Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Media

How Video Killed the Video Star.

Interesting article in The New York Times: Outshining MTV: How Video Killd the Video Star, which is about how online video is impacting MTV and other aspects of music video culture. Favorite note: …More and more CD’s are bundled with DVD’s, or reissued with DVD supplements, or followed by stand-alone DVD companions. From the Arctic […]

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The Atlantic: So You Want to Be a Writer…

A nice piece in Atlantic Unbound on the writing life: So You Want to Be a Writer. Currently available for free, but probably slipping behind the subscriber wall shortly, so skim it while you can… The only piece of advice I’d add: don’t tke a gig that will freely suck all your time in addition […]

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Major Lodge Victory!

I’m way too excited about the news that there’s a new album out from the Gin Blossoms, “Major Lodge Victory.” This is awesome. The last new full Gin Blossoms album I know of was Congratulations… I’m Sorry, which came out back in 1996, the same year I graduated from high school – and the clips […]

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Second season of the new Doctor Who coming to Sci-Fi.

I’m not sure how I feel about Sci Fi airing the second season of the new Doctor Who – on the one hand, I loved last year’s episodes with the ninth Doctor, but I’m not sure how I feel about the tenth Doctor, nor am I sure how desperately I need to surrender another hour […]

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A clean Slate.

I have to throw Slate some massive props. Not only is it probably the most long-lived online publication around (due in no small part to all the Microsoft Moolah that supported it for so long) but it is one of the few sites that has managed to make me go, “Huh – now there’s an […]

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Where did all these people come from?

If there’s one recurrent theme to SXSW 2006, it would be who the hell are all these people? The last time I was here, in 2003, there was a lot of hand-wringing about whether or not SXSW would survive. Now the halls are clogged with people, many of the panels are standing-room-only, and there are […]

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They’re Everyware!

I’m currently sitting in a truly inspriring lecture by Adam Greenfield on his concept of everyware, from his new book of the same name. The big dea is ubiquitous computing, and this is both thrilling and intellectually sparkling. I have every intention of grabbing a copy of the book after the lecture, and I can’t […]

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Movie sign! (redux)

Right before the end of the semester I posted a list of movies I wanted to see over break. Well, the winter break is winding down and it’s been wonderful – I’ve been spending some serious quality time with Nick and Laura, I’ve helped my family out with a couple of projects, I’ve collected a […]

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Amazon.com launches the O.C. Store.

I just posted the following weblog entry over on the MIT Creative Industries blog, but I thought it was compelling enough to repost here. Interesting — Amazon.com has launched their “Necessary Objects for The O.C.” store. It’s a clever move, especially if Amazon places pop-up ads into the corner of the screen during each episode […]

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Xbox 360: meh?

Apparently the new Xbox 360 scheduled to launch this week is getting some pretty mediocre reviews. I got to see a 360 while I was in Austin last month, and the new King Kong game looked like a lot of fun – but aside from that, I’m inclined to agree. The Xbox 360 should be […]

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