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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Media, Politics, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
Some of the big websites are going black today to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, that has been winding its way through Congress. We’re going to handle things in our own way — by illuminating the matter with a little intelligent media. Backed by the Motion Picture Association of America, SOPA is designed [...]
≡ Category: Art, Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
Eve Arnold, one of the pioneering women of photojournalism, died Wednesday at the age of 99. Widely known for her photographs of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, Arnold just as often photographed the poor and the unknown. “I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary,” she told the BBC in 1990. “I see them [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Media, Television | ≅ 5 Comments
One last Steve Jobs’ remembrance seems completely fitting for our site. You’re probably familiar with Apple’s famous “Think Different” advertising campaign from the late 1990s, and particularly the legendary TV commercial that featured 17 iconic figures: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon, Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted [...]
≡ Category: Art, Media, Technology | ≅ 2 Comments
One drawing by The New Yorker cartoonists says it all. Brilliantly done. You can find the original cover here, and watch how the cartoonists go about their work here. And then from across the very big pond, we have Australian cartoonist Peter Nicholson offering another creative take on Mr. Jobs’ meeting with St. Peter. Find original here, [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books, Media | ≅ 6 Comments
We all know where books come from: a human and a muse meet, fall in love, and two months to twenty years later, a book is born. Then, as with other varieties of babies, the sleepless nights start as a writer searches for a home for the book, collecting rejections like badges of honor, testaments [...]
≡ Category: History, Life, Media | ≅ 7 Comments
The first day was all smoke, debris, organized mayhem, and pure disbelief. The next day, reality hit home. That’s when you walked out in the streets (in my case, Brooklyn), and saw your first missing person sign, one of hundreds you’d see over the coming months in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. The numbers you [...]
≡ Category: History, Media, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
The drama of 9/11 unfolded before the world on TV. Even many New Yorkers, myself included, watched the traumatic events on CNN rather than witnessing them firsthand. During the days that followed, we were bombarded with endless replays — the planes hitting the buildings, the towers aflame and collapsing, the piles of smoking debris left [...]
≡ Category: History, Media, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Head over to SoundCloud, and you’ll find 10 audio files that span three centuries. It’s a fairly random collection, we’ll admit. But two recordings from the 19th century immediately stand out. First we have Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign, reading “The Charge of the Light [...]
≡ Category: Media, Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
Back in 1948, Britain was making another difficult transition, moving from the trauma of World War II to the chill of the Cold War. Hoping to give radio listeners some clarity on contemporary affairs, the BBC began airing an annual series of lectures — the Reith Lectures — that featured leading thinkers of the day. [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
A few days ago, we asked you to send us your favorite non-fiction titles. We’ll be posting your many excellent suggestions soon, and, in the meantime, we thought we should offer something in return — more specifically, yet another list of excellent non-fiction compiled by someone other than ourselves. Kevin Kelly, web-pioneer, co-founder of Wired Magazine, [...]
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