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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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“Boy was I ever important,” New York Times columnist David Carr declared during his Internet Week keynote. That’s when the newspapers’ presses – located one floor below — would come to life after he had submitted an important scoop, “and you would feel the rumble in your butt,” Carr said. Now, the once all-powerful cabal…
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You think that the guy who Brad Pitt played in the movie “Moneyball” would get tired of watching his movie star doppleganger. Billy Beane is keynoting the start to Internet Week, with its focus on “Big Data, Big Solutions.” And obviously, with our degree’s emerging emphasis on data and storytelling, it’s a timely talk. Yahoo!…