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Unlocked Locks
Oct 20th
Electronic publishing, in all of its varied forms, has freed us from the tyranny of packaging. How much longer can the remaining tyrants hold on to their traditions?
Unlocked Locks
A Tangled Past
Keisa Sharpe and I have been professionally woven since 1996. We were part of the startup ABC affiliate in Birmingham, and worked together for nearly eight years. I left for the Red Cross, and three years later she joined me in the regional office, where we served five states with communications counsel. When those field offices were in danger of being wiped out in layoffs, I tipped Keisa off to a position with Alabama Power, and landed another one there for myself. We’ve been here together for two-and-a-half years, and it’s been a blast working with her. However well we got along, Keisa always kept some parts of her life very close.
Early in 2009, there was a problem, and I didn’t know about it for a long time. I just knew she was missing work. It was much later that I found out about The Accident. More >
A Blind Love for Video
Jul 23rd
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Sam is a friend of mine from college. He sent me a rant the other day.
I think most news outlets WAAAYYY overvalue their internet video content. For the record: I HATE IT. I never willingly click on a news video. Ever.
I’m looking for information, not some ****-***-slow-to-load or streaming content barfed on me by some D-list talking head du jour. I want to click and read in two seconds, not wait ten or thirty seconds or more for some stupid intro to the actual information (or worse, a 15-30 second ad before the “story”). And I don’t want to disable all of my advertisement/malware blocks to see the stupid video.
Anyway, I’m just bitching because I accidentally clicked through to what I hoped was an article, but was just a stupid ******* video I did not want to wait to load. I’m an old fart, back from when people would actually read things and think through the information, and not just glaze over video content of the quick and easy and meaningless version.
If ever there were a case of the customer being right, this would be it. More >
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