Julianne Brienza
I’ve done another interview for the Pink Line Project, this time with Julianne Brienza, Executive Director of the Capital Fringe Festival.
I met Julianne several years ago, when Fringe was just starting out. It’s amazing and inspiring to see how far she’s come. Fringe is definitely something that way too serious DC needs. As she [...]
Tags:art·capfringe·DC·music·pinkline·theater·washington
I’m going to be writing for the Pink Line Project. What’s Pink Line? Describing itself as “a catalyst for the culturally curious”, the site is a guide to DC’s art and cultural scene. If you’re looking to attend fun art parties in Washington, and learn more about the arts, it’s a great site to check [...]
Tags:art·creativity·DC·film·murderinoceanhall·novels·Photography·pinklineproject·washington·Writing
A Guide to the Recovering Job Market
I’ve had the experience of looking for work during the worst economic periods of the last twenty years. As a recent college graduate, I passed out resumes during the post-Cold War sag of the early 1990s. I was an unemployed web editor following the collapse of the dotcom bubble [...]
Tags:career·DC·washington
Call me old-fashioned, but I think that one of life’s joys is to sit down with a good newspaper. Though I’m someone who’s spent a career working on web sites, there’s some really special about a quiet morning with a paper. And some coffee.
A newspaper is easier on the eyes than a glowing screen. It [...]
Tags:books·newspapers·washington·web·Writing
I attended FOSE (a government technology expo in DC) last week and saw David Pogue’s keynote. He’s the technology columnist for the New York Times. Here are my notes from the session with the three big “megatrends” Pogue sees with technology plus some interesting links to check out:
1. Phone and Internet will Merge
In the future, [...]
Tags:washington·Web 2.0
