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Cheap art
In the 1980s I worked as a theater critic. I spent a lot of time in expensive Broadway theaters and ambitious nonprofit repertory companies. But some of my most memorable experiences were at street...
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Mutating books, evolving authors
The Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy and sobering piece this week about how the rise of the e-book is altering the landscape of the publishing industry. It was not, on the surface, a happy picture for...
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Chris Gulker, 1951-2010
I know some of you have been following, as I have, the posts by Web pioneer Chris Gulker about his illness over the past couple years. Over the summer, Chris told us that there was nothing more to be...
View ArticleRecent work: NY Times’ 9-year-old terror error; local news ethics; Wikipedia
Sometimes your labor on a bunch of projects comes to fruition all at once. Here are some links to recently published stuff: Corrections in the Web Age: The Case of the New York Times’ Terror Error —...
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My next chapter: Grist
After a wonderful couple of years writing Say Everything and another great couple of years building and launching MediaBugs, I’m returning to the world of editing: Starting today, I’m the executive...
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Mr. Daisey and the Fact Factory: my take at Grist
We interrupt this long blog-silence (more on which soon) to note that if you wanna know my take on the Mike Daisey/Apple/This American Life thing, I’ve just posted over at Grist on it. My career...
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Missed stories: About that Horace Mann School article in the Times
I attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, N.Y., from 1971 to 1977. I’ve generally thought well of the school as a great environment for a brainy, socially awkward kid like me to learn and grow. I...
View Article‘How to Be Yourself’: My Ignite talk about authenticity
Ignite talks are an exquisite form of self-torture for which you voluntarily stand in front of a crowd and give a five-minute talk timed to twenty slides that advance, inexorably, every 15 seconds. At...
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And … we’re back
A brief note here to acknowledge that this site has been mostly dormant for a couple years there while I worked a full-time-and-more job. My time at Grist was happy indeed — but splitting my life...
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Dear publishers: When you want to switch platforms and “redesign” too? Don’t
In my work at Grist, I had a rare experience: We moved an entire publishing operation — with a decade of legacy content, in tens of thousands of posts — from one software platform to another. And yet,...
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