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May 5th, 2010 I’ve been skirting a number of un-publicly-expressed goals of mine during the 2010 Blogathon, or so I’d like to say. I knew when I agreed to participate in the Blogathon that I’d run headlong into a passion of mine or two. Except when meeting a reporting deadline, I don’t believe in writing Read the rest of Hesitations May 3rd, 2010
Last Spring, I wrote a commentary about my personal experiences with transit in Los Angeles. An assignment for a class, it was something of a companion to the reporting I’d done for my master’s project, the work that
Read the rest of In Transit April 23rd, 2010 I agree that SEO isn’t about conforming to a robotic standard, but it’s also not about speaking to people, it’s about speaking to some sense of the mean average of what people are looking for. The thing is, if we want to succeed — both in reaching people and in drawing them back to our work — we can’t just be producing what the public is looking for, what the public wants to read. We must, we absolutely must tell the stories that the public doesn’t know it is looking for, that the public isn’t looking for, that the public hasn’t even conceptualized the terms for. If we don’t, in very short order we will tell fewer and fewer stories that matter, that impact society and we will lose not only all impact, but all value we are capable of offering the public. Read the rest of Telling the stories we aren’t searching for April 1st, 2010 Yesterday afternoon President Obama shocked the country when he announced plans to open parts of the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts to oil drilling. Though the Pacific Coast was left untouched, the move could open up huge expanses of ocean elsewhere. Many environmentalists treated the news as a betrayal and yet another delay in Read the rest of All Things Not Considered in NPR’s Oil Drilling Coverage January 5th, 2010 Today I leave Los Angeles for Portland, Oregon. As I do, I look forward to taking an as-yet determined path to my new home hundreds of miles north. I don’t know how exactly I’ll get to Portland, though I’ve set a few ground rules. I won’t set a firm date to get there. Though the trip could easily take as little as a day and a half, I don’t want to constrain myself to any schedule, lest I miss the world I pass through (you can help me get there, too). I may backtrack. I may make detours. I may decide to linger in one spot staring at the sky for hours. I may rush. I may wander. Which brings me to rule #2, perhaps the most exciting and most questionable part of my plans. To best experience the journey I plan to completely avoid freeways and even divided highways. Getting to Oregon from Southern California in January makes this a rather daunting task, particularly because I also plan to steer clear of the coast. As stunning as the coast is, I’ve seen much of it and hunger for a new path, at least this time around. Read the rest of Writing (and driving) gone wild November 25th, 2009 Finding Community | Stopping to Breathe | False divisions | Continuing the discussion | Other Voices I arrived in Los Angeles late Monday afternoon. As I landed, I watched the sunset turn the Santa Monica Mountains that golden hue they turn in late fall, caught glimpses of the skyscrapers Read the rest of Making the most of making the media November 2nd, 2009 The Ventura County Star reported Oct. 30 that Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen Reiser halted the demoliton of the Wagon Wheel hotel. The stay came after what seemed like the end of a long fight between developer Vince Daly and the San Buenaventura Conservancy. Many comments Read the rest of The eyesore, history and the untold story June 22nd, 2009 In the middle of the night I had it all figured out. In a journal rescued from stack of half-finished tomes, I penned thoughts about what I am doing here, free of school, free of work and ready to cast out on my own yet again. Writing with a sudden fervor, I Read the rest of Cooking Up Frustration June 10th, 2009 [Updated: In response to my critique, Behrens changed his headline and, as noted below and in his comment, he did use the terms "allegedly" and "according to the LAPD," so I'd be remiss not to correct my own mistake here] Sometimes it saddens me what other fellow members of the media — loosely defined — Read the rest of Trial by Blogger May 27th, 2009 As should be readily apparent, I haven’t posted to Lascher @ Large in some time. I’ve spent the past two months completing my master’s degree, a time during which I sacrificed this site to one last focus on academics. I’ve also taken some time to consider what my next career steps might Read the rest of Undercutting the competition |
      
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