Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots
Margaret Wente wrote a remarkably ignorant column rhetorically asking, Why are bloggers male? Many others have debunked the premise of her column, which had absolutely no quantitative information in it whatsoever to back it up. But I’m wondering if it was deliberately stupid.
Thu, March 18 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
In the course of searching for Joan Jett’s performance in Urgh! A Music War, I found this outtake of the Cramps peforming Human Fly! Lead singer Lux Interior died last year. See my Feb. 6, 2009 post A ‘twisted Elvis from hell.’
Wed, March 17 2010 » Film, Main Page, Minutiae, multimedia » Comments Off
The Globe and Mail published a decent interview with Floria Sigismondi, director of the forthcoming The Runaways, the legendary teen punk band from Los Angeles. That gives me a good-enough excuse to post this video of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts performing Bad Reputation, a performance captured for the fantastic music doc Urgh! A Music War:
Wed, March 17 2010 » Film, Main Page, Minutiae, multimedia » Comments Off
Jamaica-born Clive Campbell is considered to be the founding father of hip hop, sampling James Brown beats in the rec room of his 1520 Sedgwick Ave. apartment building in the West Bronx almost 40 years ago. Here’s a video I found: Here’s his Wikipedia page.
Wed, March 17 2010 » Main Page, Media, multimedia » Comments Off
Last week, a Montreal conference on the future of independent media heard that online advertising revenue isn’t paying the bills for old-skool companies with legacy costs like, er, wages. Meanwhile, a prominent tech figure has called on old-media companies to go fully digital or go home.
Wed, March 17 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
This is an … interesting take by Dorian Benkoil on how the digital era has improved journalism. I would suggest reading it in full, but I’ll pull out some excerpts below.
Wed, March 17 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Michael Skoler tweeted a link to an AP report called Clearing the Clutter: How a new model for communication can help news providers and advertisers.
Tue, March 16 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Veteran Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor on the new era that has dawned in the news business, where the reaction to every story can be quantified — where we could come to know the metrics of everything, and the value of nothing.
Mon, March 15 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Saw a few tweets fly around about actor Dennis Hopper, who has terminal prostate cancer, and it inspired me to post the following tunes to Twitter:
Sun, March 14 2010 » Film, Main Page, Minutiae, Music Monday et al, multimedia » Comments Off