Chris Boese's Weblogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1165522013-02-22T23:24:31-05:00TypePadRebooting this blogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b71869e2017c370aed56970b2013-02-22T23:24:31-05:002013-02-22T23:24:31-05:00Hey, I've been away a while, but I'm starting a new project, and decided this might be a good place to track the ideas as they all come in quickly and connect in all kinds of unusual (and serendipitous!) ways. I've got the RebelMouse post on the top, because I'm most active in social media and microblogging on Twitter. But meanwhile, rationalizations, integrity, honesty, and authenticity is much on my mind. So let's kick it off right, with this great video while the moon is void of course. Signifying nothing.Chris BoeseR.I.P. Geraldine Ferraro, a feminist pioneertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b71869e2014e6021607d970c2011-03-26T18:09:13-04:002011-03-26T20:18:05-04:001984. I was in college. The '70s feminist movement was more than a memory. It was present tense, active, on campus and off. For a time, I was a president of the Student Feminist Alliance. I was an appointed student representative on the University Commission on the Status of Women. I attended and shot (as a photojournalist) sporting events that would not have been allowed to exist, would not have been funded, if it weren't for Title IX. (Even so, the women's basketball team wasn't allowed to play in the best fieldhouse on campus, except for big tournament games. Not...Chris BoeseHappy Birthday, Stephen Hawking!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b71869e20147e164fb60970b2011-01-08T22:59:07-05:002011-01-08T23:05:19-05:00And look! The whole Errol Morris film on A Brief History of Time is up on Google Video! (I loved that movie... just hearing the opening bars of the incredible Philip Glass score sets me off). You know, this is probably awful, but you know what I miss? The newer computer voices have more inflection than that early computer voice that I just always associated with Stephen Hawking. Even with other voices to choose from, I always picked the one that sounded like Stephen Hawking, just so I could pretend that I had the famous physicist talking to me inside...Chris BoesePerhap the most important editorial I've read this yeartag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b71869e20133f3637cdd970b2010-08-29T01:09:06-04:002010-08-29T01:59:47-04:00Op-Ed Columnist - Bob Herbert - Glenn Beck in Washington - NYTimes.com. Thank you, Bob Herbert! Also, a belated thank you to Alexander Zaitchik, whose book on Glenn Beck came out this year, Common Nonsense. It's a great read, with terrific research, but I am biased, as I helped him out on one particular chapter. Which is why I know how much time he put into digging up and documenting all kinds of previously unknown things about Beck's life. I have my own academic obsession going back to the 1990s. I worked on papers analyzing the polemical rhetoric of the...Chris BoeseChuck Roberts leaves CNN's Headline News (or HLN, or CNN2, or whatever you want to call it)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b71869e2013485e59181970c2010-07-31T15:37:00-04:002011-03-26T19:36:11-04:00Link: Chuck Roberts Departing HLN - mediabistro.com: TVNewser. Knew there was a reason I held on to this silly blurry snapshot I grabbed from Election Night, 2004, with the incomparable, witty and razor-sharp Chuck Roberts holding down the anchor chair as the results flew in fast and furious after 7P ET. More blurry snapshots of a wild night covering the 2004 national election at the CNN Center in Atlanta after the jump. My Messy Workstation. Yeah, they still gave ordinary writers with cell phones and live Internet connections access to the real-time exit poll data that year! Put a stop...Chris Boese