Sordid Details of the Rich and Special I caught this story on the bus this morning. Apparently there was a huge trove of documents detailing the workings of around 120,000 off shore shell companies and trust accounts detailing over 30 years of activity that were dumped recently. The folks at the ICIJ – the International [...]
I both love public media and company-wide email discussions. Today I was abusing company-wide emailing authority to send out the latest PBS OffBook video on 3D Printing. As a snarky aside, I mentioned that people should watch the video because their tax dollars paid for it. A developer quickly responded with a link to the [...]
02.28.13 | media, technology | bradley
Know why I love being an American? I can simultaneously worry about Orson Scott Card’s homophobia impacting a two-issue run of Superman and get excited about the movie version of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
You might be shocked, shocked!, to find that I’m not really a fan of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. So, I took a measure of joy when his book Killing Lincoln was banned from sale in Ford’s Theatre due to “lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.” I took even more pleasure when [...]
O. Henry was the pen name used by musician, cartographer, writer and embezzler William Sydney Porter. Dead for more than a century, O. Henry’s reputation still lives thanks largely to one short story – The Gift of the Magi. Like so many of my generation, and I assume the two or so before, I was [...]
A common gripe amongst creatives, especially in the wake of Battleship The Movie, is that the Entertainment Industrial Complex is afraid of engaging with new intellectual properties. While that is likely true, the video below does a fantastic job of tracing the history of the Flintstones franchise as it drifted into and out of favor, [...]
If you’re nerd enough, you know the true test of any new social media solution – can you play D&D with it? And nerds can be pretty quick in picking up on whether a medium supports the needs of the game. Some folks in publishing don’t seem to be as quick on this. Case [...]
05.24.12 | media, technology, writing | bradley
I like Futurebook.net, I really do. They tend to write on point commentary about, as the name might suggest, the future of books. But since Waterstones agreed to start selling Kindles, the folks at Futurebook seem to have embraced the old guard tactic of hating Amazon. This obviously bears repeating: hating Amazon is not a [...]
05.22.12 | media, technology | bradley
I fell hard for Mass Effect. Sure, the gameplay might have been monotonous at times, but the story was epic. I mean epic in the classical literary sense of the word and the story played in a way that really focused on the strengths of video games. That is to say, in game decisions had [...]
05.22.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Couple of stories have bubbled across my desk today both with a common thread that I personally disdain. The first, a story that seemed to break in Mother Jones last night, is that the famed TED lecture series was holding back a video on what could, but shouldn’t, be a controversial topic – the impact [...]
05.17.12 | Intellectual Property, media, technology | bradley
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