Analysis

Redoing Media – the site, anyway – will remain

September 19, 2011

I’ll update this with more details in a day or two once I’ve thought it through a bit more. But after conversation with a few local PDX media-types, I think there’s still a role for what Redoing Media was attempting to do. Will it take the form of a podcast? Not immediately, no. Should the [...]

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In response to the Vancouver riots – a letter from my friend T

June 16, 2011

I’ve known T (not her full name, of course) for over 14 years now – we’re both members of an online mailing list first designed to help women expecting a child in a given month (July, 1998 in our case) connect to share pregnancy information. Over the years, we’ve evolved into a community of mothers [...]

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Because @rangichan insists that we talk about Franzen…

June 2, 2011

…on today’s Redoing Media show. She asked me in a Twitter DM earlier this week to discuss the article, even when she heard I wasn’t a fan. My 140 ch initial reaction? Similar to this, in fact… But she asked nicely — so I read it under protest. Kept reading, even after seeing this: "I [...]

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How did YOU learn the Preamble to The Constitution?

May 18, 2011

If you’re my age or younger — even now — I’m betting you can not only begin to recite it now, but you can sing it as well (“Weeee the peeeoppple”…) Why? Two words: Schoolhouse Rock. Missed out? Can’t remember? Here’s a refresher: Now, fast-forward umpty-ump years. How can you help educate people about a [...]

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Betsy’s outspoken, opinionated, fearless & direct…

January 11, 2011

…except for when she’s not. And if you were listening to last Thursday’s episode and wondered why we were pulling punches and not naming the blogger we were talking about, well – you just hit a prime example of how a normally fearless, direct and outspoken (I’m always opinionated) woman can become far less so [...]

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What’s on TV? How’d it get there? Do you care?

November 1, 2010

Ah, for the days of the simple black & white television with the rabbit-ear antenna (tin foil optional). Now, if you want to watch television, you have all kinds of questions to answer first: Flat screen, laptop, iPad or old school (big black box)? HDTV or not? If so, what flavor of HD? Why? How [...]

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Who deserves the ‘WTF??’ award?

October 22, 2010

You know what I’m talking about here…right? That site that makes you log in with a unique login or download their custom proprietary app — before you can even see why you’d want to care about what they’re doing/offering. (Even worse: they want you to buy it…) Media outlets touting their social media creds while [...]

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I Have S.A.S.S.* You, too…?

September 7, 2010

For this week’s show, I’m going to have to do a pre-record tomorrow evening ** – but I’d love to hear from as many of you as is possible prior to, say, 10 pm PDT Wednesday night (via comments, Twitter or email: betsy@redoingmedia.com). The topic? My Short Attention Span Syndrome lately. Author Nicholas Carr says [...]

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Following Up After The Matt Davis Interview

March 13, 2010

As I expected, Matt was provocative, passionate, and articulate. But I wasn’t entirely on my game (I blame the rare dose of Sudafed I’d taken to fight off the cold that’s sweeping through the greater PDX metro area) — thus, I didn’t clarify or correct some of Matt’s, um, misperceptions as strongly as I should [...]

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