by The Wordyeti | Jun 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
Mexico City’s Knife-sharp Smog Layer Originally uploaded by Wordyeti That brown horizontal line is not the earth, although it’s damn near as dense. It is the smog layer over Mexico City, and it started appearing about an hour before the plane landed. As an...
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...
