A fascinating blog post by Clay Shirky on newspapers, journalism, and the internet... "When we shift our attention from ’save newspapers’ to ’save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work."
www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
New Photos
Playing around with a new 80mm f/1.8 prime lens... I find it pretty restrictive not to have a zoom, but it's good to practice! The lovely kitty belongs to my friend Kimeva, as do the hands in the second photo.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Fear Mongering Weasels
This is from a weekly email newsletter I get. I noticed it right away, a lot of other people did too - that the news media seems quite committed to whatever kind of fear mongering they can dig up, especially in the area of this so-called recession. This is why the death of newspapers and cable TV seems less and less alarming. Twitchy news media indeed.
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“Fear is very contagious. You can get fearful in 5 minutes, but you don’t get confident in 5 minutes.” - Warren Buffett on CNBC, Monday, March 9, 2009
CNBC: “We’ve been getting thousands and thousands of emails from our viewers. Warren, we’d like to start with one that echoes a theme we heard again and again. This one comes from Terry in San Antonio, Texas, who asks, ‘Will everything be all right?’”
BUFFETT: “Everything will be all right. We do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created. We started with 4 million people back in 1790 and look where we’ve come. And it wasn’t because we were smarter than other people. It wasn’t because our land was more fertile or we had more minerals or our climate was more favorable. We had a system that worked. It unleashed the human potential. It didn’t work every year. We had 6 ‘panics’ in the 19th century. In the 20th century we had the Great Depression, World Wars, all kinds of things. But we have a system – largely free market, rule of law, equality of opportunity – all of those things that cause the potential of humans to get unleashed. And we’re far from done. Your kids will live better than mine. Your grandchildren will live better than your kids. There’s no question about that. But the machine gets gummed up from time to time. If you take the bulk of those centuries, probably 15 years were bad years. But we go forward.”
Did you notice the quote the twitchy news people of America lifted from Buffett’s very upbeat, 3-hour interview? They filtered out all kinds of affirming, positive statements (such as the one above) to create the headline, “Warren Buffett Says ‘The Economy Fell Off a Cliff.”
Slippery Wall-Streeters triggered this recession but the twitchy news media seems committed to making sure it progresses.
And now for a final thought: Fear is contagious. Don’t spread it. And if you meet any twitchy, fear mongering news weasels, slap them and say, “Stop it. Stop it right now.”
Monday Morning Memo
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“Fear is very contagious. You can get fearful in 5 minutes, but you don’t get confident in 5 minutes.” - Warren Buffett on CNBC, Monday, March 9, 2009
CNBC: “We’ve been getting thousands and thousands of emails from our viewers. Warren, we’d like to start with one that echoes a theme we heard again and again. This one comes from Terry in San Antonio, Texas, who asks, ‘Will everything be all right?’”
BUFFETT: “Everything will be all right. We do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created. We started with 4 million people back in 1790 and look where we’ve come. And it wasn’t because we were smarter than other people. It wasn’t because our land was more fertile or we had more minerals or our climate was more favorable. We had a system that worked. It unleashed the human potential. It didn’t work every year. We had 6 ‘panics’ in the 19th century. In the 20th century we had the Great Depression, World Wars, all kinds of things. But we have a system – largely free market, rule of law, equality of opportunity – all of those things that cause the potential of humans to get unleashed. And we’re far from done. Your kids will live better than mine. Your grandchildren will live better than your kids. There’s no question about that. But the machine gets gummed up from time to time. If you take the bulk of those centuries, probably 15 years were bad years. But we go forward.”
Did you notice the quote the twitchy news people of America lifted from Buffett’s very upbeat, 3-hour interview? They filtered out all kinds of affirming, positive statements (such as the one above) to create the headline, “Warren Buffett Says ‘The Economy Fell Off a Cliff.”
Slippery Wall-Streeters triggered this recession but the twitchy news media seems committed to making sure it progresses.
And now for a final thought: Fear is contagious. Don’t spread it. And if you meet any twitchy, fear mongering news weasels, slap them and say, “Stop it. Stop it right now.”
Monday Morning Memo
Sunday, March 1, 2009
You Don't Have to be Pretty
I thought this was well worth posting a link to.
www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html
www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Coraline
On February 6th, Coraline will open in theaters. Can't wait to see this movie... I've read the book, written by Neil Gaiman. The book is OK but it's thin enough that it looks like they've fleshed it out into a spectacular movie. And directed by Henry Selick of the Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach... what really made me a Neil Gaiman fan are his picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls, both illustrated by Dave McKean. The original printing of the Goldfish book (not the Scholastic version but the independent press version) is now a collector's item.
Watch the Trailer - Coraline
Friday, January 23, 2009
Jan. 4, 2009 - Saskatoon Bridges
Taken January 4th, 2009, on a Sunday morning. Because it was so cold, it created a lot of fog off the open river. Photos are of the Victoria and Broadway Bridges in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Watch This Movie
If you have an opinion on whether the big car companies should be bailed out of their current crisis, this movie might change your mind. An example of corporate idiocy and stagnation at the highest levels.
Read the Director's Comments • Reviews at RottenTomatoes.com
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