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Tag Archives: Media
Now Reading: Eric Church, Bill Murray’s career, Netflix vs. HBO, Michael Sam, amazing photos, Roger Angell
A selection of stories I read around the Web today … What did you read? Eric Church profile I stumbled across the profile linked above through this shorter post from Patrick Doyle in Rolling Stone on Eric Church, and both … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Murray, blogging, blogs, content, digital media, Eric Church, films, HBO, Internet, marketing, Media, Michael Sam, mobile, movies, music, Netflix, New York Times, news, NFL, Now Reading, online media, photography, photos, Reading, Roger Angell, Rolling Stone, Sports, television, The New Yorker, TV, Web
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Vanished, part II: The end for the Arnett airmen
For part 1 of my “Vanished” review, click here. *** In the last “Vanished” post, the remarkable World War II book by Wil S. Hylton, I wrote that two things in particular would gnaw at me until they were resolved: … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, book recommendations, book reviews, Books, content, history, Media, Nonfiction, Reading, Vanished, war, Wil S. Hylton, World War II, writing, WWII
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A new book review style and Vanished, part 1
We’re gonna try something a little different: When books are the content type of choice on this blog, I’m no longer going to wait until I finish the book to write about it. Instead, I’ll post blogs while I’m reading … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, book recommendations, book reviews, Books, content, digital media, history, Media, Nonfiction, Vanished, Wil S. Hylton, World War II, WWII
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The archive of the Internet
Apropos of nothing, over the weekend I was thinking about the mere hours a significant amount of content is relevant on the Internet. It probably was spurred by the deluge of stuff around the Super Bowl and how something posted … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, Business, content, digital journalism, digital media, Ezra Klein, Internet, journalism, Media, New Media, New York Magazine, online media, Reading, social media, Vox Media, Web, writing
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Now Reading: The digital media bubble, American Hustle’s flaws, Brian Stelter’s rise, prayers
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged American Hustle, blogging, blogs, Brian Stelter, Business, CNN, content, digital media, films, Internet, Media, mobile, movie reviews, movies, Now Reading, online journalism, online media, Reading, Slate, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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Chuck Culpepper will go anywhere for anything, damn it, and good for him
I could be totally wrong about this, but it feels like digital media is just beginning to figure out that it’s, in the vast majority of cases, supposed to be something altogether different than media in the predominantly printed-page time. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, Chuck Culpepper, content, digital journalism, digital media, Internet, Jeff Pearlman, journalism, Media, online media, social, social media, Web, writers, writing
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Lone Survivor and the task of reviewing war films
Few benefits exist for the month-late moviegoer, but one is the ability to consume reactions to a film before the film itself if you choose. This was my experience with Lone Survivor, Peter Berg’s film about Operation Red Wings and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, content, culture, films, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Media, military, movie reviews, movies, Peter Berg, pop culture, war, war films
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Is technology really driving us apart?
It’s become almost a cliché barb the anti-smartphone, anti-social media contingent keeps close anytime they see another person in another “social” situation staring at screen: Technology is making us a less social society at best and driving us completely apart … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, digital media, Media, mobile, Reading, social, sociology, Tech, technology, writting
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Now Reading: Inc, business, whiskey, American Hustle
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged American Hustle, blogging, blogs, Business, content, digital media, ideas, Inc, innovation, Media, movie reviews, movies, Now Reading, Reading, Tech, Tech Crunch, The New Yorker, whiskey, writing
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Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” and popular Gladwell bashing
Sadly, the more Malcolm Gladwell writes, it seems, the less the general conversation about Malcolm Gladwell concerns his writing. Instead, critical pieces pile up, and it’s become popular almost to tear at his work so harshly that, in many cases, … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, book reviews, Books, criticism, Malcolm Gladwell, Media, Publishing, Reading, writers, writing
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