Unlike in Alaska’s North Slope where it can get so cold it can freeze a caribou in its tracks.
Watching Movies on a Cell Phone Sucks
Just ask David Lynch (NSFW language):
Bend’s Pregnant “Man” Has Second Baby
Personally, I’d be happy if I never hear about these folks again. Just the same, here’s the story.
Useless Study Of The Day
I love it when bunches of money are spent to figure out the obvious: Staying up watching late-night TV causes you to lose sleep.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
Links For The Day
Long day at the office, but still have some good links to share.
- Six free PSD/(X)HTML Templates that are very nice.
- If I die, I want to make sure I have a final blog post written beforehand (thanks Barn for this).
- Northwestern University is getting Comp. Sci and Jcomm majors to play nice with each other (this is course work I would’ve loved to have been a part of).
- How many balloons would it take to lift a house (like in Up)? At the very least, 9.4 million.
- Somebody needs to port this Mac “virus” to the PC. (be sure to watch it in action).
- Mofuse has allowed me to create mobile/iPhone versions for both this site and Bend Blogs. Not a huge fan of outsourcing it, but since I can brand it with my URL, it’ll enable me to keep the URL should the service die. Now I just need to setup either .htaccess redirect or some PHP detection code. Will work on that…uh…sometime.
Real Life Twitter
I’ve already shared my feelings for twitter on multiple occasions. I think it’s ridiculous how people will have no problem sharing stupidly inane thoughts on there with the entire world that they will never share with the world at large. To illustrate my point:
Oregon Media Insiders Is Done
Oregon Media Insiders will cease to operate (at least under Lynn) as of tomorrow.
I lost a friend today over this site–a good friend, one of my best friends. Losing friends was always a risk of doing this site, and in a way I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. I don’t think I can get this friend back; I’ve been told not to respond to the email, though I’m going to try anyway.
I’ve never liked running uncivil websites, ever. In fact, I’ve never run one, other than OMI. I’ve never had a website quite like it. The problem with OMI has always been that the more I censored, the more open to lawsuits I was. And I have no legal defense team, no corporate owner with big pockets to rescue me. There’s only me. I know this is a concept that’s really weird-sounding to some of you, but I’m telling you, that’s the way the legal precedents stand now.
Moving to accounts-only posting has helped a great deal with the nasty drive-by posting. But I can’t do this any more. A broken heart can do what a purple-faced news director or corporate lawyer cannot.
So I have to stop doing this. End of day tomorrow (when the current ads expire) I’m taking the site offline. I would like very much for someone to take over OMI. I think it’s important that a site like this continue, but I don’t have it in me any more.
I really hope somebody picks up the slack and carries the site further, as I think it was a good blog for junkies like me who have worked in the very same kinds of places that are talked about on that site. I’ve linked there a few times in the past, and I think that media commentary that that site provides is sorely needed.
More commentary here and here.
Honestly, if I knew more about the Portland-area media, I’d offer to at least help take over the site, but I already have very little free time as it is.
Update: Folks are trying to keep up the discussion elsewhere.
He Probably Had The Three Wolf Moon Shirt On
Ten Twenty (sorry, brain fart) years later, have things really changed in China? Nope.
There’s a great Frontline piece on Tank Man and some great stories from photographers who were there have been posted on the NYT Lens blog. I would love to know what happened to that guy, as would many, I’m sure.
(And if you don’t understand the joke in the headline, read up.)
Update on 6/8: The NYT Lens blog has another never-before-seen angle of the events.