Archive for April, 2006
What does it say about the current state of the mainstream media when our most prominent truth-tellers are comedians?
1 Comment Published by Ryan April 30th, 2006 in Seriousness.It’s been a serendipitous day. First, the college buddy I’m staying with in Connecticut got All the President’s Men in the mail from Netflix. Alan Pakula’s influential 1976 film (based on the book) profiled Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s hard-working journalistic muckraking (sans internet, cell phones, or computers in general), which uncovered Watergate […]
DVguru is part of the Weblogs Inc. network, which is owned by AOL/Time Warner. MTV is part of Viacom. I now work for two of the largest media corporations in the world. I’m a corporate whore.
On the eve of leaving North Carolina, I wrote a very long, very unfocused treatise on my southern-fried home state. I didn”t post it to this site, because… it was very long and very unfocused. Not that excessive length or a lack of focus has ever prevented me from posting an entry before. […]
How to get a MacBook Pro and an iPod for the price of a dinner date
1 Comment Published by Ryan April 10th, 2006 in Consumerism, Web, Career.After a feature I wrote for DVguru made it onto the front page of digg, Slashdot, and tech.memeorandum over the weekend (and got linked to by over 250 web sites), the last thing I should do is write a post on my own site about computers. I’m a filmmaker, not a nerd/geek/other-derogatory-techie-term, right?
Whatever. […]
These days I’m staying with a college buddy in Connecticut. It’s not quite New York, but it’s a hell of a lot closer than North Carolina, and I’ve been periodically hopping the train into the city. Additionally I’ve started writing for DVguru, a film technology blog (on my way up to NYC last […]
