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Amazing things happening on the Brooklyn Bridge today

2011-10-01T17:48:11-04:00

The #OccupyWallSt protests have mobilized and stopped traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge on this Saturday (looks like only one side is blocked). Now I'm hearing on Twitter that five white police buses are heading that way. Tremendous stuff! People are uploading livestreaming video even as they are being arrested. A really big moment for citizen media/journalism as well! Take a look, if the heavy traffic isn't clogging the livestream! Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

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Hey, I'm the 4th-listed "Fresh Face" at Empire Avenue!

2011-06-23T15:57:31-04:00

Just started playing this social media stock exchange game yesterday, but based on the existing strength of my social media network, I guess I got listed highly right away. My share price is hovering around $32 today, so not such a sharp rise, but still decent. I love all the data they give you on the site, all the different aggregations and compilations. Here's a screenshot: {EAV_BLOG_VER:1cdd47f3e1a1fb1d}

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R.I.P. Geraldine Ferraro, a feminist pioneer

2011-03-26T18:09:13-04:00

1984. I was in college. The '70s feminist movement was more than a memory. It was present tense, active, on campus and off. For a time, I was a president of the Student Feminist Alliance. I was an appointed student representative on the University Commission on the Status of Women. I attended and shot (as a photojournalist) sporting events that would not have been allowed to exist, would not have been funded, if it weren't for Title IX. (Even so, the women's basketball team wasn't allowed to play in the best fieldhouse on campus, except for big tournament games. Not...

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Happy Birthday, Stephen Hawking!

2011-01-08T22:59:07-05:00

And look! The whole Errol Morris film on A Brief History of Time is up on Google Video! (I loved that movie... just hearing the opening bars of the incredible Philip Glass score sets me off). You know, this is probably awful, but you know what I miss? The newer computer voices have more inflection than that early computer voice that I just always associated with Stephen Hawking. Even with other voices to choose from, I always picked the one that sounded like Stephen Hawking, just so I could pretend that I had the famous physicist talking to me inside...

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Perhap the most important editorial I've read this year

2010-08-29T01:09:06-04:00

Op-Ed Columnist - Bob Herbert - Glenn Beck in Washington - NYTimes.com. Thank you, Bob Herbert! Also, a belated thank you to Alexander Zaitchik, whose book on Glenn Beck came out this year, Common Nonsense. It's a great read, with terrific research, but I am biased, as I helped him out on one particular chapter. Which is why I know how much time he put into digging up and documenting all kinds of previously unknown things about Beck's life. I have my own academic obsession going back to the 1990s. I worked on papers analyzing the polemical rhetoric of the...

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Chuck Roberts leaves CNN's Headline News (or HLN, or CNN2, or whatever you want to call it)

2010-07-31T15:37:00-04:00

Link: Chuck Roberts Departing HLN - mediabistro.com: TVNewser. Knew there was a reason I held on to this silly blurry snapshot I grabbed from Election Night, 2004, with the incomparable, witty and razor-sharp Chuck Roberts holding down the anchor chair as the results flew in fast and furious after 7P ET. More blurry snapshots of a wild night covering the 2004 national election at the CNN Center in Atlanta after the jump. My Messy Workstation. Yeah, they still gave ordinary writers with cell phones and live Internet connections access to the real-time exit poll data that year! Put a stop...

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Washington Post Obituary for Mike Gauldin

2010-07-28T22:23:15-04:00

It took a while, but the national press (AP and Washington Post, at least) have noted Mike Gauldin's passing. Since the link may go missing some time in the future due to the uncertain nature of newspapers online and off, I want to save the WashPo obituary here: Link: Doris E. Gola, Michael G. Gauldin, William L. Siskos, Ora Belle Tamm. Michael G. Gauldin, Clinton Press Secretary Michael G. Gauldin, 55, a press secretary for then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton who came to Washington to work in public affairs after Clinton was inaugurated as president in 1993, died July 22 of...

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Mike Gauldin, 1954-2010. R.I.P.

2010-07-25T11:58:47-04:00

A great man passed away last Thursday, taken too young by brain cancer, and I am just so sad. So when you're sad, best watch a funny video of the same talented fellow, doing his most hilarious and locally-famous bits for the Northwest Arkansas Gridion Show, as Brother Billy Bob. Seldom has a parody been as rich. Keep in mind, this was taped probably in the late 80s, contemporary with scandals with Rev. Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Sort of overshadows the fact that he also went to Washington, D.C. with that other guy from Arkansas, Governor...

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Dan Gillmor gives much-needed perspective on the journ-opoly's real market failures

2010-06-16T00:27:00-04:00

Link: Dan Gillmor: Journalism monopoly was also a market failure - Advertising - Salon.com. Dan lays it down tough, but he says some things that really needed saying, that needed amplifying. I'm still pretty freaked over the general decline of the overall enterprise of public affairs reporting, investigative reporting, civic and civil society reporting and analysis, as these behemoth media monopolies falter like a single-species pine forest hit by the bark beetle. But Dan is at least reminding us, reminding me, of something I knew, suffered with as the status quo, never quite reconciled myself to as the years rolled...

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