I’m just back from New Orleans, looking forward to armchair traveling this weekend. Reminder that Paula Lerner will be having her opening reception for her “Afghan Stories” project at the Griffin Museum in Stoneham, Ma., this Sunday afternoon. Another reminder, set your clocks back on Sunday morning so you’re on time. Opening reception and one-time [...]

The magazine 02138 folded today. According to mediabistro, in a statement released by 02138 owner Manhattan Media cited funding costs as too high. The final issue, already in production, will be an online-only item. Other mediabistro activity. I went to an all-media party at Bella Luna in Jamaica Plains neighborhood in Boston. Met Hartford Courant [...]

Dan Habib, a Concord Monitor alum and now a filmmaker in residence at the University of New Hampshire, will be at a free screening for his new documentary called Including Samuel at Brown University the day before elections in November (11/3). Movie explores the social and educational inclusion of people with disabilities. The tagline on [...]

Enough doom and gloom. After another week of market dips, I want some shallow fun. Enter a plucky British cell phone game called sub-plotting. For 50p you sign up to participate in a photo essay with complete strangers and no theme. Result is an oddly connected but utterly random story. Premise is once you receive [...]

If you are in Cambridge, Ma., check out Justin Ide’s images from Lesotho, Africa as part of a Harvard World Media project. Jennifer Furin – Partners in Health : Reacing out to the heart of the AIDS epidemic On view October 15 – November 5, 2008 at the Harvard Neighbors Loeb House 17 Quincy Street [...]

Hollywood’s 2001 movie follows detectives Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke around for 24 hours. While I look for gainful employment (trailing spouse, photo editor, life story synopsis here), I thought I’d take advantage of time. I signed up for a year’s subscription at Lynda, an online software training site. We all skill build. The question [...]

In 2007, James Nachtwey got $100,000 and one wish to change the world. He took that money and embarked on an 18 month/7 country project documenting the epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR-TB. You can watch and listen to him talk about his project while accepting the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) prize last year. A [...]

Convergence, integration, cross-media, inter-departmental collaboration. All sounds good but can a mid-size newspaper make any money at it? At monday note, Frederic Filloux, an editor for the Norwegian group Schibsted, debunks the myth that leaner, compact newsroom can produce a general news site that operates in the black. His suggestion: diversify for that elusive net [...]