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Blog posts filed under "media"
Sarah Palin is a chicken
July 21 — No Comments
Do you believe that a chicken can beat people at Tic Tac Toe? Do you believe that Sarah Palin writes her own Facebook notes?
About me
February 6 — 6 Comments
I'm a Web developer living with my wonderful wife Amy in Racine, Wisconsin.
WGN-TV shuts out The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
September 30 — 11 Comments
WGN-TV has reportedly forced The Museum of Classic Chicago Television to pull all WGN material from the museum website.
Keith Olbermann on Glenn Beck on Rockefeller Center
September 5 — No Comments
Keith Olbermann's segments on Glenn Beck's Rockefeller Center lunacy the past two nights have been hysterical. Do not miss these.
Blogging how-to: 'The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging'
July 13 — No Comments
Perhaps not the best blogging book if you're looking to make money blogging, but still an entertaining and inspiring read.
'Morning Joe' Scarborough brews up Jon Stewart feud over Starbucks
June 10 — No Comments
Is there any connection between Scarborough picking a fight with the 'Daily Show' host and the launch of his campaign for, uh, his book?
Stephen Colbert reports from Iraq this week
June 8 — No Comments
'The Colbert Report' should be especially good this week, with Stephen Colbert on location in Baghdad, Iraq.
Epic fail: Twitter mutes @replies, squelches 'social' networking
May 13 — 1 Comment
Twitter has made a colossal blunder by muting tweets to the friends of your friend.
The new yellow pages: Google advertising shines in NPR segment
May 6 — 2 Comments
'All Things Considered' looks at how small businesses are using Google Adwords to attract local customers.
'Tweezing': How to pluck yourself big money from Twitter
April 22 — No Comments
Carve out an exciting a new career in the 140-character economy.
ABC's 'World News Now' (or is it 'America This Morning'?)
April 16 — 6 Comments
Whatever it's called, it's a pretty good early-morning news show that deserves its own website.
Will Wisconsin's Time Warner Cable customers soon see Road Runner caps?
April 6 — No Comments
In some cites, Time Warner Cable is reportedly going to start charging premiums for Internet bandwidth usage. How does $200 per month sound to you?
Rick Santelli, CNBC in hot water on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'
March 5 — 1 Comment
Finally someone on TV takes a closer look at Rick Santelli's much-hyped bailout rant.
Rachel Maddow ridicules Racine's Rep. Paul Ryan
March 3 — No Comments
The recession is Rep. Paul Ryan's chance to become more visible, and he's taking it.
T.D. Mischke show returning March 4 via CityPages.com webcast (updated)
February 18 — 2 Comments
Great news: Tommy will be heard again beginning the first week of March.
Drew Peterson's ex-fiancée Christina Raines on the CBS 'Early Show'
February 2 — 1 Comment
This morning's interview capped the latest breathtaking stunt in Drew Peterson's circus of distraction.
MSNBC: Interactive inauguration, complete text and video
January 20 — No Comments
MSNBC's 'Explore' feature is a cool new marriage of online video and text.
Breathtaking images
January 20 — 1 Comment
We're watching the inauguration on C-SPAN, and the streaming HD video from CBS.
L. Randolph Cook hopes to save souls by claiming Oprah freebased crack cocaine
January 17 — No Comments
The 'Chicago businessman' is the subject of the latest National Enquirer exclusive. He says he just seeks closure.
Newspapers, magazines get small
January 13 — No Comments
While the world waits for everyone to buy a Kindle, newspapers and magazines get smaller and smaller.
Time Warner Cable to drop Viacom, including Comedy Central?
December 31 — No Comments
Our cable provider is Time Warner Wisconsin, and we might lose all of our Viacom channels tonight, as the New Year is rung in .
NPR: 'Bread in the Water,' where ducks walk on fishes
December 30 — 1 Comment
I heard a truly original piece on NPR today, about an obscure Pennsylvania tourist attraction "Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish."
Wisconsin's million-dollar Web designers depict Minneapolis skyline
December 30 — 2 Comments
Why is there a picture of the Minneapolis skyline on the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System website?
Barack Obama: Jerk or Jedi?
December 29 — 1 Comment
Does the media really have to fan every flame and cover every sandwich?
