RIP Walter Cronkite

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
- Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

Walter Cronkite has died at 92.

Broadcast Yourself

The video ain't much to look at, but I just tried Qik, which allows you to live stream video from your mobile phone to the Qik Web site. That video is broadcast publicly (unless you choose otherwise), and automatically saved to your profile. Set up, as the name suggest, was very quick, and operating the installed application from my cell, astonishingly easy. I'd say the implications of this sort of technology for citizen journalism are huge.

RIP Tim Russert

Big Tim Russert died today, way too young for such a talented and gregarious journalist and gentleman. Apparently, Russert paused mid-narration and died of a heart attack.

The most extraordinary thing about him was that he just had such unparalleled empathy for whoever he was talking with. You never had the feeling he was trying to get somebody, he just wanted to get them to talk and wanted to get the record straight and his emotional self was as strong as his intellect. As a journalist there was such a strength of his person who everyone who knew him knew. He was just beloved. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go Bills.

Russert's NYT obit

Charlie 2.0

Charlie Rose has a new site, which is chock-full of great interviews. There are seven interviews with one of my favorite authors Martin Amis alone.

Only thing I can't figure out: why is it so darn hard to get to a larger view of each video? The results lead to these tiny little screen, which activate at the same size when you click on them. But when you click on "comments," you get a much larger, user-friendly version of the video with comments below. Huh? Bad usability. If I'm overlooking something obvious, someone please let me know.