Make that TWO blogs.

One is for my work life, specifically involving media and journalism. It's called Illuminated Media, and the medievalist shtick should give away my sympathies:

illuminated-media.org/

The other is for my creative work -- and the creative work of the folks I know. That means you (Mosbaugh!). You can put your fairy tales, fables, yarns, myths, ghost stories and other good things here on The Fablist if you want, just let me know. It is an open creative... read more

One of the biggest points I was hoping to make at the Media Giraffe Conference media-giraffe.org/conference/ is that the Internet is as fully vulnerable to the negative effects of commercialization as "traditional" mass media has been.

Rupert Murdoch's prescient acquisition of MySpace.com was my primary example.

How ironically gratifying to come back to SF and discover that Wired mag's featured article this month is on exactly that topic.

"His Space"
Wired, July 2006
http... read more

I'm totally committed to artsandmedia.net/ , a nonprofit project I helped found with several friends and colleagues.

We started IAM because all other nonprofit attempts at culture reform (the leftist media movement and the media-law reform movement, for example) are ultimately SECONDARY. They achieve superficial short-term goals, but do not address deeper issues related to our capital-driven media and culture sectors.

Our goal at Independent Arts & Media is to create NEW struct... read more

My second ever frickin' blog entry. We watched this boss flik last nite, "The Kingdom of Heaven." Ridley Scott directed. Takes an episode from the Second Crusade and makes a movie out of it. Good movie, with characters and events based on real folks. Legolas (Orlando Bloom) plays Balian, a young knightly type who tries to do the right thing.

The George Bush character is Guy de Luisignon, who wants to do some war mongering, and succeeds at least in this.

But his war is a total catastro... read more

A very long and very difficult week is over -- barring, of course, obligatory crossed wires and raised voices with friends and loved ones. But even that just par for the course this week, a hell of a slog that is now largely over. Two all-nighters, multiple software failures, the challenges of productive interpersonal interaction. Oh yeah. And now I am sipping a Baileys on ice as I type this. All week long I am using the damn computer. I can social-network in a bar or at a concert, or do crea... read more