Believe it or not, there are hiking trails within Los Angeles’ city limits. With 53 miles of trails, Griffith Park has something for nearly every hiker.
Tara Parker-Pope and the Venomous Bloggers
A Google search of Tara Parker-Pope generates nearly 99 thousand hits. The New York Times health columnist clearly has a large Digital Footprint. You can find her most recent Well blog, which she updates daily. Google also takes you to her older column at The Wall Street Journal, and her book on hormone replacement therapy. […]
Nuts Over ACORN
The Twitterverse went nuts over one news story this week. Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe posed as a prostitute and a pimp, respectively, in an attempt to expose the dark side of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Giles and O’Keefe traveled across the country to various ACORN offices asking for advice […]
The Lie Heard ‘Round the World
We live in an age where Twitter can tell us more about an event or topic than many of us thought possible.The Over three days after President Obama delivered his speech in defense of his plan for healthcare reform, the Twitterverse is still abuzz about that evening’s events. Most of the tweets, however, are not […]
Acts
The act of publishing no longer is a privilege for the few. With the widespread availability of the Internet, publishing has become a right for the many. This radical change has raised many issues and challenges for journalism.
Discovering Differences
What do the BBC, NPR, and Wired Science have in common? Well, beside the fact that I plan to follow these sites, not much.
Skid Row and a Safer City
“Six million spent for fifty additional cops on Skid Row … but only $5.7 million spent for homeless services CITYWIDE.” A poster emblazoned with those words stood against a wall in the Los Angeles Community Action Network’s office. Pete White founded the Los Angeles Community Action Network in 2004 to fight for the rights of […]