ...... [Show More]
nprs on the media has an interesting story on bloomberg news and how the organization may target regional business stories for newspapers almost like an outside contractor
seth mnookin well right now bloomberg news has more editorial employees than the new york times and the washington post combined which when i found out astounded me because they are not dependent on models...... [Show More]
earlier this morning fox news announced that alan colmes pictured above will leave the networks popular hannity colmes debate program at the end of the year. a apparently after twelve years of spa rring821 7 with conservative counterpart sean hannity colmes is moving on to developanew and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. ...... [Show More]
theres the real world then there is the virtual world. we have combined the two and created a future that holds no boundaries where many pieces of technology are being developed to improve our communication skills. in the beginning of this semester we heavily focused upon the foundation of the internet and computers in general. now we are shifting gears to the future. we are not only embracin...... [Show More]
so i think that kerrys otm podcast is broken. she says hers downloads storybystory. on mine i see what i think is the cover story the interview with michael lewis followed by the full episode.
also brooke wants you to call we havent yet if the spirit moves you as brooke says then let me groove you as marvin gaye says the phone number is mentioned here . t...... [Show More]
less amused Post Source: www.tayarijones.com Posted: Nov 24 2008 04:33:39
hattie mcdaniel black hollywood series
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you may remember a few weeks ago when i was sort of amused by the idea that amazon was recommending that i read mama im in love... with a gangsta since i seem to be a fan of tayari jones. well after listening to on the media this week i am a little less amused and a little more bot...... [Show More]
can nonprofit news models save journalism the advertisin gsupporte d forprofit institutional model of journalism skip this ad is on the wane . except for a few large and successful outlets investment in comprehensive reporting has suffered from a shrinking bottom line even as the hopedfor development of citizen journalism has been generally underwhelming . but some see a sol...... [Show More]
my good friend in toronto parker tagged me in my firstever meme blog chain letter. although ive been busy i couldnt eschew my duty to share five online tools or resources that deserve better exposure. after generous modification of the rules i give you my picks
1. bourque newswatch billed as the canadas matt drudge pierre bourque is connected. if you wa...... [Show More]
books on demand Post Source: open.salon.com Posted: Nov 18 2008 06:11:07
imagine walking up to an atm pushing a few buttons and after a few minutes of mechanical whirring sounds out pops a fresh new paperback book.
the espresso book machine is rather like that. the size of a small car it can print out and bind a book in a few minutes. the first espresso book machine made its debut at the world bank in april 2006 and now there are nine machines actively cranki...... [Show More]
marshall ganz is the person who designed organizational systems for the barack obama campaign. in listening to him on nprs on the media about how they motivated and coached obama volunteers to promote their candidate and recruit other volunteers i was struck by the following passage
what we helped them understand is that the first thing they need to learn is how to articulate their own st...... [Show More]
the legal permissibility of enya. our tax dollars hard at work
this week the supreme court declined to review a case about whether it was legal to play enya under a video montage of a murder victims life. such victim impact statements serve as testimony submitted during the sentencing phase of a criminal trial.
the questions raised included whether or not theavideo sasou. ..... [Show More]
as ive noted before i really love podcasts. and i wanted to update the list of my favorite podcasts that i posted last year. so here goes.
first here are some recent finds none of these are new but theyre new to me1.
the sound of young america 2. tagline a public radio show about things that are awesome. textism has a good overview of this podcast....... [Show More]
hi everybody. brooke is out sick this week but apparently she managed to record all of her interviews before going home to some chicken soup and crappy movies. bob is trying to make up for it by asking us all to imagine him as a stunning brunette. uh sure bob. whatever you say.
in the second episode of otm after the election its nice to see brooke and bob tackling other issues. for i...... [Show More]
enya scotus Post Source: www.fimoculous.com Posted: Nov 16 2008 06:00:00
on the media has a crazy little story about whether playing enya as background music to a video montage of a murder victims life is unduly prejudicial. the u.s. supreme court wont take the case but the california supreme court has issued a judgment that differentiated the music of enya from that of james taylor....... [Show More]
blog wrap up Post Source: www.gnovisjournal.org Posted: Nov 15 2008 15:37:34
on gnovis
a sermon in her familys church frames an ethical and moral
wrestling match in sarah thompsons first hopefully of many blog for gnovis. she
asks
rightshow do we draw a line between what constitutes a
right and what does not while respecting peoples differences .when is culture
itself a right and when does culture stand in the way of...... [Show More]
module 7 to do Post Source: 501rl-fa08.qublogs.com Posted: Nov 14 2008 19:35:58
please complete the following tasks
read rheingold h. 2002. shibuya epiphany pp. 128. smart mobs. new york perseus. pdf
watch neil gershenfeld the beckoning promise of personal fabrication ted. link
listen the persistence of memory link
watch 60 minutes piece on brainmachine interfaces link
optional read gershenfeld n. 2005...... [Show More]
before rove atwater Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 13 2008 22:39:44
there was a statement that caught my attention as i rode through museumplein in the middle of the night recently listening to the latest edition of on the media.a they were talking about the late republican strategist lee atwater who ive always remembered as the guy who trained george hw bush in 88 to stand up straight to look tough in debates and use divisive attack ads to destroy his oppon...... [Show More]
a fascinating report from npron the media from wnycnew york which i found a great introduction to our breakfast this week the next president and the media whos really in charge here on thursday morning httpwem edia.come ventsnext presidentm edia
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november 07 2008
the barack obama campaigns winning web strategy employed the latest...... [Show More]
cavells 2007 paper dreaming awake mass media as ritual examines an aspect of great canadian scholar marshall mcluhans thinking on media and participation and is applicable for looking at the ideas in a recent npr on the media segment .
on the medias brooke gladstone explains how she was at a jazz club with her husband on election night announcing updates from online...... [Show More]
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