Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

A Cross post from the AVS Forum . I was just thinking along these lines the other day. I haven't been into a movie theatre in ages. The last movie I saw was "Ray" in the second run at the local art theatre. Now I don't have a home theatre per se - but I do have a Moto PVR and a large screen (27" TV) and my toys in the office are getting set up with a PVR software and a Haupagge TV tuner. Most of the stuff I like to watch is from the IFC and various other channels - very few from the main networks. And I've recently invested in a Portable Media Device Are Home Theaters Killing Off Movie Theaters? - AVS Forum : "With Popcorn, DVD's and TiVo, Moviegoers Are Staying Home By LAURA M. HOLSON The New York Times May 27, 2005 LOS ANGELES, May 26 - Matthew Khalil goes to the movies about once a month, down from five or six times just a few years ago. Mr. Khalil, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, prefers instead to watch old movies an...

Road kill on the information Superhighway? 

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The Website boingboing.net has reported that the Globe and Mail is publishing their current edition totally on-line because of a strike. Go to Boingboing Meanwhile - the National Post's Lorne Gunther apologizes for Blog errors on his site and the Western Standard Shotgun muses about how useless the media is. I mention all of these in the same post because they indicate to me where the old dead tree craft of the "Press" is going. More and more, I'm seeing blogs from all points of the political spectrum and various topics. I seem to be spending more time reading them than looking at newspapers or magazines. As an old news junkie - I do freely admit I went to Journalism school back in the misty past, back when Journalism meant notebook, typewriter and 35mm camera - and spent some time as one of the ink-stained wonks that turned out the daily fishwrap, I'm enjoying seeing the old medium trying to find relevance in the 21st century. Orginally, I started this blog ...