Archive for June, 2008
I decided to work a little bit on my book proposal today, which is going to look at vacation and traveling and every day life sorts of things. It’s based partly on an article I wrote for an upcoming issue of Budget Travel. In researching a bit, I read this ridiculous article today in Forbes, [...]
Filed under: Cultural miscellany | 2 Comments
Tags: authentic, authenticity, industry, tourism, travel, vacation
Mediabistro on columns
Huzzah! A short feature I wrote last week on getting a column has finally landed in Mediabistro. May I be the first to point out the obvious, that I loved talking with Joel Stein?
The next obvious thing would be to point out that a conversation I had for this very article with Rebecca Skloot resulted [...]
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Tags: blog, column, columns, Media, mediabistro, publication
The Phoenix New Times recently reprinted an article I wrote on the effect of having too much music on how we actually listen to it. Because this is the fourth time that the article has been reprinted (original here)–and it’s still sparking random comments on random music blogs–it seems safe to say that the influence of [...]
Filed under: News/current affairs, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: choice, culture, google, Internet, ipod, Media, music, newspaper, newspapers, psychology, Technology
An excerpt of an article I wrote for Psychology Today appeared in an article in the New York Times. I discovered that while I enjoy being referred to as Ms. Starr in print, I prefer my name in the byline. Next time, I’ll just write my own article on vacation for them.
Filed under: Personal rant/note, Publication news | Leave a Comment
Tags: advice, article, Media, New York Times, Psychology Today, travel, vacation
According to Newswise, a study recently published in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication by researchers at Ohio State University and UC Irvine “found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.” The report goes on to say that using instant messaging was often used for [...]
Filed under: Communication, Technology | 2 Comments
Tags: Behavior, Communication, IM, Instant Messaging, Technology, Work
Last week’s arteBA, the contemporary art fair in Buenos Aires, included a trio of discussions, “Altering the Tale,” Reactivating the Local Canon,” and “Towards a 21st c. Salon,” organized by Cuauhtémoc Medina. The Tate Modern’s associate curator of Latin American art considered those to be three of the most important issues in contemporary Latin American [...]
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Tags: art, Buenos Aires, contemporary art, Tate Modern
arteBA in the Guardian
I’m so excited! I’ve just begun writing for the Guardian, one of the dailies in London and a paper I’ve always greatly admired. My first piece was about arteBA, last weekend’s contemporary art fair.
Filed under: Publication news | 1 Comment
Tags: art, arteBA, articles, Buenos Aires
Over the weekend, I went to arteBA, Buenos Aires’ contemporary art fair, to enjoy it and write about it for the Guardian (UK). Later Friday night, I saw a few bands at a club named “CBGB,” including this one:
Please note that while this wasn’t a part of arteBA it damn well could have been, [...]
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Tags: Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Buffalo Bills, football, globalization, sports, t-shirts
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