I am an information junkie/traveler/mediast with a background in journalism, a career in communications research and design, and a PhD dissertation-in-progress in media psychology. At present I am absorbing as much information as I can about everything surrounding me.
Oct 14, 2009
When I went in for my Pennsylvania driver’s license I received a temporary license and a note explaining why the actual license would arrive in the mail within 10 days.
The explanation I recall was something along the lines of running facial recognition on my …
Oct 5, 2009
I really like the term ruin porn that Jim Russel uses in the Burgh Diaspora post on Rustbelt Landscape and Memory. Cropping of images attached to entire cities create a "mythical landscape devoid of context."
Ruin porn also seems to include sounds bites, or …
Sep 21, 2009
I’ve touched on crowdsourcing funding for journalism and investigative blogging being a promising avenue for the future of media. But what about those millions of other projects that sneak up on us in the night begging to be done?

Stranger Than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, The People vs. Larry Flint, In The Time of Butterflies
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