Hip to be Square

I remember watching Hollywood Squares as a kid but it wasn’t nostalgia that caught my eye when I spied the NYTimes story about the MTV version (word) but that the crew in this photo was using DSLR’s to film footage for the show. That’s the same...

The sound of a single voice

Really nice radio story on Marketplace radio tonight, Alex Chadwick interviewing an American nuclear tech who was at the Daiichi Nuclear power plant. There’s a great moment in this video too. I love how Chadwick just shuts up and listens to Carl Pillitteri as he...

New Storytelling via RadioLab

My favorite radio show makes science sexy and intriguing. Not only do they take science, which heretofore has been boring, and they manage to make it exciting. They also combine stories and create storytelling that is remarkable. If they can do  that for science,...

Stealing Music

An interesting post from a wedding videographer who got busted for using popular music without permission in one of his wedding videos. He ended up paying 5 figures or “$$ xx,xxx.00” in damages, as he describes it because the settlement is sealed. So, at...