Rick Sanchez and baby talk news
December 24 — 2 Comments
Rick Sanchez and the new, superficial, Twitter-it-yourself news. Is it Quality?
Steve Dahl Show items at Chicago Tribune
December 19 — 1 Comment
Links to LaNell's letter on the anniversary of Terry Armour's passing, and what Steve Dahl has been up to since his radio show was canceled.
Drew Peterson engaged to 23-year-old woman? Maybe not (updated)
December 17 — 2 Comments
Drew Peterson's publicist confirms his client has become engaged to a 23-year-old woman. Drew wonders how this got out.
Could free TV make a comeback?
December 17 — 1 Comment
Our neighbor gets plenty of digital channels -- for free -- on the same old TVs she has owned for years.
Iraqi reporter throws his shoes at Bush
December 14 — 1 Comment
FishbowlDC posts NBC video and three entries about one Iraqi reporter's farewell today to President George W. Bush.
Attention, Richard Roeper: The new media flows two ways
December 12 — 1 Comment
Richard Roeper sends these tweets to 1,142 followers, but he follows not a single one of them in return. Where Ebert is vigorously interactive, Roeper is one-way.
And now Kevin Matthews has MS
December 8 — 1 Comment
I just opened a Google alert to read 'Kevin Matthews returns to the airwaves after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis' via Kyle Koster's Sun-Times .
Oh, crap -- Mischke too (updated)
December 7 — 7 Comments
My two biggest radio heroes have both been taken off the air on the same day -- first Steve Dahl, and now T.D. Mischke.
Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP is getting panned
December 6 — No Comments
If Gwyneth Paltrow wants to be the Thin White Next Oprah, she may need to kick her GOOP down a notch.
Total Oprah
December 5 — No Comments
Robyn Okrant has been living, breathing, and eating Oprah for nearly a year.
She loves me, she loves me not
December 5 — No Comments
If we play a role in creating the world and our own future in it, then the part where we toss our crystal ball back and forth between the one hand and the other hand is crucial.
The news is in my house
December 4 — No Comments
Steve Dahl called me to say that CBS Radio is canceling his show, so I am losing my job.
Live blogging Election Day 2008
November 4 — No Comments
Election Day 2008, as experienced in our living room.
Racine's minute in the 'World News' spotlight
October 11 — No Comments
The Dow drops 679 points and throng of Obama supporters gathers in downtown Racine. ABC World News, here in our city to cover the election, shows none of this.
Four weeks wandering Web 2.0
September 11 — 1 Comment
My four weeks playing with Twitter, Rejaw, Ping.fm, Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed and etc.
Terry Armour, 1961-2007
December 28 — 1 Comment
We were shocked and saddened to learn of Terry's death.
I'm not Oprah-worthy
November 3 — No Comments
I friended Oprah on MySpace, but after ten days, she still has not reciprocated.
Matt Taibbi, a breath of fresh air
October 21 — No Comments
This 'Rolling Stone' writer covering the campaign is brutally funny and frank.
Magazines and coffee beans
June 15 — No Comments
Sure, they're obsolete -- but magazine are still fun to read and offer depth.
Movie review: 'Blogumentary'
February 11 — No Comments
Watch the full movie online -- a look at the blogging phenomenon and a number of the most well-known bloggers.
Faster, faster, the lights are turning red
December 13 — No Comments
Why do places like Reykjavik and Slovenia have Internet speeds 100 times faster than the USA?
Keith Olbermann's special comments
October 22 — No Comments
His occasional seven to ten-minute editorial essays on MSNBC take the Bush administration to task through sharp writing and dry wit.
When in Racine
July 6 — 1 Comment
Since moving to Racine, we're beginning to appreciate some of the special things here.
The Bean: A shining, elastic success
May 16 — 1 Comment
Like the Mona Lisa, Anish Kapoor's sculpture captures swarms of humans in wordless aesthetic arrest.
Labeling immigrants
May 1 — No Comments
How did CNN's graphic designers arrive at this odd choice in branding their coverage of immigrants?
British law to protect religion from hatred -- and laughter?
June 26 — No Comments
Under a new law in Britain, it might be llegal to mock religion.
