An old boss of mine turned 100 years old this past weekend -- The Daily Mississippian , my college newspaper and the first place I earned my...

I've worked in journalism for 15+ years now, but rarely have I enjoyed the kind of immediacy I do with my new online job, where all it t...

... So I haven't been blogging as much as I once did, because, well, blogging is on the wane, says The New York Times , so it must be tr...

I love comic books and have since age 11 or so, but if there's anything I love almost as much as reading comics it's reading about c...

...Sorry, not a real post, but a few of you might find this other blog post interesting as it talks a bit about what I'm doing in my da...

So for about five minutes there, it seemed David Bowie was going to be playing New Zealand and Australia's Big Day Out festival next ye...

So a friend who visited the US recently brought me back a copy of the good ol' San Francisco Chronicle and, when I put it side-by-side ...

Good god, what a morning to work in a newsroom. There was a lot of last-minute shuffling, rearranging and shock as there is only when the bi...

When you start off a Monday morning with a migraine so bad you think your eyeballs are going to explode, it's never a good sign. Ah wel...

This week in television shows: We've finally gotten the HBO TV series "True Blood" on the air down here, starring New Zealan...

...Another day, another slew of terrible news for the newspaper industry . The Seattle P-I joins the Rocky Mountain News in the papers who...

"I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher said. “You know, war is hell....

I read the news today, oh boy... I don't talk an awful lot about behind-the-scenes stuff in newspapers, well, because I work in them and...

The campaign that never ends Yeesh. Cheerful thought of the day: Can you believe it's still six months until the November presidential ...

30 Days of Bloggery: Questions Answered Well, Roger gave me a few questions to answer the other day, so here we go: Where do you get your n...

Of newspapers, vampires and the Tardis Random thoughts: • Work, work, work, work. It's been good but extraordinarily busy these last cou...

So it begins... First day tomorrow at the new gig . Excited but a bit jittery. Digging all the "work clothes" out of the dusty cl...

Meanwhile, in the world of paying journalism ...So if you're interested in seeing a sample of some of that freelancing I'm doing lat...

Chortle chortle chortle ...My god, I leave America and the Democrats win Congress , Rumsfeld is axed and Britney Spears is finally back on...

LIFE: Adios, News-Review So today's my last day at work as we begin the long and winding journey that takes us to New Zealand. It...