communication. community. cognition.
[audio:http://occamsrazr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/o143.mp3|titles=Speed Saves] A gunman fired several rounds in a University of Texas library today. (I don't think I have to recount the very sensitive issue with you... the rest of the media is … [Continue reading]
[audio:http://occamsrazr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/o142.mp3|titles=Mute] A friend of mine just shuttered his blog. He's a fantastic writer, even if he weren't my friend. He didn't publish every day, but every day he published was … [Continue reading]
[audio:http://occamsrazr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/o141.mp3|titles=What Makes the Good Stuff "Good"?] Quality is a hard thing to wrangle. (Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was an attempt to figure it out.) We know it … [Continue reading]
The boxes are blurring and the silos are stirring. Welcome to a Brave New World of journalism. [audio:http://occamsrazr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/o140.mp3|titles=Mystery Journalism Theater 3000] I've maintained that while newspapers are in … [Continue reading]
In a crisis, what you see is what you get. [audio:http://occamsrazr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/o138.mp3|titles=The Zombie's Brain] No, I am not making a trite statement about "it is what it is," or about transparency. What you see is what … [Continue reading]
(No audio today... this exercise doesn't lend itself to it.) Show me, don't tell me. Nothing new about that. What is new is the thinking about the effectiveness of showing instead of telling. We've fallen all over ourselves as communicators, … [Continue reading]