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The Fourth and Fifth Estates

By Daedalus Howell | March 29th, 2009
A couple weeks back, a Sonoma Index-Tribune reader opined about the press in a letter to the editor in which he errantly referred to us as the “third estate.” We in the press are actually the fourth estate, so named because the first three were already the clergy, the nobility and the commoners – in [...]
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From GunBun to Gayot

By Daedalus Howell | February 26th, 2009
Yes, ’twas I who wrote the January/February cover story on Gundlach-Bunschu Winery for Vineyard and Winery Management Magazine. Winery scion Jeff Bundschu is a veritable quote machine in the interesting position of maintaining four generations of family legacy while aggressively embracing the future (I once produced a Gun-Bun tribute video for the Sonoma Valley Vintner’s [...]
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I Heart Darwin

By Daedalus Howell | February 14th, 2009
Apropos that the California Academy of Science would launch its NightLife series of evening events sandwiched between Darwin Day (an international celebration of science and reason) and Valentine’s Day, the heart-shaped holiday that induces flights of romantic fancy through casual doping with phenylethylamine, the so-called “love-chemical” found in chocolate. It was date-night in the City [...]
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Newsroom of the Future

By Daedalus Howell | February 3rd, 2009
This is my mash note to Mitch Joel, president of Montréal-based digital marketing agency Twist Image, whose blog, “Six Pixels of Separation,” is currently my mental vitamin. I discovered Joel’s blog when I googled “How to build a media empire” during a recent fit of megalomania and was delighted to find his informative post entitled, affirmingly, [...]
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Word of Mouth

By Daedalus Howell | November 19th, 2008
When one plays on my side of the media game, one ends up on a lot of e-mail lists. Inasmuch as I’m often surprised to which lists my address has been sold, I’m sure the purchasers of my address are just as often surprised that I receive their cloying missives – who would surely rather I [...]
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Peter Coyote and Rod Lurie Chat

By Daedalus Howell | September 1st, 2007
The movie trailer voice over in my head presently sounds like this: “He thought he had left Hollywood behind for a quiet life as a wine country newspaperman… But Hollywood had another idea…” An orchestra spike, of course, follows as does the freeze frame, which I achieve but suddenly, inexplicably standing still. In Nomaville, this [...]
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