Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. As a newspaper man who started at the smallest newspaper in Mississippi and worked his way up to the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Vietnam War, he [...]

Posted May 2, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: competition, David Halberstam, dissemination, media, news writing, newspapers, speech, storytelling, television news, tv vs. newspapers. One Comment.

Bush speech mashups rock. From Google Video:

So, you wanna learn how to beatbox? GWB is back with another amazing performance. Surprisingly he is actually very good.

Posted September 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: awesome, beatbox, beatboxen bush, bush, bush beatbox, cheney, cool, funny, george bush, george w, george w bush, hilarious, lol, mashup, speech, stupid, w, weapons. 2 Comments.

Today I discovered (thank you Ryan) Kareem Elnahal’s speech as valedictorian of Mainland Regional High School and I discovered new hope, new faith in our country’s future. When high school students can step up and speak truth to power, as Elnahal did so well, I become a believer in the strength of human spirit. “We [...]

Posted July 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: american education, critical thinking, criticism, education, John Taylor Gatto, Kareem Elnahal, public education, public schools, speech, valedictorian. One Comment.

I was especially young and impressionable when I discovered Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, but I still claim it’s required reading for anybody who’s read more than one post here at MaisonBisson. That’s self selection at work, but let me put it this way: unless you’re the only consumer of the things you [...]

Posted June 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: commencement address, design, Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman, engineering, Nielsen Norman Group, Poetry of Everyday Things, speech, usability. One Comment.