Category: People in my neighborhood
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I’ve just pulled out my vinyl copy of Paul Simon’s 1986 album, Graceland — which I purchased in 1986 (“every generation throws a hero up the pop charts”). Over two decades later, I’ve begun spinning it again. It sounds great. I guess the teenage me took pretty good care of this fragile analog media. I…
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This is the second year that I’m co-teaching our foundational “Narratives & Networks in Digital Media.” graduate class with Mac Parks and Shay Colson. At its core (and also the premise to the MCDM/”Storyteller Uprising”): Successful communication depends on the creation of compelling content and sustained multi-platform engagement by distributing this content through relevant networks. This…
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I attended the opening King Tut gala last night at the Pacific Science Center (I’m on the Board of Directors). Obviously, the story of Tut is an amazing one — boy king who dies at 19, but fulfills the pharaoh’s objective of eternal life by being glorified when his tomb is discovered in the 1920’s.…
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Over the years, some of my students have asked me to recount stories from my “glory days” when I traveled the world on behalf of a TV news network. I always resisted, because I never liked it when the old-timers would do that at the bar after a hard day of reporting — as if…
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