Lunar Eclipse 2010
There are a lot of photos floating around cyberspace of the rare total lunar eclipse + winter solstice combo on Tuesday morning. I’m partial to mine. I’m neither amateur nor…
Gawker Media hacked; passwords leaked, then analyzed
Gawker Media hacked; 188, 279 passwords revealed, then analyzed by the Wall Street Journal. “Monkey” is in the top 10? Makes me feel positively brilliant with my password choices across…
A Facebook story: gimmick or necessary?
The Washington Post published a human interest story yesterday about a mother, the birth of her baby, and her family and friend’s reactions as she became ill. Told primarily through…
The nature of identity
One of my favorite television shows is the recently cancelled “Dollhouse.” An examination of the nature of identity and the existence of the human soul, set in a not-so-fictional real-world…
A Journalist’s Easter Question: what comes after resurrection?
Journalism Is Not Dead! On the first day of grad school, our professors repeated what they’d told us during orientation: journalism is a craft, not an absolute. It has structure,…
Lost in Translation: The Line Between Journalism and Espionage
NY Times article: “Contracts Tied To Efforts to Kill Militants” Let me get this straight. So the “benign gov’t info-gathering program” was a website known as Afpak, proposed by a…
Rubbing Salt in the Wound: NYC Assemblyman Proposes Ban on Salt in Restaurants
With rising public interest and awareness in the relationship between food and health, city officials across the country have jumped aboard the grassroots bandwagons with enthusiasm, proposing and then passing…
On Social Media and News-Sharing Online
John Tierney wrote this column over at the Times today, in their Happiness section: “Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome.” Seeing as how I make a daily habit…
Heather J. Chin media 