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  • 1994: ‘You won’t be alone’: Predicting the future
  • 2006: How we all got digital
    • 2016: How we all got digital (cont.)
  • 2006: Through a glass, darkly: the media in 2010 (from the vantages of 2004 and ’06)
  • 2009: Adventures in paid content
  • 2009: How America was 2-1-3’d
  • 2009: The ambiguity is inherent
  • 2010: “All passes. Art alone endures.”
  • 2011: The meaty sizzle of a 21st Century brand
  • 2011: In the land of the jólabókaflóðið
  • 2012: RedEye turns 10. How did it happen?
  • 2012: Sliding away
  • 2013: The world – – well, the Web – – #throughglass
  • 2015: Google Glass and Apple Watch, compared

The next miracle (v11.2): Owen Youngman

A media life, 1969 – 2022

A media life, 1969 – 2022

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Owen with his Apple //e, 1983
In which we look back at a week of tweeting and posting about Steve Jobs, thanks to Storify and all the great people who have been writing since Wednesday night.

The jobs that were done by my Jobs tweets (and others’)

October 8, 2011

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In which we compare the world as seen by the Chicago Tribune on the day I started work, Sept. 4, 1971, and today, 40 years later. Perhaps less change than you think.

It was 40 years ago today, redux

September 4, 2011

Kleifarvatn, Indriðason's "Draining Lake" 3
In which we focus on Iceland's thousand years of literary endeavor, from the sagas and eddas through Halldór Laxness and on to Arnaldur Indriðason. (It helps that we just visited.)

In the land of the jólabókaflóðið

August 1, 2011


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