Brilliant editorial cartoonist and OU journalism professor Doug Marlette, who lived here in Tulsa, died this week on his way to encourage students performing his play at a Mississippi high school. Here are excerpts from the commencement address he gave in 2005 to another high school graduating class. Here’s his opinion piece in Salon about the Islamic cartoons in Denmark last year.
He’ll be missed.
What America apparently needs now is:
Financial information magnate and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as a presidential candidate, and
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch as the arbiter of editorial for the Wall Street Journal.
Meanwhile, danah Boyd seems to have hit a national nerve with her observations on “hegemonic teens” and “subaltern teens” and their choice of social networking sites.
Information warfare in a variety of theaters?
Yesterday was that “Do Libraries Innovate” session at ALA (which I’m hoping to see blogged elsewhere soon by a participant), so in the meantime here’s some additional evidence from Emory that they darn well do.
Update: And this morning there’s a nice summary of the session from the Hidden Peanuts blog and (two days later) the LITA blog version. Read more…
