Media, Politics, Technology, Zombies
In 2007 and 2008, during the emergence of social media, I covered the presidential campaign for the Talk Radio News Service. Tomorrow I depart for a few weeks on the road covering the 2012 campaign. Some of my time - particularly early in the primary process – will be spent creating content independently for the [...]
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I’ll be live, on-location through the primary season. Really looking forward listening to @DocStodden’s Political Explainer podcasts. kopoint: Produced for KoPoint Stories by Doc Stodden Political Director of KoPoint. — — — This inaugural edition of the KoPoint Political Explainer covers everything you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses, including what is actually going on in Iowa [...]
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The following interviews were conducted on Thursday, December 8th at Liz Claiborne’s ‘It’s Time To Talk’ domestic violence awareness radio row. Hosted in conjunction with Talkers Magazine and run by Talk Radio News the annual event is designed to raise awareness about domestic violence and teen dating violence issues by connecting journalists with health and [...]
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Fear is one of the most negative emotions. It can immobilize the best of people … fear is another form of mind static. – Diamond’s Laws Hi there. Over the past few days I’ve contemplated composing a number of ‘what traditional media can learn from the web’-type posts. I left my traditional-media comfort zone not to [...]
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Friends: I have resigned from ABC News and today, Friday, November 18th, will be my final day in the office of ABC News Radio. January 13th, 2012 will be the final day of employment by ABC News. I am humbled by and grateful for my experience at ABC News, and humbled by and grateful to [...]
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A structured conversation on gaming and MMO’s Podcaster Stuart Tracte and web designer Josh Wolff share a unique history: though both only recently met IRL, both have logged thousands of hours – literally hundreds of days – inside World of Warcraft, the world’s most successful MMO. Gaming, historically relegated to social realms populated by computer geeks and creative [...]
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About: This post summarizes (social)media reports from the #OccupyWallStreet protests in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. A real-time summary can be found on Storify. Update; Sept 25th: I spoke with many protesters, police officers, journalists, bloggers, and bystanders. I documented my experience on Twitter and Google+. The quick and dirty takeaway is that the protest as a unit is [...]
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Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world. Warren Ellis writes Spider Jerusalem in Transmetropolitan
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Listen to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Temple. Growing up, some of my best fall memories were of sitting close to a fire, dog-eared paperback close to my chest, reading the stories of horror spun by H.P. Lovecraft. Each fall my old friend Quentin Lewis records an audio reading of his favorite H.P. Lovecraft stories. This year he [...]
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Dan Patterson interviews author and film-maker Greg Pak at the 2011 NYC Comic Con. Dan Patterson interviews author and film-maker Greg Pak at the 2011 NYC Comic Con.
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An informal summary including short thoughts, blog updates, Google+ posts, Tweets, snapshots, and video from the #OccupyWallStreet protests. Updates are posted in reverse-chronological order. “ I’ve created a Google Voice account to help you share your story of #OccupyWallStreet (347) 422-6491 DanPatterson October 7, 2011 Occupy Wall Street’s Effect On A Halal Cart – Josh Sternberg [...]
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