Today’s column by Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray is so good I’m going to quote most of the article below (especially since any link will be useless after today). Once again, Hollywood is anti-technology, especially when technology allows home users more choice: Martha Coolidge, president of the guild, is outraged by a variety of… Continue reading

Pope Death-Watchers: Today’s New York Times has a funny piece on the haplessness of media pundits who have basically been waiting for John Paul II to die or retire…for the past ten years. Well, they’re at it again, now that the pontiff is flying back to his native Poland for a visit: For at least… Continue reading

Just dropped off two one-inch master reels of a video feature at a downtown Boston media center to have them converted to DV for re-mastering. When I placed the reels on the desk in the reception area, the manager smiled and said, “I don’t see these much anymore.” And when I emailed my old editor… Continue reading

Mickey Kaus draws attention to the Los Angeles Times’ recent piece on the real plagiarism at the heart of Dorothy Kearns Goodwin’s work: Either nobody reads the Los Angeles Times, or it’s summer and nobody reads anything, or people are sick of the Doris Kearns Goodwin plagiarism story—but for some reason attention hasn’t been paid… Continue reading

The always captivating Camille Paglia in an email interview conducted by Andrew Sullivan for his web site: “Whatever its financial problems, Salon will go down in history as one of the most influential publications of our time. Its tone, style, and format have been massively imitated by web sites across the political spectrum. I’m very… Continue reading