Josh’s Acceptance Speech at SPJ Dinner: “There is a war on journalism and I am a POW. I am not the first. And I will probably not be the last. But I’d like to thank the Northern California chapter of SPJ for recognizing how crucial this matter is and for honoring the resistance of Mark, […]
MySpace to ‘block sex offenders’
MySpace to ‘block sex offenders’: Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and block US sex offenders from its site. Anyone else think it’s weird to specify “US” sex offenders? Like, what? Canadian child molesters are OK? Oh, who am I kidding. There are no child molesters in Canada. As we […]
Jailed media worldwide hits record: U.S. watchdog
Jailed media worldwide hits record: U.S. watchdog (Reuters): Reuters – The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work rose for the second year with Internet bloggers and online reporters now one third of those incarcerated, a U.S.-based media watchdog said on Thursday. This article mentions Josh Wolf, a videoblogger and friend of mine who […]
Review: Lirael
Review of Lirael, by Garth Nix: “Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr” (Garth Nix) Summary: This is a young adult novel, the second in the Abhorsen series. Last year, I enjoyed Sabriel quite a lot– enough that I read a book in an entirely different series by Nix by accident. Lirael is a daughter of the […]
Welcome!
Hi, this is mortaine. I have a gazillion blogs and online journals, including several mediablogs (video and podcasting). This one, however, is the general blog. You see, I’ve recently realized that I really need to focus my blogging efforts. So that’s what I’m doing here. This blog will not be ad-free, but I make a […]