What Type Of Media Would Your Bring To A Desert Island? Steve Yelvington writes at Poynter about a new Online Publishers Association study in which researchers asked, if you could choose only two media, what would they be? The Internet ranked first, television second. I think the Internet is an obvious first choice, since you […]

Sofia’s First Solid Food Sofia tried solid food — oatmeal — for the first time today. Though it seems in the picture to be making her sleepy, she in fact ate with some relish and a skill that belied her lack of experience. When she began pushing the cereal into her mouth with her fingers […]

The End Is Near… The Dark Tower, which is the seventh and last book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, was recently released. I found out when Audible.com sent me an e-mail saying the book was available on MP3 (read by George Guidall, who also read on the previous two DT books, and whose work […]

Children Of The Corn … Maze David loved our trip last Sunday to the Beech Hill Farm corn maze, which was in the shape of New Hampshire and reputedly featured paths laid out to mirror the state’s highway system. He ran up and down the rows, tripped and fell down a good deal and got […]

Now That’s A Move When I was 18 I sold my car for the price of a one-way plane ticket, gave away all the stuff in my little apartment and went to the islands with $250 in my pocket, a backpack, a guitar and a typewriter. Sometimes when I tell that story (and I tell […]

You Are Now Approved! Being in the midst of a big transition – new job in a new state – certain types of spam have taken on a new sort of insidiousness. The “Multiple ways to get home loans” and “You are now Approved” subject lines force themselves into my sphere attention of attention in […]

Landon Lecture by Arthur Sulzberger New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger delivered the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University Monday. It’s good reading. He makes some interesting observations about the state of the news media and political discourse. A few of his points about online news got me thinking, though. He says of bloggers that […]

CyberJournalist.net: Spokesman-Review.com Harnesses Readers For Election Blog Project Great idea … according to Jonathan Dube, “Perhaps what’s most innovative about the Spokesman-Review’s project (Searching For Democracy) is how it found the guest bloggers — by tapping into all those readers who are always e-mailing complaints and suggestions to the paper.”

New Pics Added To Family Album Some new shots of David, Sofia and Kristen to added finish out the Summer 2004 section, including the one above, taken Sept. 6 on David’s second birthday. That he’s a guitar prodigy is beyond question! (Now if we could just get him to stop trying to play it with […]

DenverPost.com Allows You To Run Presidential Campaign Interactive game allows player to run ad spending and presidential appearances from either 14 days or 60 days before the election, trying to win states. (Plays a little like Risk.) Good example of a newspaper site using multimedia well…