The meedja

by | Jun 23, 2005 | Uncategorized

Some­times I’m really, really glad I’m not at Fair­fax any­more. The new COO has given man­age­ment 10 days to come up with ways to cut $50 mil­lion from their budgets. This includes edit­or­ial redundancies. Let me just put this into per­spect­ive for...

Almost there

by | Jun 22, 2005 | Uncategorized

Fin­ished mark­ing essays. Only three stu­dent magazines to go. Sit­ting in front of my one sports vice, Wimble­don, watch­ing one of my cur­rent faves, Marat Safin, drink­ing red wine and eating 70% dark chocol­ate (thanks, Matt!). Mmm,...

Scary, scary, scary

by | Jun 22, 2005 | Uncategorized

It’s not often a stu­dent ter­ri­fies me with the social implic­a­tions of new technologies.  From one of the essays on ‘new digital media seg­ments’ by one of my stu­dents (repos­ted without per­mis­sion, but I’m claim­ing fair use as it’s less than 10%),...