Tag Archives: Scott Rosenberg
MediaBugs, Berkeley-based start-up, launches today
Today marks the launch of MediaBugs, an online error-reporting service based in Berkeley which will help to monitor Bay Area media for errors and problems.
MediaBugs is the brainchild of Berkeley resident Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon, and author of two books: Dreaming in Code and Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming and Why It Matters. Advisers on the project include Dan Gillmor, Bill Gannon and Lane Becker.
Unlike fact-checking operation Politifact, which … Continue reading »
Scott Rosenberg in conversation with Jon Carroll
Looking for a little stimulus of the mind this evening? Perhaps a laugh too. Jon Carroll, he of the daily, eminently readable, Chronicle column, will be “in conversation” with Scott Rosenberg at the Berkeley Rep tonight at 7pm.
Rosenberg (pictured left), author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What it’s Becoming and Why it Matters, is a prolific blogger as well as co-founder of Salon Media Group and Salon.com. Hi current projects include MediaBugs which aims to be … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 1.20.10
Berkeley architect and Maybeck author Kenneth H. Cardwell has died [BAHA]
Scott Rosenberg launches media commentary website [Media Critics]
UC Regents approve $320 million retrofit of Cal Memorial Stadium [CC Times]
Teacher unions oppose petitions for two new charter schools [Daily Planet]
Fourteen shuttle bus contract protesters arrested outside UC [Berkeley Voice]
KALW launches digital Bay Area news magazine Crosscurrents[KALW]
[Photo: The Claremont Hotel by alexrez5/Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
The Berkeley Wire: 11.3.09
Berkeley’s Corso Restaurant named a Top 10 East Bay foodie haunt [Diablo Magazine]
The audacity! And how did they lift them? The Elmwood’s traditional giant pumpkins are stolen [Daily Californian]
Berkeley’s Kermit Lynch on why he’s like Paris’ Gare de Lyon [The Oregonian]
Scott Rosenberg to speak about blogging, journalism and his new baby, MediaBugs [Wordyard]
West Berkeley residents living near steel plant to be tested for pollutants [Daily Californian]
[Photo of Halloween dragon on Russell Street: Tracey Taylor]
Pixar’s Brad Bird in conversation with Jon Carroll
The Berkeley Rep, aglow with the success of its latest smash, American Idiot, and from the general recognition of its artistic prowess, is also holding what promises to be an entertaining series of “conversations” hosted by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll.
First up, on November 9, is Pixar‘s Brad Bird (pictured left), the internationally acclaimed director of award-winning movies including Ratatouille and The Incredibles.
Bird also wrote and directed the 1999 feature, The Iron Giant, which in … Continue reading »
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