Monthly Archives: January 2007

Politics in Brief

By Michael Becker | Published: January 24, 2007
“We bet­ter be damn sure we know what we’re doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.” — Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.)
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The Human Network?

By Michael Becker | Published: January 10, 2007
More evi­dence of Web 2.0’s mar­ket­ing poten­tial: I saw a com­mer­cial for Cisco Systems tonight tout­ing the poten­tial for any­one to be famous on the “human net­work.” The com­mer­cial fea­tures a young man danc­ing in a kitchen, being filmed by what we assume is his father on a cam­era phone. As the com­mer­cial pro­ceeds, video [...]
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The Onyx Project

By Michael Becker | Published: January 9, 2007
Today I watched The Onyx Project inter­ac­tive DVD film. It was writ­ten and directed by Larry Atlas and stars David Strathairn, who recently played Edward Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck. The plot, if the DVD has one, involves Strathairn’s char­ac­ter, Col. Robert Henderson, a for­mer spe­cial ops com­man­der who fought in the Gulf War [...]
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Web 2.0: Self-Publishing

By Michael Becker | Published: January 9, 2007
For hun­dreds of years, the pub­lish­ing indus­try has been a mys­tery. Just how do you get a book pub­lished? Where do you go with your man­u­script, and what hap­pens when you go there? The twists and turns of pro­fes­sion­ally pro­duc­ing a sin­gle book involve hun­dreds of peo­ple, from copy­ed­i­tors to design­ers to print­ers to fork­lift [...]
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