Joe Flood

Is reading online actually reading? An article in the New York Times recently addressed that very subject, profiling the reading habits of teenagers and their parents. Many educators are concerned that kids would rather read off a glowing screen than dead trees. What kind of effect is this having on the ability to concentrate and absorb [...]

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I took the StrengthsFinder 2.0 test. It asks you a series of questions on how you like to work, how you get along with other people and how you’ve organized your life. You have 20 seconds to answer each question because they want your gut responses, without a lot of thinking. The same kind of [...]

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Hey, I really can blog on my iPhone!

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I’ve been involved with the DC Shorts Film Festival as a film and screenplay judge for the past couple years. It’s such a good time.  The movies are interesting, the parties are awesome and there’s a very friendly, constructive buzz about the whole affair. This isn’t Hollywood - these are real people, just like you, who make [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
Murky Coffee Strikes Low Blow
As any visitor to DC can attest, this area is not known for customer service. Still, threatening a customer’s privates is probably not the way to encourage repeat visits. 

The New Yorker Pretends to be the Onion
My friend Colin takes on the whole Obama/New Yorker controversy and [...]

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Ted Leonsis, rich with AOL money has been plowing his considerable fortune into the documentary business.  Today, he launched a new web site called SnagFilms that allows you to watch great documentaries for free online. One of the first docs available is DIG! This should be required watching for anyone who thought it would be [...]

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It’s been a busy summer and I’ve continued to write and enter screenplays in contests.
Accept All Changes
This somewhat saccharine short script is about a romance between a bike courier and a bored technical writer. I was inspired to write this after being a judge for the DC Shorts Short Screenplay Contest. After judging other people’s [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
Ghost Bike in Honor of Alice Swanson
This was an awful tragedy in an area I know well. A young woman on a bike was killed by a garbage truck near Dupont Circle.
Metro Station Prostitution Ring
They won’t give you change. They can’t get the trains to run on time.  But, they’ll [...]

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This is 2008.  Everyone these days has a blog.  Yet, within some sectors of government, there is resistance to using this not-so-new communications tool.  Why?  What are the “perceived risks”?
We don’t trust our employees.  This comes across in two ways.  
First, some federal agencies block all social networking sites (YouTube, MySpace) and this includes any [...]

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Schmap publishes a series of local city guides.  They found some of my pictures of DC and elsewhere on Flickr and used them (with my permission) in their local guides.  They just released Schmap Guides for the iPhone, basically iPhone optimized versions of their guides.
What was slick and considerate of them was that they emailed me [...]

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