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Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen

Journalist. Futurist. Formalist. Humanist.
King Cobra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Cobras cook their prey on spits. They light the fire by rubbing their scaly underbellies rapidly against one another.[3] - Michael Andersen
Government-supported journalism - http://www.yelvington.com/content...
Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Now Soderstrom and some friends were wandering down Haight Street holding a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon and drinking from paper bags. “I don’t care about money,” he said. “I just want games to be something like art.” - Michael Andersen
Dresden Codak » Archive » Caveman Science Fiction - http://dresdencodak.com/2009...
Academe and the Decline of News Media - The Chronicle Review - http://chronicle.com/article...
After noting that he would prefer newspapers without a government to government without newspapers, Thomas Jefferson added, "But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." - Michael Andersen
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made me feel terrible about myself, and I loved it. - http://www.slate.com/id...
"It was the most powerful emotional experience any video game has ever given me." - Michael Andersen
TBL's core goal for the Web in 1989 was context, not distribution. Did everybody know this already? http://www.w3.org/History...
Worst movie review ever written? Cliches per paragraph: stratospheric! (Each dash counts separately.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
The worst movie review ever - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
How many cliches can you spot in four paragraphs? Dashes count. - Michael Andersen
Good Q, @danielbachhuber. But can't readers just browse to the high-context version on demand? I have less faith in algorithms.
Palin's book tour itinerary is definitely unusual: http://www.facebook.com/notes...
YouTube Direct to Link Media Companies and Consumers’ Video - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"We’re trying to connect media organizations with citizen reporters," said Steve Grove. - Michael Andersen
@abrahamhyatt My fvt thing abt Bing-pays-to-index-news scenario is that Twitter search becomes an end run - spidered by ppl, not robots.txt
Proof that @ThinkOutLoudOPB is one of PDX's 2-3 best sources of serious journalism: the comments http://www.opb.org/thinkou...
The future of media? Bet on events - http://snarkmarket.com/2009...
When it comes to events, "gen­er­a­tion beats recita­tion." - Michael Andersen
Can news and the news business be separated? « The Wayward Press Critic - http://kevinmlerner.wordpress.com/2009...
Journalism at its best is a practice, not an industry. And maybe the best way to achieve that ideal is to completely delink the business of journalism from the practice of journalism—and to establish journalism practices. - Michael Andersen
@jon__edwards actually makes me sound smart on #wikis, thx to ideas nurtured by @stevenwalling &c. http://mobile.davisenterprise.com/mobile_...
Doesn't look so bad to me! RT @azeem: What a world without Net neutrality would look like: http://packetlife.net/blog... (via @vincrosbie)
RT @Richard_Florida: Where the troubled banks are (% of state's banks) WA 26%, UT 25%, AZ 21%, NV 20%, OR 19.5%, GA 19%, CA 18%, FL 16%
Portland quickly finding answers for USA's increasingly freelance workforce: Where are all these people going to work? http://www.good.is/post...
Portland Creatives Find New Ways to Work Together | GOOD - http://www.good.is/post...
Portland is quickly finding the answers to a much greater issue that’s going to affect an increasingly freelance workforce across the country: Where are all these people going to work? - Michael Andersen
RT @cshirky: Overlooked benefit of ebooks: ending the hard/paperback distinction that created two-tier participation in public debates
So what exactly is newspaper web ‘premium’ content? Please tell me: SteveOuting.com - http://steveouting.com/2009...
Cable TV's lessons for newspapers - http://www.boston.com/ae...
The cable industry solved the paid content problem in two clever ways - by chopping the content into small pieces and then by packaging many of those pieces together. - Michael Andersen
Vancouver's Mayor Pollard, 69, cries during concession speech. "This sucks." #waelex
Web craves news like kids crave sugar; wikis are whole grains of the web. http://www.niemanlab.org/2009... @StevenWalling & others might enjoy #selfpromo
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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