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Gadget of the Month Club
Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….). I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desire to lose it). As much of a gadget geek as I am (I’m no Leo Laporte – my wife would’t let me [...]
Tough love for media
Here in a bit more friendly video format is the keynote I gave to the Munich Media Days (in English) a week ago, which I linked to earlier. I decided to be blunt and tough and tell them I was worried about the protectionist talk I’ve been hearing from Germany and that they need to [...]
The temporary web
I’m fretting about forgetting things, not just because I’m getting older (on top of middle-aged surgery and its inconveniences and a dicky ticker I now have sciatica; I am a parody of age). I’m fretting about us all forgetting things because we’re using Twitter. Twitter is temporary. Streams are fleeting. If the future of the [...]

Listen to Blair's W&L Journalism Ethics Institute talk
Washington and Lee University Jayson Blair spoke for about 30 minutes at Washington and Lee University on Friday and then answered questions from students and journalists for almost an hour. || Roanoke Times story on the speech. || Audio link.
Google Books launches a digitized magazine stand
New York Observer Google is scanning entire issues of magazines -- ads and all. Some titles are decades old, so "it's kind of like heading into your parents' attic and checking out all the yellowing LIFE issues, only online," writes Gillian Reagan.
Will Jayson Blair be delivering his ethics lecture on Fox News this weekend?
NationalJournal.com It's a busy weekend for the disgraced former New York Times reporter: He's the featured speaker at this afternoon's Washington and Lee University journalism ethics forum, and he's Chris Wallace's guest on "Fox News Sunday." || Note to Ed Wasserman: How about sending (or posting) a transcript of Blair […]