by The Wordyeti | May 12, 2006 | journalism
From Doc Searls:The future of local newspapers is local bloggers. Simple as that. Call them "stringers" if you like. But if you’re going to build a bridge from the past to the future of journalism, you’ll need bloggers to help build it.When I...
by The Wordyeti | May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
Wisdom Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. A quintessential Dave Mitchell shot. If you were to cast a movie where all the tried-and-true elements of the whole "Hero With a Thousand Faces" were to be represented by their archetypes, the guy...
by The Wordyeti | May 10, 2006 | journalism
About a year ago, I started work on an (overly) ambitious project about the Point Reyes Light newspaper and its legendary publisher, Dave Mitchell. This was really the beginning of this foray into online multimedia reporting that continues to this day; although...
by The Wordyeti | May 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
I don’t know what it is about this story that makes me laugh, but the news today is that Sony’s Blu-Ray standard for the coalescing vaporware of high-def DVDs is getting picked as a winner because … (drumroll plee-yuz) THE PORNO INDUSTRY HAS PICKED...
by The Wordyeti | May 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
Alex Gonzalez washes cars, sells oranges by the freeway, and last night he pushed his hotdog cart from downtown to La Brea, hoping to make the $500 a month rent on his shitbox apartment in East L.A. Hoping to have enough to send down to Mexico to help out his family....