Category Archives: culture
A reminder that it helps to pitch the right outlet
Watching Avatar while sitting next to a Stanford professor had me (and the professor) wondering about the ‘Stanford’ t-shirt that Sigourney Weaver’s avatar wears very prominently in a number of scenes. What was the story was behind the shirt’s appearance … Continue reading
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A Growth Market for Writers: Celebrity GhostTweeter
Well, the NY Times beat me to it. Sort of. I’ve been meaning to write something on the consequences of celebrity tweeting for writers for weeks now. I think there’s a whole new career path here. It’s clear that while … Continue reading
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Geography as journalistic destiny
Since I was writing recently about the Bay Area’s unique creative culture, it’s interesting (to me at least) to note that Ready Made magazine is moving from Berkeley to Des Moines, Iowa. There was a thoughtful dissection of what that … Continue reading
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Why should social networks want to make money?
In a guest column today over at VentureBeat, Amuso co-founder Barak Rabinowitz writes about the failure of social networking websites to turn their phenomenal popularity into phenomenal profits. “There’s an elephant in the room of online advertising,” he suggests. “An … Continue reading
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Finding the time to think
That’s the biggest challenge facing Americans today, writes Andrew Razeghi in a recent and thought-provoking San Francisco Chronicle editorial. American lifestyles — and workstyles — allow for little but specialization at work and few interests, sports, hobbies or pastimes outside … Continue reading
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Joe Wilson hires a professional tweeter
Not so long ago I wrote about ghost tweeting as a growth market for writers. So it was interesting to see that pretty much as soon as US Representative Joe Wilson made a national name for himself by heckling the … Continue reading →
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