Archive for May, 2009

Extreme Makeover: Dog Edition

Posted 22 May 2009 | By | Categories: Site News | No Comments

An update on Walter’s progress This is Walter as I found him wandering alone in the Oakland hills. The photo on the left was taken just minutes after I managed to coax him on leash. Weight: 13.5 pounds Two weeks later – neutered, eye surgery, haircut, two squares a day and a little love. Weight: [...]

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Your Ultimate Problem With Social Media

Posted 21 May 2009 | By | Categories: Media | No Comments

When is it OK to unfriend the dead?

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Postscript to Rockets-Lakers

Posted 19 May 2009 | By | Categories: Sports | No Comments

As it turned out, the Rockets-Lakers series did not turn out to be the art versus science showdown that I’d been hoping for.  The key game turned out to be Game 2, in which the Lakers – having lost its home court advantage in Game 1 – simply decided to fight.  As Ron Artest demonstrates [...]

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Rethinking The Newspaper: It Can Be Done

Posted 14 May 2009 | By | Categories: Business & The World, Essays, Media, Oakland & The Bay Area | No Comments

A recent Clay Shirky post, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” says that the newspaper as a business model is dead, killed by its reliance on industrial printing technology. The future, he tells us, will be based on experiments in journalistic form and not any particular form of media, new or old. Meanwhile, as I talked [...]

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Meet Walter

Posted 13 May 2009 | By | Categories: _Uncategorized | No Comments

I know everybody loves my musings on media, music, sports and whatever, but this has kind of taken over my spare brain space the last few days… Walter (a temporary name we’ve given him) is looking for a permanent home. He is a 13 pound terrier mix and about one year old. I found him [...]

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This month’s good deed

Posted 08 May 2009 | By | Categories: Site News | No Comments

Sometimes the world demands you stop and help. I found this guy alone by a shade tree in a not-so-remote area of Anthony Chabot Regional Park.  Covered with bugs and filth, I took about 15 minutes to convince him that I could leash him.  I brought him back to the horse stables where he was [...]

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The 15 Albums Meme

Posted 06 May 2009 | By | Categories: Essays, Music - Retro | No Comments

In celebration of my birthday today, I’m republishing this article that I previously posted on Facebook about six weeks ago.  Birthdays are always a good time for summing up, thinking about the past and how it got you where you think you may be going – and as my friends know strong opinions about music [...]

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Rockets-Lakers: A Tipping Point For The NBA?

Posted 03 May 2009 | By | Categories: Sports | No Comments

As a Golden State Warriors fan – and admittedly a fair-weather one – I could not have found the 2008-09 NBA season much duller or depressing. The play of this uninspired, oft-injured squad and its possibly insane coach drove me well away from following the team despite a raft of discount ticket offers. My inner [...]

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