Category: Participatory Journalism

  • 9/12 – The Day After

    Just ran a few numbers to put things in perspective: There were around 9000 casualties (dead and wounded) from the attacks on 09/11/2001. There have been around 60,000 (American) service men and women killed or injured as a result of the “War on Terror”. That does not count any Iraqi, Pakistani, or Afghan civilians. Nor…

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  • Happy New Year 2015

    Thank you everyone for returning to Anthurian. So far my viewership is up 2,500% from the previous week with a high of 78 (!) views. Oh, I can smell the IPO and book deal now. I guess I can’t go back now though; the haggis is in the fire.

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  • Why I Am Leaving Facebook

    I originally posted this to Facebook on November 29, 2014 but re-posting here as a way to re-start Anthurian.com. I do not know what this site will turn into or how often I post but the bigger experiment is how long I can away from social media, Facebook especially. Here’s to 2015 and new starts……

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  • On Hero Worship and the New Reality in Athletics

    If I am reading this correctly then Lance Armstrong admits to doping but contends he was allowed to get away with it due to complicity among the higher-ups. Basically the UCI, USPS, (and NBC?) was covering up Armstong’s doping (to increase American viewership of the Tour de France?). For me the story isn’t about who…

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  • Marketing Hype vs. Reality: Large Breweries Struggle While Craft Breweries Flourish

    If you listen to the Big Boys (AB Inbev, MillerCoors, etc.) then the beer industry in America is in trouble. Despite going merger-crazy and leveraging economies-of-scale, macrobreweries in the US (and around the world) are in trouble. For example, Budweiser is having to give away free beer and “freshen” its image while the number of…

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