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Archive for March, 2009
Poisson d’avril, take 2 [Google]
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Poisson d’avril! [Guardian]
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Some of my Twitterfied friends took this literally, not noticing that when it showed up online here in the U.S., it was already April 1 across the pond. Anyway, the tone is just right.
Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink | Media | The Guardian .
The pasture is prologue
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Monday is the first day of the spring term at Northwestern. It will have been four months, exactly, since I went out to pasture after 37 years at Tribune Tower.
There has been a lot to think about, watching the news industry from the outside since Thanksgiving. Ultimately, I suspect educators and entrepreneurs together will have to come up with the tools and the ideas that help news professionals sustain not only journalism, but also the kind of society that wants or needs journalism.
And so, off to the Medill School of Journalism I go. One miracle at a time.
whitehousechatroom.gov, then and now
Friday, March 27th, 2009How Times Have Changed [Or Not] In Response to New Media, installment 14,441:
- Obama explaining why he decided to have a live Internet video chat:
“This is an experiment,” the president said in a video promoting the event, “but it’s also an exciting opportunity for me to look at a computer and get a snapshot of what Americans across the country care about.”
(via Obama Makes History in Live Internet Video Chat – NYTimes.com.)
- FDR explaining why he decided to have a live radio “fireside chat,” on the subject of the banking system (from the New York Times of March 12, 1933, in advance of the 10 p.m. address that evening):
The President said that the Constitution laid upon him the duty of reporting to Congress assembled in Washington the condition of the country, and he believed he had a like duty to convey to the people themselves a clear picture of the situation at the national capital “whenever there is danger of any confusion as to what the government is undertaking.”
I got a pal in Kalamazoo. Several more than before, in fact
Thursday, March 26th, 2009![Murray Perahia [Ismael Roldan, WSJ]](http://owenyoungman.com/thenextmiracle/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ed-aj225_ccpera_dv_200903251213451-199x300.jpg "Murray Perahia")
Murray Perahia (Ismael Roldan, WSJ)
We were in Kalamazoo tonight to hear the pianist Murray Perahia play a monster recital that included Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and concluded with Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Handel.” As it happens, the Journal ran an interview with him in this morning’s paper; quotes like the following should have set me up for how good the Brahms would be, but I still was unprepared…..
“I love how with the fewest notes, Brahms has the greatest effect,” Mr. Perahia said. “Every note speaks to him like a world.”
via Pianist’s Passions: Constant, Recent and Renewed – WSJ.com.
Equally rewarding were our conversations with the people of Kalamazoo … not just those associated with the Gilmore Keyboard Festival (executive director Daniel Gustin, Facebook friend and development director Alice Kemerling), which staged the event, but – as they overheard we were from Chicago – people in the crowd we’d never met. We even were greeted by Bill Richardson, former president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation, whose major gift to the Gilmore endowed this concert.
They struck up conversations about a wide variety of topics, including the fates of newspapers like the Ann Arbor News and their own Grand Rapids Press; the theoretical boundaries of “Chicagoland”; and, of course, music.
The next full Gilmore International Keyboard Festival is scheduled for April 23 to May 9, 2010, with the lineup to be announced on Sept. 13. I imagine we’ll be there, one way or another. Oh, and don’t just sit there; become a fan of the Gilmore on Facebook yourself!