- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Media
Did you get a free newspaper on Sunday?
August 25, 2008 – 8:42 am
I don’t subscribe to the Charleston Post and Courier. I read it, though. Like a lot of people, I read it online.
So I was surprised yesterday to find on my driveway a copy of the Sunday P&C. I looked around a saw that my neighbors also had copies on their driveways. I don’t remember seeing [...]
It’s really, really real!
August 19, 2008 – 8:27 am
There’s an interesting piece over at LiveScience called “Monsters, Ghosts and Gods: Why We Believe.” It was inspired by the recent string of weirdness.
That string began with the so-called Montauk Monster on Long Island, then a Big Foot, then this creature found in Texas last year that the discoverer swore was the Chupacabra, or goat [...]
Porn is mainstream? Not so!
August 15, 2008 – 6:25 am
I thought this was true, but evidently the evidence says otherwise.
This blogger gathered statistical data to suggest consumption of porn hovers around 58 percent. Broken down by gender, between 30 and 35 percent of men consume porn. That includes porn found online and in print. If you look at print, the numbers show a drastic [...]
Blogs are fine, but newspapers are better
August 12, 2008 – 9:35 am
This is from Mark Potts’ blog, Recovering Journalist. He’s been tracking the decline of American daily newspapers. He’s compiled a database of all the job cuts and setbacks (pdf) in the industry for the past couple of years. While this looks scary — really, really scary — we should keep in mind that this is [...]
Emerging technologies good for traditional newspapers that learn to use them
August 11, 2008 – 7:45 pm
City Paper staff writers do this a lot these days. We’ve learned how to do it. And there’s surely more to learn. Instead of holding stories, ideas, nuggets of information for the next week’s print paper, we run them in a blog. Sometimes these get feedback. Sometimes, they serve as a virtual first draft. It [...]
The Onion’s Art
August 5, 2008 – 11:29 am
This is funny, but it’s also brilliant. Headline: “Rules Grammar Change.”
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So Cuil
August 4, 2008 – 9:21 am
Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costello, and other Google alums have used their insider knowledge to create a competing search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). About $33 million has already been invested into the company. With 120 billion pages, Costello says Cuil’s search capabilities are the most comprehensive on the web. We’re pretty skeptical. The [...]
Facebook facelift
August 4, 2008 – 9:21 am
The social networking war continues as Facebook unveiled another redesign July 28, which includes a new expanded “wall.” For all of you Facebook addicts out there, this new “wall” now has elements previously found on the mini-feed, as well as comment boxes, etc. The Associated Press reported that Facebook has been warning users of the [...]
What’s wrong with arts journalism? Plenty
July 29, 2008 – 9:30 am
Doug McLennan, the editor of ArtsJournal, the most comprehensive and respected digest of national and international arts news, writing, and reporting, recently outlined what’s wrong and what’s right with arts journalism. It’s a subject that affects everyone, I believe, especially those who pour their hearts, guts, and money into the arts. Please take the time [...]
The latest in net neutrality
July 24, 2008 – 7:57 am
Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said last week he would seek “enforcement action” against Comcast Corp. for slowing down internet traffic due to users downloading movies and other media, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “You can’t limit consumers that way,” he told a news conference in Washington, D.C. The announced is seen [...]
