April 16, 2010
Science Friday: Windy
A look at wind turbines. Below and here.
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April 14, 2010
WaPO on Bill Treanor’s Youth Activist Legacy
A recent article in The Washington Post covers the legacy of Bill Treanor, the now-retired publisher of Youth Today (a dear client of mine).
For 40 years, Bill has been sort of the Zelig of Washington politics: a hippie when Dupont Circle was the epicenter of the counterculture, a Hill staffer, a D.C. school board member and the co-founder of Youth Today, a newspaper that every month since 1992 has been sticking a finger in the eyes of nonprofit groups that purport to help children but don’t have much to show for it.
This is only the latest article in a ton of recent press related to Youth Today; notably, YT editor Patrick Boyle has interviewed a ton lately on his Boy Scout reporting.
Here is the full article about Bill, who we wish well in his “About Schmidt”-like retirement (he knows what that means :).
April 13, 2010
TV Cord Cutters: You are Not Alone
Due mainly to confusion about gadgets generally and other personal developments, we ditched having a television set last June, around the time that broadcast went digital.
We haven’t missed it. We still catch our favorite shows (Breaking Bad! Dexter!) via iTunes or Hulu or Netflix. Baseball games are listened to on the radio; NPR is too or is streamed live online. I watched The Golden Globes, practically commercial-free, on Justin.tv. And I’m no longer subjected to drive-by hearings of the Sunday political chat shows-about-nothing being piped into my living room. Peace at last!
Turns out, there are now 800,000 of us, according to an article on Tech Crunch. Sure, some Twitterati have more followers, but the number of cord-cutters is projected to grow to 1.6 million households by the end of next year.
So, TV-less we’ll remain, at least for the time being.
April 11, 2010
NPR Satirist Rips Tiger’s “Redemtion” Ad
A bit of satire via NPR’s Brian Unger for your Sunday/Monday (hat tip/Lisa Fitz). Read at the link or listen below.
April 9, 2010
Justice Stevens Will Retire
Yes, you’ve probably heard that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire, but do you know the time line for confirming his successor? Scotusblog figures it out.