Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people […]
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Posted on May 27th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Which is a total bugger for a Saturday. I’m bored with working, so am stealing this meme from Gwen:
5 snacks I enjoy:
1. Pickles, gherkins, cornichons…anything but American sweet pickles.
2. Skinny Cow ice cream products.
3. Walker’s Light crisps (ready salted, please).
4. Sainsbury’s non-fat cottage cheese with pineapple.
5. Fruit.
5 things I would do if I were a […]
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Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
It was never really about bias, but about the inescapable truth that we each view the world through our own unique prisms, shaped by life experiences and other influences. Non-disclosure of those worldviews just makes things shady. Jeff Jarvis:
[J]ournalists do not own or even decide the truth. It is their job to help the public […]
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Posted on April 29th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Jeff Jarvis is consulting the BBC, and is excited over the Beeb’s claims that it wants to “reinvent” itself. Here’s what I said to Jeff:
Jeff, the point is that the BBC doesn’t want to ‘reinvent’ the very worst element of itself: the funding via shakedown of Joe Public. We’re not talking about a situation where […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Cluetrain co-author David Weinberger says he thinks of ‘user-generated content’ as ‘us-generated content‘. I like.
David also links to this Economist article, Among the audience. Great quotation re Barry Diller:
“What an ignoramus!” says Jerry Michalski, with some exasperation. He advises companies on the uses of new media tools. “Look around and there’s tons of great stuff […]
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Posted on April 17th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I can scarcely believe that this is a BBC programme:
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America - all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the […]
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Posted on March 31st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Antoine writes via email:
The Western Standard, among other things, the only regular media outlet for free-market views in Canada, is being sued by the Alberta Human Rights Commission following what looks like a bogus complaint about publishing the Danish cartoons.
Some of you can afford to donate money to the WS’s defence fund. Some of you […]
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Posted on October 29th, 2005 by Jackie Danicki
Friday night, standing in front of Charing Cross station, waiting for a bus, I found myself listening to a Bleatcast from James Lileks, one of my favourite writers on the web (or elsewhere). It was this Bleatcast in particular, about what Neil McIntosh describes as cultural references that wither with age. As Neil says, this […]
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