Why are CNN and HuffPo Eating Up Vice Magazine’s Pathetic Reporting on Liberia?

“God is the one who called us to come here,” one woman explains to the interviewer in a recent CNN piece about the ten American Baptists stuck down in a Haitian jail after trying to transport 33 children out of the country. And while the video leaves the impression that certainly the group…

Over the past year, ‘discovery’ (or the ‘art of finding people and articles of interest on the web) has gotten both easier and more difficult. Easier in the sense than there are now many more tools to sort through the so-called ‘noise’. Harder in the sense that the entire free world has…

Chris Paul as Gravity…

What strikes me most when viewing bodies in space is the stark contrast between nothing and something.  The backdrop of any planet or star is an empty void that causes the image in the foreground to pop like a pinata; electrons and protons disperse through the…

Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We’re wrapping up our research for the New Business Models for News Project - indeed, it was Alberto Ibargüen, head of the Knight Foundation…

What a quaint little picture this is. It’s an R-rated movie for the person you were before you were old enough to get in to R-rated movies.

Thanks to the internet, you don’t have to leave your house to be a voyeur. You don’t even have to look out your window. It’s old news that there’s really nothing we normally do in person that can’t now be done on the web, and that includes helping search for the missing in Haiti and mourning…

In case anyone is reading this who is interested in the show Lost and hasn’t seen the first couple of episodes from the new (and final) season, be warned: there are spoilers ahead.

If it’s possible anyone is still interested in a show with ridiculously confusing plot twists, which, come…

Itchy butts are funny, as long as they are happening to someone else, right?The fact is, so called pruritis ani may be an explanation for some childrens’ sleep problems,mysterious red rashes in their nether regions, and could herald an infection of pinworms. (insert shudder here)

1. Mission of Burma (pictured above) are one of the few bands that I can think of who put out some of the best music of the early 80’s, broke up, then came back to (pretty much) pick up where they left off.   They played the other night at Bowery Ballroom with one of my favorite Brooklyn…