Tweet Societal discourse has coarsened everywhere, but name calling seems to proliferate on the web. Ad hominem attacks are the order of the day. Even the most basic disagreements can inspire slurs.  The slings can take you by surprise, as website founder and editor  Shawn Williams recently discovered. @shawnpwilliams Yeah, you’re a dumb n****r. When [...]

Tweet Carnegie Mellon is sharing its lectures on building an iPad app. You can download the lectures from the school’s iTunes Store. Did I mention it’s free? You’ll need to know HTML and CSS to get started, but this is a course for beginners. I’ll try to learn thru the lectures, and I’ll blog about [...]

Tweet Go to the CameraSim Blog and play with all the simulators. Just click the post headlines to find them. Learning DSLR photography can be a painful experience, especially when it comes to determining exposure by manipulating aperture,ISO and shutter speed. But CameraSim makes it all better again. This simulator lets you play with the [...]

Tweet The Cleveland Collage Project aims to assemble portrait of Greater Cleveland that is inclusive, accurate, nuanced and complete. It’s my reaction to the Rust Belt coverage I’ve seen in national media like the Washington Post, the New York Times and CBS. I’m not saying the stories weren’t accurate. I’m saying they were framed. What [...]

Tweet Like any business, an independent journalist needs a slogan, if only to reinforce the brand. I happen to believe a slogan should be more than a snappy string of words. A good slogan should encapsulate the truth and function as a directive. With that in mind,  I’ve changed my Facebook, Twitter and Blog titles [...]

Tweet From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., you’ll be redirected to the SOPAStrike site. I’ll be taking notes in pencil and writing a post for Thursday.  See you on Thursday.

Tweet Koo, the the self-taught filmmaker who publishes the No Film School blog sent an email that urged his subscribers to create a website. As he points out: “There are a lot of skilled people out there that no one knows about. This is the hard part! The film industry — and many creative industries, [...]

Tweet Things have slowed down from this summer’s hectic pace. I’ve settled in with my Canon T2i, my Zoom H4n and my accessories. I’m no longer buying; I’m practicing. I’ve finished “Hard Time on the Unemployment Line,” a multimedia package on the employment problems of African American male ex-offenders. And I’m doing a rewrite; the [...]

Tweet This week’s photo came from the weekly slide show on Clevelandheights.patch.com The race was a fundraiser for the Diana Hyland Miracle Fund. The organization, founded to memorialize Diana Hyland, has raised more than $1 million for research into metastatic breast cancer.  

Tweet On Friday, I noticed folks stopping along the street to take pictures. I finally looked up, and saw several Cleveland skyscrapers swaddled in fog while other parts of the sky were bright and sunny. “If I only had my camera,” I said. Then I looked at the passenger seat in the front. There was [...]