Shahryar Rizvi

Tag: journalism

  • Dubai trip report

    http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I spent last week in Dubai. My first overseas trip since 2003. Dubai is essentially a tourist spot (Vegas much?). The buildings are like something out of cyberpunk media during its height in the late eighties and early nineties. Other people think the architecture is too contemporary and will date itself in time, but […]

  • Captured Journalist follow up

    Videobloggers Laura Ling and Euna Lee will be back home soon thanks to Bill Clinton. Great Job Bill!!! I can almost forgive you for NAFTA, the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, and Operation Infinite Reach if you get Ibrahim Jassam out of jail too.

  • Captured East Asian Woman Journalist Syndrome

    Is the media broken? I’m rarely inspired by what I see in the media. Television is supposed to be the most powerful medium—but TV news seems to be anything but powerful. Vanguard is trying to change that. We’re trying to provide knowledge and context about what’s happening in our world as opposed to just covering […]

  • Dallas Observing

    I’ve been in Dallas for three weeks. Here are some cool spots I found so far Recycled Books in Denton A pretty big and cool bookstore. They have a comics, DVD and audio selection.  I found some cool stuff there for good prices, including BSG season 1 for $20. El Rancho De Edith 112 E […]

  • The Frequency is Courage

    When I was in Dallas, I made it a mission to get comics since there are no dedicated comic stores in my area (If you think the Minnesota campuses of Faker and Nothing Better are desolate, you need to make the trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michgan). Among the various media I gorged on […]

  • Impressed

    Logan + Sath Efriken eksent + Lois Lane = Lara Logan

  • Stuff I as a journalist like

    #312 The Wire The "evacuate" clarification is etched in my memory. #181 Firefox #75 low pay #63 procrastinating #56 dressing differently #50 Google #38 NPR #32 press passes #26 writing a book #21 All the President’s Men Follow the Money, Luke. #19 readers’ feedback #15 reporter’s notebooks Mine is a moleskine version. I consider it […]

  • Victory for Size 10 dissidents

    SHOES IN THE AIR LIKE YOU REALLY GIVE A DAMN SIZE TEN UP LEMME HEAR YOU SAY YEAH POWER TO THE PEOPLE PUT YOUR SHOES IN THE AIR SIZE TEN HIGH LIKE YOU REALLY DO CARE

  • El futuro en sus manos

    I was both fascinated that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology in their election coverage and repulsed that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology. Their pandering to techies was just inane and a disservice to the technology they use If you don’t know what I am talking about. Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interface has been making […]