It’s official: Sid (aka Winkie) is going back to Japan next month. The job is a step up in responsibility and will force me back into writing. I’ll do more of the editing I like to do (working closely with…
JD on copyright run amok
Herr Lasica profiles a filmmaker who got stamped under Disney’s heel. The closing quote: “This all comes down to whether you believe culture should be bottom up or a top-down approach imposed by the corporations,” Horowitz says. “As it is…
Are contractors mercenaries?
Some of the lefty blogs have started calling the “civilian contractors” in Iraq mercenaries. The idea being: they’re mostly ex-military and they’re in Iraq for the big bucks. Guns for hire, mainly. But my understanding of the term is that…
Monday morning blogroll
Doc Searls links to a great series of posts by a friend who’s gone home to India and many interesting surprises. Doug Fisher warns against getting parenthetical in quotes. Nonsense Verse has a new home. Bonus link: A photo of…
For all you Capital Idea fans
You may not have noticed that Nicole Stockdale has added an Atom feed to her blog. Here’s the URL: http://nstockdale.blogspot.com/atom.xml. Syndication feeds are built into Movable Type via RSS, and available at blogger.com via a new format called Atom (here’s…
Why Dan Neil won a Pulitzer
He’s the L.A. Times car critic who must’ve caused furrowing of brows among the Capital-J Journalism crowd. Who wants to encourage people to think cars might, you know, occupy a place in our culture or anything? I got around to…