Nix Bits

Hot on the heels of our discussion at Rising Tide III where the fall of print journalism was a hot topic, the Times-Picayune’s Angus Lind comes up with a real scoop: “Deep Float checks in with the scoop on a new Uptown route”. That’s right, apparently Krewe D’etat will be changing it’s start time and […]

On Saturday’s Journalism panel, there was a fair amount of discussion around cable news. Many bemoan the rise of Fox News but several panelists argued that CNN is “just as bad.” They’re right. It’s terrible. I’ve rarely watched any cable news because it’s just so excruciating and replacing TVs that have been destroyed by bricks […]

So I was feeling all invigorated from attending my first Rising Tide on Saturday. Unfortunately, I ended up working all night and felt like a zombie on Sunday. There was simply no way I could string two coherent words together, much less complete whole sentences. It really was fantastic to meet everyone that I’ve read, […]

So I put off reading E of We Could Be Famous’s analysis of the New Orleans School’s Master plan for the next 30 years. The local T-P proudly trumpeted the plan which calls for demolishing some 52 schools and construction on 28 over a 30 year period. If one only reads the newspaper it all […]

Gotta check it out.

So last week we finally purchased ourselves a new laptop, an Acer Extensa 4420. We’d been putting it off for a while limping along with an old Dell Inspiron 8100 with a failing hard drive. That laptop had been pushing 5 years old. It was actually in our old house after Katrina and managed to […]

Oyster does an excellent job dissecting the now oft-repeated talking point that there were no major oil spills after Katrina and Rita. The Wall Street Journal made this claim in a recent editorial in support of expanding oil drilling to the Eastern Gulf of Mexico as well as to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. But […]

So I’ve been watching the state legislature with amusement. First they decide in the Senate to triple their own pay. Following the inevitable public outcry, they cut the raise down to just twice as much as they make today. Now, several legislators have voted to waive the pay raise. They can sign another document later, […]

Karl Rove, Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush : Go ahead. Read this.

So I’ve been travelling two out of the last three weeks. I spent last week in Vegas for EMCWorld. Which I’ll detail later. I’ve had no time to really keep up with blogs or anything like that and finally skimmed my way through the morass today. During that time, Greg Peters has delivered on the […]