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Twice-monthly column published in the North Bay Bohemian, concerned with media, marketing and tech.

Oscar’s All a’Twitter

By Daedalus Howell | March 7th, 2010
Come February of every year, scads of entertainment journalists engage in a ritual peculiar to their beat. They apply for press credentials to cover the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Academy Awards. An awards ceremony for motion pictures presented on television epitomizes traditional media. If the gold statuette was wrapped in newspaper like [...]
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From Kindling to Kindle: Will the future of reading affect the future of writing?

By Daedalus Howell | February 22nd, 2010
James Joyce, it is said, became so disgruntled while drafting his first novel that he threw it on the fire. His girlfriend rescued the work-in-progress from the flames, and the subsequent rewrite became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Such acts of literary self-immolation and redemption could only occur in our once-analog [...]
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Web 3.0, the Pedantic Web

By Daedalus Howell | February 5th, 2010
No sooner has popular culture digested the term “Web 2.0” than the ante is upped by the next generation of the World Wide Web. Behold, “Web 3.0.” Um, yeah. This unfortunate protologism, doomed to eternal comparison to its pithy predecessor, proves the adage that “Good technologists borrow, great technologists steal and then add 1.” Also known as [...]
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