by The Wordyeti | May 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
This story sounds way too familiar to me – it was almost exactly 20 years ago that I went to Caracas, Venezuela, to become a wire editor, and later managing editor of the Caracas Daily Journal. I arrived just in time to witness Venezuela’s economy...
by The Wordyeti | May 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
MMORPG Skills May Get You Hired … If only there’d been a story like this back in the early 80s, during the Great Arcade Gold Rush, I would’ve had a much better storyline to use to defend myself to my skeptical parents, questioning why I kept wasting...
by The Wordyeti | May 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
Saw this little bit over at Buzzmachine – Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian, an outfit that I have quite a lot of respect for, was opining on the changing media landscape. Yeah, I know, anyone even remotely connected to the media is spending a lot of time...
by The Wordyeti | May 23, 2007 | journalism
The Future is Here: Russia and Estonia are living up to the fantasies of hack sci-fi authors and computer security salesmen. They are engaging in a virtual war. The reasons for this war are pretty thin – most political insiders in Moscow dismiss...
by The Wordyeti | May 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Perched in isolation Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. …or if I like this photo better this way, where because of their smaller size in the frame, they look more like a couple of birds perched on teh back of the bench, watching the traffic pass by. This...