Tag Archives: Media

It is so easy to be carried along in the slipstream of writing, editing, commenting, etc., here that it’s takes special effort to just top and smell the bird of paradise already lodged in your nose. As of about NOW, Blogcritics is an official functioning Google News source, which is …

Wow, it’s old cohorts week around here for me. First, an article turned up about the current whereabouts and activities of possible Missing Link and longtime Cleveland music scenester Johan. Now, the always cool Cool Cleveland has an interview with Alternative Press (a publication for which I have written in …

I like Michael Kinsley quite a bit even though I have evolved away from agreeing with him most of the time, to agreeing with him on the low end of some of the time. He has some judicious if retroactively self-serving thoughts on the demise of Crossfire, his former TV …

I am sad to report the end of Cynthia Webb’s excellent tech and Internet column, Filter, for Washington Post.com. She said farewell on Friday: The tech sector has come along way since this column began two-and-a-half years ago. In 2002, pink slips were more common than initial public offerings, venture …

Just the other day I was musing on my ’90s experiences in the Cleveland music scene: DJing clubs and on the radio, writing two books and for various local and national publications, compiling a greatest hits collection for Cleveland. And since Cleveland really isn’t all that big a town (are …

Michael K. Powell, 41, will step down in March as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission after almost four years as the government’s top media and telecommunications regulator, he announced today. Poor Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell, was in over his head as major domo of the FCC. …

Confirming the obvious, an analysis conducted by the the research firms responsible for the $10 million Election Day exit poll system (sponsored by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and the Associated Press) verified they were the most inaccurate of any of the last five presidential elections, highlighted by “procedural problems …

Computer security experts mi2g say Al Jazeera “is running its computer network like a ‘match-box’ organisation in comparison to its Western peer group”: Al-Jazeera, the at times controversial Arab news satellite channel, has had its computer network compromised by Trojans with built-in mail relay engines since the Arab weekend began …

New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh has struck a nerve – again – this time with an article published yesterday about changes in American intelligence oversight and bureaucracy, and covert activity in various countries including Iran: Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran …

No, it’s not a new band, but a list of the top 10 most viewed stories in the NY Times this year. Besides content, other variables likely involved include availability (most news stories are only available for free for one week) and date of publication (older stories have more time …