The website Nippon.com recently carried an interview with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone where one of Japan’s most distinguished politicians opined on the problems with the current political predicament Japan finds itself in. As a previous prime minister, as well as someone who has been around the block a few more times than I have, [...]
I really enjoyed this piece by Malcolm Gladwell about Bruce Ratner and the strong scent of corruption involved in the new Barclays Center. Excellent reminder that Gladwell is a great journalist and not just the writer of pop psychology bestsellers.
MG Siegler on the latest brou-ha-ha regarding TechCrunch and its founder Michael Arrington: But ultimately there is only one thing that matters: information. People don’t care how they get it, just that they get it. If they don’t think they can trust it from one source, they’ll find another way to get it. It really [...]
Not the most important part of the article (but my favourite part nonetheless): You’d think it’d be fun, wouldn’t you? Writing about “The Simpsons” and such for money. It’s every slacker’s dream job. And I was making $35,000! I remember that I crossed a certain threshold, soon after I got my new job: I stopped [...]
The following tweet flashed across my twitterstream yesterday: The HuffPost wants you to write for free. The NYTimes wants you to pay up to $455/year to read online news. There’s got to be a better way. I immediately tweeted back: The NYT wants you pay (between $195 and) $455 to read the NYT. You’re welcome [...]
So I’m reading this article in Edge magazine and I just have to stop. The interviewer is doing their best but the corporate blow-hard on the other end just won’t stop using words like ‘amazing’ and ‘blown away’ while he dodges questions and repeats corporate spin. The snookering of the media by corporate and political [...]
Well it’s been over a week now and I’ve given up waiting. Waiting? For what? Perhaps some background detail is in order first. Despite seemingly all predictions to the contrary, Blizzard Entertainment, the developers behind the ridiculously successful World of Warcraft, announced last week that their next game would be a sequel to their ridiculously [...]
A gripe I’ve had for some time now has been the lack of any real journalism in video game magazines. This is indeed part of a larger problem that affects all areas of the media but in respect of at least some there is a halcyon period to which one can look back on with fond [...]