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Teaching video techniques at Addis Ababa University
My students wanted to make sure to capture the conversation around the roundtable discussion we had on the subject of press freedom, so they set up the bagttered (but still serviceable) cameras outside the journalism department offices, and brought in all the...
Satellite TV dishes are common on the rooftops of Addis Ababa
Even in the somewhat gritty neighborhoods, the rooftops of Addis Ababa are adorned with satellite TV dishes. There is a great hunger here for high-quality content…
In need of coffee in Ethiopia
Something that will make people of a certain age nostalgic: Pull-Tab soda cans. Some part of me wants to collect all the tabs and weave them together into a glittering metal vest ... If you recall, the hippies used to do this, back when recycling was still this...
Russian Street Portraitists and Afghan War Vets
We're supposed to be at the LA Times Festival of Books today, but we're having to skip that amazing opportunity to mingle with other ink-stained wretches (and the agents who *love* them), and instead finish up on the editing work on our own ... er ... somewhat overdue...
The Great Digital Migration: A Long, Featureless Trudge Into … What, Exactly?
27 Print Dollars for $1 Digital; Social News; Papers in Trouble; Kodak v. Fuji I posted this picture via Twitpic earlier today, and my digital brethren quickly chimed in on how much they felt like this in their daily lives. And I get it. Working in the media industry...
eBooks Pricing and Antitrust: Pricing Collusion or Draining a Fetid Swamp?
Today's news of the antitrust suit filed by the DOJ against Apple and a consortium of large book publishers raises some interesting questions. First, here's what the government alleges (h/t Wall St. Journal) In a civil antitrust lawsuit, the Justice Department alleged...