Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
There’s a lot of animated chatter among some of my favorite journalists over the redesign of their publication’s site. Last week, the Atlantic Monthly rolled out what appears to the casual reader as a slight update of the IA, along with some major changes to the way that blogs are integrated. Reader reaction was anything [...]
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Thomas McGuane takes a shot at describing what it’s like to land a tarpon: The closest thing to a tarpon in the material world is the Steinway piano. The tarpon, of course, is a game fish that runs to extreme sizes, while the Steinway piano is merely an enormous musical instrument, largely wooden and manipulated [...]
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Amidst the many changes around and within journalism, the journalist — as an actor in creating the news — is becoming more recognizable, identifiable, and individual. For instance, I’m “friends” with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof. (Okay, it’s on Facebook, but still). Kristof himself is a media decathlete: In addition to being a NY Times columnist, he has a [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
