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Zachary Levi as Chuck My thought for the moment is about the Warner Brothers/NBC television series Chuck. It’s a terrific show and, frankly, I’m hooked on it. More...
On the short list of my most talented friends Eric Simons has always hovered near the top. An excellent and generous guy, he was one of my best friends in college and remains...
As a journalist, academic, and computer nerd, I’ve watched with fascination as Internet denizens and digital distribution have created shifts and rifts in our media landscape. What do blogs, wikis, digital video, and all the rest mean for traditional journalism? What does journalism mean for them? And what are the right questions to be asking about all these things?
Here’s where you’ll find any random thoughts or commentary on life, the Universe, and everything that I’ve seen fit to share with the world for one reason or another. Some entries are on academia and what I do for a living, and others focus on a wide array of different things. Take a look, see what you think, and please chime in whenever you like.
Over the years, I’ve kept a number of open travel journals. Here on this site, I’ve collected a number of my favorite entries since 2005. Think of them as vignettes—snapshots both of the places I visited, and from various moments in my life.
Here’s where you can find out where I’m publishing and presenting my research—among other things. When I’m not doing research or grading papers, I moonlight as a science journalist. I’ve worked for Seed Magazine, NPR, and Scientific American online. I also enjoy putting a spotlight on work by my friends, and you’ll find some of their work here, too.
My thought for the moment is about the Warner Brothers/NBC television series Chuck. It’s a terrific show and, frankly, I’m hooked on it. More so than I have been on any show in a long, long time. I could wax eloquent about all the reasons I like it, but there are entire [...]
Far too much time, in both web and print publishing, is spent agonizing over how to shoehorn pieces of writing into one section of a publication or another. In real life we celebrate when our various interests converge, and that’s what I’ve attempted here. This box is where you’ll find the latest post that reflects several of my interests. The connecting lines show you which those are.
