Is It A Re-Gift if I Got Myself The Gift to Give Away?
Playing the Secret (not really secret) Santa game, I scanned the gift selection for something that I wanted to take home at the end of the final steals. I decided I wanted the cooking pans, but, I knew there was almost no chance I would get the pans.…
Jeff Jarvis on The Spiegel Scandal
A good take from Jeff Jarvis on the scandal at one of Germany’s flagship The Spiegel following the revelations that the news magazine’s top reporter, Claas Relotius, was a serial inventor of stories – a fraud. He was the CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014, “Earlier this…
On Forgetting People from High School
It’s happening more often, I’m encountering people I went to high school with, but no longer remember. It’s been over 15 years, and this should be expected. Nonetheless, each time it happens, I feel guilty about not remembering. We’re now at the stage in our lives where a…
It's Easier to Write About Others, Than It is Ourselves
My biography half-jokes that I write in “first person to ensure you can see my bias – I tend to like myself”. I wrote that in part to make light of my discomfort with writing about myself. A discomfort that I was reminded of the past few weeks…
The Crash of JoeyColeman.ca
Update your blog Joey, get back to the passion of blogging Joey! My internal voice tells me this numerous times each week. My poor orphaned blog, which crashed sometime in the past week or maybe month. Maybe if I were updating my blog, as I often say I…
The Daily Show Finds Its Strive, Or I Got Used to Change
During the past few months, I’ve really enjoyed The Daily Show again. TDS lost me in the transition from Jon Stewart to Trevor Noah. Noah seemed (to me at least) too unsure of himself, too guarded in his jokes, the “correspondents” similarly did not appeal to me. Now,…
Podcasts and the Slow Democracy Movement
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to create an informed local municipal-focused civic affairs discussion for years; it’s one of the primary goals of my journalism. Podcasting provides the opportunity to do so, and Lawrence Lessig conveys many of the ideas I’m considering on his blog: Podcasting…
Age Shall Not Wear Them, Nor The Years Condemn
These words carry greater meaning for me with each passing year; as I watch my friends who served and came back age, yet those who did not return remain frozen in time. I look back on photos of some of those friends who I was fortunate enough to…
The Post Sitting on The Couch
I never watched FRIENDS consistently in the 90s, never downloaded and binge watched during the 00s when I finally watched all those late 90s shows I wanted. I’ve started watching from the start, since FRIENDS trivia is a thing presently, and my friends teenage children regularly make pop…
Coffee Meet-up Overload
I managed to get a lot of writing done last night, the challenge is that the posts I’m writing are still not complete. Sigh. I’m continuing to pick up my pace post-election, the challenge now is that I’m finding myself juggling many coffee meet-ups, and not finding time…