That huge house on U Street may be long gone, but there’s a burnin’ in my heart that just won’t follow it into the sunset. In other words, I got the fever for a party, the kind that tears the paint off the walls and the pants off the guests. The solution? Outsource it!
Thursday, June 12th, 6 pm — Have a Beer with E.politics at The Reef
Yes, in the proud tradition of searching high and low for a tax write-off, I’m throwing a party on the main floor of the The Reef in Adams Morgan after work on Thursday, June 12th.
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A conversation with the multimedia editor for a Hong Kong-based broadcast entity sparked an interesting chain of thought today — one way for traditional media people to think about the media convergence and the internet is this: stop thinking of things in terms of delivery channel and start thinking of them in terms of media type.
In the offline world, massive gulfs yawn between the worlds of radio, print and television. Not only has each evolved its own approaches, tools and methods, but they’re tribes as well, since relatively few people appear in more than one medium. (For instance, how many actual TV reporters, as opposed to pundits, started in print? Not nearly as many as started in broadcast, I suspect.) In the online world, by contrast, drawing distinctions among channels is meaningless, since audio, video and text are delivered the same way: they’re just slightly different flavors of digital content.
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