Sep
5th
Fri
5th
Working today from the very cool offices of Spotify in Stockholm
Scott Kidder
scott AT skidder DOT net
Currently:
Gawker Media
Hype Machine
Formerly:
NYU Gallatin
Virtually:
Flickr
Miscellaneous
Old and Busted
Archives!
Sep
4th
Thu
4th
On a bus, heading to Stockholm
Sep
2nd
Tue
2nd
One morning when Leela and I arrived at Murdoch’s office for another interview session, we found the 77-year-old News Corp. chairman and C.E.O. hunched over the phone reporting out a story. He’d been out the night before and gotten a tip. Now he was trying to nail it down. His side of the conversation was straight reporter stuff: Who could he call? How could he get in touch? Will they confirm? Barked, impatient, just the facts. Here was the old man, in white shirt, singlet visible underneath, doing one of the same basic jobs he’d been doing since he was 22, having inherited the Adelaide News in Australia from his father. And he was good at it. He was parsing each answer. Re-asking the question. Clarifying every point. His notepad going. He knew the trade. Of how many media-company C.E.O.’s could that be said? This wasn’t a destroyer of journalism—this was a practitioner.
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Tuesdays with Rupert: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
I really enjoyed this piece.
Sep
1st
Mon
1st
Dr. Leatherman said he feared the storm’s lack of impact would worsen a long-standing problem for public safety officials — getting people to move out of harm’s way when their homes are threatened by storms. He said that was one reason why many people remained in New Orleans for Katrina — many of them had left town the year before when Hurricane Ivan threatened, only to see it cause relatively few problems. “People lose confidence,” he said.
Aug
31st
Sun
31st
On Friday night the Ramsey County sheriff’s department, accompanied by the St. Paul police, detained people inside a building here that was being used as a headquarters to plan protests.
Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Hurricane Gustav was larger and more dangerous than Hurricane Katrina, and he pleaded with residents to get out or face flooding and life-threatening winds.
This blog will not be responsible for the results of anyone who drinks every time someone says change. That takes a professional.
Aug
28th
Thu
28th
Waiting in a huge EasyJet checkin line, en route to Estonia
Aug
27th
Wed
27th
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
Good work, government!
Aug
26th
Tue
26th
caro:
BE AFARID!! Buy things at Walmart!I try not to be too politicized, but holy freaking snotburgers. Idiocy at its worst, lowest, and most banal.