Brad Rourke’s Blog
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Reading With Their feet
Monday I wrote about the crumbling “paper” part of the news business. Here’s more evidence. My hometown newspapers, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press (I was a Freep reader growing up) are curtailing their home delivery to just three days per week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. David Hunke, chief executive of the company that…
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A Dozen Years Of Blogging
The other day I got to looking back at all the online activity in my past, and saw how entwined my day-to-day life has been with the Web since way back. First off, I recall I started a blog in 1996, a year before the word was invented. In 1996, during the Clinton-Dole presidential race,…
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Crumbling Paper
Seth Godin points out that bloggers aren’t going to be winning any Pulitzers — unless they are posting at major news sites already. He says: So, Tom Friedman can win a well-deserved prize for writing what is essentially a blog for the NY Times, but if he goes off on his own, he’s out. What…
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Home Economics
I’ve been staying up late, working into the wee hours, and all day on weekend days, crunching to get a project done. It’s got me thinking about working at home versus working at an office — and how the lines are blurring more and more. My own “work life” is tightly integrated into my “home…
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Changing The Meaning Of "Community Work"
I do a lot of work with organizations trying to change how they relate to — and work with — communities. As a result, I write a lot of reports about “changing work habits in order to make change in communities” and whatnot. There’s a challenge in writing such things. Often, it is hard to…
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Changing The Meaning Of "Community Work"
I do a lot of work with organizations trying to change how they relate to — and work with — communities. As a result, I write a lot of reports about “changing work habits in order to make change in communities” and whatnot. There’s a challenge in writing such things. Often, it is hard to…
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Two Hours Of Facebook
President-elect Obama’s much-vaunted speechwriter, Jon “not that one” Favreau, has been all over the blogosphere for the last week. Seems the 27-year-old got himself photographed at a recent party in an unfortunate position with a life sized cardboard cutout of the next Secretary of State. (That’s Favreau on the left. The guy in the hat…
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Two New Items From Me
Friends– Since many of you who read my occasional commentary are, in fact, friends, I wanted to just let you know of two things that are new in my world. My Band’s New CD Is Complete And Available For Purchase As you probably know, I am in a rock band called The West End. We…
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The Will To Power In US All
The night of my 21st birthday, so many years ago, I was with friends in the Big City near my college. One of us had borrowed a car to get the group into town. Around 1:30 am, as we were about to go home, it conked out. The handful of us were standing around, wondering…
