tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30398632024-03-10T20:38:17.686-07:00Etaoin ShrdluA place to talk about the changing news media landscape.Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.comBlogger961125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-50775458308067108122012-12-21T15:07:00.001-08:002012-12-21T15:07:24.059-08:00The NRA is not stupid ...These thoughts were passed along to me from a friend's spouse. If he posts them himself I'll link. Till then, I thought it important to share this insight now, early in the debate:"The NRA is not stupid. They are trying to re-frame the gun debate and tangle everyone up in an issue that is ridiculous. "Instead of focusing on "How can we prevent assault weapons from falling into the hands of Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-54751545967302773182012-12-07T18:47:00.001-08:002012-12-07T18:47:28.418-08:00Alaska becoming a swing state? Not so fast, Mr. Silver I took mild issue with Nate Silver on Twitter yesterday about his article "Alaska: Future Swing State?" I said it was "proof that Silver is better with numbers than analysis." Ted Cuzillo (@datadoodle) asked what I’d have said if I was his editor and promised him more than 140 characters in reply. Here goes: First, I’m a longtime Nate Silver fan. We were practicingHowardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-873982318291874202012-11-08T09:09:00.001-08:002012-11-08T09:09:16.410-08:00Manifestations of Nate Silver's analytical journalism in the 1980sWith all the Nate Silver inspired debates about analytical journalism going on, I can't resist referring to the work Richard Mauer, Larry Makinson and others did at the Anchorage Daily News in the 1980s-1990s. Using a Macintosh 512 and Fourth Dimension database software, we computerized all state campaign donation records long before the State of Alaska had done so. We kept databases of sources.Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-88228173038846924442012-11-02T12:50:00.001-07:002012-11-02T12:50:26.651-07:00Today we face another crisis too valuable to wasteA veteran political observer I know is fond of quoting the aphorism, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” It means, among other things, that sometimes only crisis can break through governing gridlock and make things happen. In today’s climate that feels truer than ever. I argued after 9-11 that President Bush in that rare moment of global solidarity with the U.S. had a Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-84847994610971805482012-10-17T12:14:00.001-07:002012-10-17T12:14:53.272-07:00Whatever happened to facts?For several years now I've been giving a talk at journalism conferences and classrooms I called "Whatever happened to facts?" I took as my starting point a brilliant headline from The Onion, which said, "One in five Americans now believes Obama is a cactus." Clay Shirky, in characteristically sweeping and insightful style, today weighs in on roughly the same subject with a different (though not Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-21788927354913696372012-07-14T12:12:00.001-07:002012-07-14T12:12:28.538-07:00The "postmodern sublime"This is taken from a blog post I did in July 2008 at Etaoin Shrdlu: Utopian or distopian? At the moment, things feel precisely like the condition social theorist Fredric Jameson described as “the postmodern sublime” – the simultaneous apprehension of dread and ecstasy. Will CareerBuilder’s trustworthiness and value-added features be able to compete with Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-43332506924825843902012-04-18T13:14:00.001-07:002012-04-18T13:14:28.943-07:00Kitchen window, Eagle River, Alaska ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-45601139050622511602012-04-17T08:42:00.001-07:002012-04-17T08:42:31.573-07:00View from breakfast nookat our friends' house, Anchorage. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-87510701223890205742012-04-16T16:46:00.001-07:002012-04-16T16:46:15.526-07:00Skiing into AnchorageFinal approach to #Anchorage took us over a lone skier on the Costal Trail. Still beautiful; plenty of snow. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-26259468094537777052012-04-16T07:23:00.001-07:002012-04-16T07:23:06.987-07:00This just seems wrongSecond LP dump in the alley. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-25304168309326109612012-04-15T13:19:00.001-07:002012-04-15T13:19:45.899-07:00da bomb (Sacramento, 16th St) ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-9644475324412042102012-04-09T15:43:00.001-07:002012-04-09T15:43:37.351-07:00Our namesake: a red-winged blackbird at Redwing RanchPhoto by our pal John Griffing ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-81905617744320310212012-03-29T10:06:00.001-07:002012-03-29T10:06:19.105-07:00If writing "fuck" in a message had been cause for expulsion from my high school, I'd still be in ninth grade. Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-73151405419904808732012-03-20T10:03:00.001-07:002012-03-20T10:03:38.890-07:00Market scene, Intnl Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-7334128910587424262012-03-17T08:06:00.001-07:002012-03-17T08:06:44.666-07:00On the road to AlbuquerqueRoger that. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-39818989289241538522012-03-13T14:34:00.001-07:002012-03-13T14:34:48.527-07:00Tehachapiother worldly. Next: Mojave. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-46356970666912031722012-03-04T09:05:00.001-08:002012-03-04T09:05:57.117-08:00On the campus at Occidental College... for the media reform sessions Saturday I spotted this mysterious packaging alongside a dumpster. One shudders to imagine... ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-53018261842252712112012-02-25T09:54:00.001-08:002012-02-25T09:54:41.447-08:00I burned a lot of olive branches...... but they didn't go without a fight. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-70564472764474816152012-02-24T19:11:00.001-08:002012-02-24T19:11:25.331-08:00Olive branches burn hot & smokyThese were freshly pruned branches but they went up quickly and sent up greasy black smoke. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-79026704097923482332012-02-22T07:48:00.001-08:002012-02-22T07:48:11.695-08:00Betty's excellent day. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-71789065169868611592012-02-21T11:20:00.001-08:002012-02-21T11:20:00.291-08:00I thought this was perfect when I finished it. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-12134487037906666862012-02-15T19:31:00.001-08:002012-02-15T19:31:50.158-08:00Saab didn't design this beauty ...But an individual enthusiast did. What a treat. Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-47952198661600834322012-02-11T09:53:00.001-08:002012-02-11T09:53:54.026-08:00Prayer flags in the gardenLet it rain. ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-69132565736093454012012-01-23T10:55:00.001-08:002012-01-23T10:55:55.888-08:00@davewiner Re your comment about idealists, here's a self-portrait from a few years ago :) Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039863.post-57996863996876473972012-01-15T10:26:00.001-08:002012-01-15T10:26:33.024-08:00Sunday morning ♨ flavors.me/howard Posted via email from edge & flow Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.com0