A new study by MeFeedia indicates that consumers using mobile devices are more engaged video watchers than those on desktop computers. Jay Yarow reports that iPad owners lead the pack on consumption of mobile video
Poynter Online – Mobile Media
Archives for July 2010
Microsoft tries pissing in Apple’s wheaties, pisses on their own feet instead
A Microsoft executive states:
It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that…
Oh really?
Like MG says, I have a feeling that you’re going to regret that statement. How’s that Windows Mobile business going?
Cross-posted at Telegraphik
Minnesota DFL Representative admits she was wrong about Permit to Carry Law in Minnesota
This video over at WCCO has one of my favorite admissions by a politician ever – that as one of the strongest opponents against the Minnesota Permit to Carry law that her strongly stated facts about how firearms crime would go up were totally wrong.
All in all, a very balanced story that stuck to the facts – not at all what I expect from our local media here in the Twin Cities.
A priest in Boston shows us how to die
The Boston Globe highlights the life and death of a priest who gave us an amazing lesson on how to die with grace:
“Under my promise to always tell you the truth, I have discontinued chemo and other treatments,’’ he wrote, adding, “I’m beyond the place where chemo can help me. I have come home to die. I am near the end of my journey.’’
Father Field, who had stood in the pulpit month after month, performing pastoral duties through intense pain, sat in a wheelchair on June 27. Speaking into a microphone, he asked if anyone had questions. There were none. Instead, the parishioners took their turn to stand. They began to clap, their applause echoing through the church for minute after minute, as if to prolong his time with them.
A masterful teacher who deftly discovered new insights in familiar Gospel passages, Father Field spent the past two years using his own life as a lesson in how to let life shine in the shadow of death. “I am in a place of great peace and gratitude,’’ he wrote. Father Field, who lived in the church rectory, died Monday. He was 59 and had celebrated his 20th anniversary as an ordained priest last month.
His journey reminds me the life and death of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago…
Lee Bollinger gets it totally wrong on public funding for journalism
The idea of public funding for the press stirs deep unease in American culture. To many it seems inconsistent with our strong commitment, embodied in the First Amendment, to having a free press capable of speaking truth to power and to all of us. This press is a kind of public trust, a fourth branch of government. Can it be trusted when the state helps pay for it?
via Lee Bollinger: Journalism Needs Government Help – WSJ.com.
No, journalism does not need government help. And we’re not willing to pay for it.
WordPress is free. So are other blogging platforms. Go use them, write interesting and insightful content, you will bring in business.
When companies like the New York Times spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build new HQ buildings in New York City, find themselves unable to pay for the building a few years later, and then wonder what happened to their business model – there are bigger issues at stake here than just government funding.
Charlotte zings Reid from beyond the grave – John L. Smith – ReviewJournal.com
Her obituary, printed in Tuesday’s Review-Journal, reads in part, “We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have taken a large role in the election of Harry Reid to U.S. Congress. Let the record show Charlotte was displeased with his work. Please, in lieu of flowers, vote for another more worthy candidate.”
via Charlotte zings Reid from beyond the grave – John L. Smith – ReviewJournal.com.
Justice for Johannes Mehserle – Reason Magazine
Radley Balko, as usual, gets it right on the trial and verdict of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle:
Early in the morning of January 1, 2009, in a now infamous incident captured on video by dozens of cell phones and replayed across the globe, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 23-year-old Oscar Grant as Grant lay on his stomach on an Oakland BART platform. Last week, a Los Angeles jury found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Because the jury had the option to convict Mehserle of second-degree murder, and perhaps because the jury contained no blacks (Mehserle is white, Grant was black), the verdict has enraged civil rights groups and sparked protests and rioting in Oakland. The Department of Justice is now looking into the possibility of trying Mehserle a second time under federal civil rights law.
The jury got it right.