Science and Technology or Special Interest?

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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Is Google looking for favors from the Obama administration? The Los Angeles Times reports that Google is poised to push its corporate agenda which includes expanding high speed Internet access and what is known as network neutrality, so that companies can’t charge clients for faster delivery of their website content. That sounds reasonable – benefits [...]

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New White House Website

Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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As everyone knows by now, the new White House website went live at the exact same moment that Barack Obama became President. There’s plenty of new media there to communicate with constituents, but a bit lacking on the interactive side. Sure we can send an email, but we all know where that ends up. We [...]

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Don’t Blink

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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I tell students and clients sometimes that if you wait a week (sometimes less), the world will have changed again.  That’s the world of new media and that’s what I find working with new media so interesting. Having worked in TV Journalism in the 80’s & 90’s, I thought that was fast.  I had to make [...]

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The New Media President?

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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On this day, commemorating Martin Luther King, we are thinking about tomorrow, when our 44th President, Barak Obama will be inaugurated – a momentous day on many levels  in what is mandated change, the likes of which literally several generations today have never seen.  For example, my children did not experience the civil rights movement, the Vietnam [...]

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Sully, a pilot’s pilot

Posted on 17. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger has 227,730 fans on his facebook profile only two days after safely landing the Airbus 320 in the Hudson River. Bet he never thought any of this would happen. But who better to land that heavy iron so very gracefully on the water than Sully, the glider pilot. Our hats are [...]

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Happy Ending

Posted on 17. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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My first post here has absolutely nothing to do with new media exactly. But it DOES have to do with a great story. You see, having been a journalist for over 20 years, I truly enjoy the story of the Hudson Miracle. It is not only the extraordinary angles of a catastrophe averted by the [...]

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