The Return to Avid XpressMy company recently inherited two 3-year-old Avid Xpress workstations, and over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been re-aquainting myself with them. Primarily they are set up to work from old BetaSP tapes and DVCam tapes from ABC as well as other media companies (we’re supposed to be getting footage from… Continue reading

I wasn’t planning on seeing Doubt. But to my surprise, Amy Welborn liked it. Ben Witherington liked it even more.

Finding an Edge Part TwoI wrote in the first part about the challenges facing the publishing industry in the current economic recession, one that is likely to cause longer lasting problems for writers than previous downturns. (Speaking of which, Pat Holt has a good post on one editor’s response to her earlier blogging about the… Continue reading

Father Richard John Neuhaus, for whose magazine I’ve had the privilege to write, has passed away. His illness was sudden, brought on by cancer. As Joseph Bottum, FT editor wrote in an email to his friends today: He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by… Continue reading

Memo to Richard DawkinsYou might want to try this for your next ad-campaign. Guaranteed to resonate with a significant percentage of the population.