The Media Drop

If you happen to get the “New Jersey” section of the New York Times, then you should turn to page two, where Debra Galant writes about bloggers from the state of New Jersey, including Jeff Jarvis, Robert Recchia, Lizbeth Finn-Arnold, The Soup Lady, and myself! All as a result of the blog MeetUp that […]

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Hey, it’s International Blog Comment Day as per Spanglemonkey, so get off your non-commenting butts and hit those keys!
[via Debra Galant]

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Philadelphia Mag’s Sasha Issenberg lays out New York Times columnist David Brooks in an article from the April issue of the magazine. Issenberg seems to have fact-checked Brooks to a t, down to seeing what markets are hot for QVC shoppers, where Doris Kearns Goodwin’s books sell the best, and which U.S. cities watch […]

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This morning I read this article by the Ombudsman at the Washington Post. The article is entitled “When Bad Apples Fall, Examine the Tree,” and leans a little bit more heavily upon the publications and the industry “push” rather than the individuals who become “bad apples”.
Now I don’t believe this is to say that […]

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Tonight I was invited by Debra Galant to attend a gathering of local writers and editors (spouses and bloggers were also apparently allowed past the bouncers!) in the Montclair, New Jersey area at a place called Diva Lounge. The group hosting the event is called MEWS (Montclair Editors and Writers), and its creator is […]

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Whenever people ask me how I came up with the notion to blog about the “media”, I always end up stating that “there so much content [read: plenty of targets] to choose from.”
It’s truly because I believe the impact “media” has on the world is simply astouding. And it’s all around us […]

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Think everything’s all happy happy in the rap and hip-hop community? Think again. Most of America is blinded by the cars, jewels, and women that’s seen all up in the videos cruising across their televisions to realize that they’re only seeing a small segment of the culture and music as a whole.
Thanks to […]

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There’s a behind-the-scenes to everything you see, hear, and read - and sometimes it’s just as interesting to see the finished product (a movie, song, or article) as it is to see the gears working behind that finished product as it is to get the result.
About a month or so ago I came across Buzz […]

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Weblogger Sassy Lawyer writes about things she reads in order to put together her blog. While there’s a lot of data out there (it’s only data in a process-map sort of way), read what you find relevant and interesting. Digesting it all isn’t feasible or smart. Ain’t that the truth.
I think she […]

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David Weinberger at Joho makes an interesting point that the Internet is not a medium in the common use of the term.
I don’t think I can add anything more poignant than what he had to say, so definitely read his post.

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