Erik Marshall

Here are some Sunday morning links foryou, many of them local.

NPR has been runnin a lot of stories about Detroit latel in their “Remaking Michigan, Retooling Detroit” series. Of particular interest is Detroit’s Big Screen Image Problem, Why Can’t Detroit Cash in on its Music Scene? and Why I Love Detroit, and This Sculpture. Last Monday on “The Story” Dick Gordon interviewed Jerry Balanger, owner of Park Bar in Detroit, who has a very interesting perspective on business in Detroit, including a fun alternate currency he invented.

Speaking of alternate currencies. here’s an article about it by Douglas Rushkoff, who also has a show and podcast called “The Media Squat” on WFMU.

Back to local, I just discovered this blog page on Wayne State’s site. I looked at a few, and they are interesting, but this is puzzling to me. I don’t know who these undergrads are or how they were selected to blog on Wayne’s main page. There is no “about” section and no contact info for the administrator. What is this?

HASTAC is hosting a discussion called Blogging and Twetting Academia, which has not yet had a ton of activity, but what is there is interesting.