Life continues to be a bit on the go for me – but in a way, that’s good.
One thing I appreciate about going almost anywhere is seeing what you spot on the way to a destination.
Photographer Grant Haller enjoyed that while he worked in daily journalism. I was reminded of that idea when my wife and I took our son, earlier this month, to the Blue Angels show over Lake Washington in the Seattle area.
Saturday’s heat in the Seattle area already blasted to the top of the record charts.
It’s a shrap contrast to last weekend, when say, overcast skies prompted the Blue Angels to fly a lower-than-usual show over Lake Union for Seafair, the annual summer festival.
So try this one on for size: Costco in South Seattle is selling snow gloves.
In a matter of minutes of online reading, I came across the use of polymath – in three different cases.
Dictionary.com defines the word as ”a person of great learning in several fields of study.”
Interestingly enough, the use was connected to Sidney Harman, the business leader who is buying Newsweek. He also sits on the board of The Aspen Institute, a think tank that focuses on ideas, civic life and education.
As you might have seen, I had an exhilarating and invigorating time blogging for the Wing Luke Museum’s Chinese Heritage Tour of the American West.
If you haven’t read the blog entries, please have a look. The pace was fast – but good- and the investment in time was well worth it. It’s one of those trips in life that you set time aside to take – well, because it’s unclear when you’ll have time to do it again.
The group of 35 people or so returned to the Seattle area early last week. I’ve been resting up and getting caught up on things on the homefront.
I hope everyone is enjoying a great summer. As I’ve noted, I’m still around – freelance work is taking up my time this month.
Which, as we know, is a good thing.
As we know, the Chinese have come up with a robot that can make food in a wok – and IBM has its supercomputer that will challenge humans in Jeopardy!
You’ve seen the two flying cars – Aerocar and the Transition -Â I’ve written about in earlier posts. By the way, if you end up buying a Transition, please let me know.
Or just tell the world via the Web or a Tweet.
And so, in this light, I’ve thought about stretching the day out so there will be more hours than just 24. That way, I can have some extra time to blog at TofuWatch.com.
My son and I were playing baseball in a Seattle field on Tuesday evening. We looked up and saw the cloud formation photographed above.
Yeah, I know clouds might not top the list of things to consider with people’s busy schedules. But you know, they really are interesting – and there’s that whole cloud computing thing, too.
After an adventurous week-long vacation in the Pacific Northwest, I have returned to post entries on the blog.
The vacation was wonderful. I’ll post entries soon.
In the meantime, this needs to be said: Bean curd is still central in my life. I ran errands today and when I returned my wife was kind enough to have this bowl of chicken and tofu soup waiting for me.
I stumbled upon this interview of Chris Anderson of Wired talking about the economics of Free – which is the title of his book – and I thought: I think I’ll pay attention.
We’re all actors in one way or another in the free market. Mainstream journalists, in recent years, have been grappling with the idea of free in the context of money in a full-on way - since, well, economists talk about covering costs and earning profits for business survival.
As we know, low advertising dollars have created a churn in which thousands of people have left the industry. Mind you, this is in the context of people growing more and more used to – and in some way, expecting – free online content.
Word about the possible end of the Fremont High School newspaper in Sunnyvale, Calif. is making the national journalism rounds – thanks to exposure on the Romenesko media site.
I thought I’d chime in because I served for two years as a newspaper staff member at the school back in the mid-1980s. During my last year at Fremont, I was the editor-in-chief of what was then called The Fremont Chief.
Scott Herhold of the San Jose Mercury News lays out his thoughts in a column and talks about a student-led protest on Tuesday that included duct tape and the words, “No newspaper, no voice.” He argues that the students have not produced a sufficiently compelling reason to keep their newspaper, The Phoenix, as part of a school-backed journalism class.
But my verdict – and yes, it is a biased one – is this: Save as many media institutions as you can for students.
Help them excel at thinking, asking questions, analyzing, writing and other forms of expression. Do so in a formal setting under the guidance of a teacher.
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