Someone needs to make a Twitter-like microblog platform for reviews with character-count limits. Reviews of all kinds, not just of restaurants. One site with lots of micro-content prongs. Feel free to steal this idea. It would be a good mobile site. A micro city magazine. Yeah! I’d read that.
So many Yelpers write New Yorker-length essays […]
I’m mildly obsessed with Mindy Kaling’s shopping blog, Things I’ve Bought that I Love. Take this gem about dressing up in winter, for instance, something to which I am totally relating right now because I am flying to New York for work tomorrow and have nothing to wear but ugly sweaters and jeans that don’t […]
I wrote a quick post today on Searchviews about Google vs. Facebook, which was quoted extensively by ComputerWorld in one of their top stories.
1. My interview with Homa Sarshar, the Iranian Barbara Walters, went really well. It’s so cool to talk to someone who does what you want to do and, in her case, has been doing it successfully for more than 40 years. She was really gracious. Now I have to transcribe our conversation, which always blows, […]
I’ve just started writing for LAist.com, a group blog about Los Angeles. My first contribution is a review of last Saturday’s Kiosk show in Orange County, which is actually more a post introducing the band than a classic review.
The Global Voices Iran blog included an interview with me about Pars Arts, late last month. It’s available in English, Arabic, or two kinds of Chinese (traditional and simplified). I have a great deal of respect for the blog translation work done by the people behind Global Voices, a Harvard-founded project, and I am honored […]
Dan Rather is suing CBS.
After he was fired, I went to a talk given by him at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Before the audience got seated, ushers provided note cards for questions. Mine was something like, “You’ve been a journalist for a long time: How do you think blogging is changing journalism today?” A pointed […]
I’m so there.
Here’s a blog I occasionally write on at Iranian.com. Tonight I wrote some observations/suggestions for improving the Iranian web, as I see it.
I started working in a completely new role this week, as writer for the Searchviews blog. I’m really enjoying it, and if you have any interest in the Internet, technology, search engines, or social media, be sure to check it out.