Puzzling over privacy

When I went for a walk on the beach with my cousin a couple of Sundays ago, I did not expect to find myself in a Facebook video shot and shared by someone with more than 2,500 friends. We were at Clifton Beach, the most publicly accessible and over-developed of Karachi’s shores. Plastic wrappers, soda [...]

RIP, Cliff Carle

Some people are ringing in the new year in their party clothes and hats. I’m ringing in mine in my pajamas, wondering how to memorialize a man whom I haven’t seen in two years and whose death I learned of just a few hours ago. He actually died last week. But I can’t let this [...]

Shoot better online video

You think making a good video is about the pictures? Wrong. It’s about the sound. Check out more tips on online video-making from broadcast journalism instructor Mary Coffman in my latest post for the SmartBlog on Social Media.

While you were banned…

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan lifted the country’s ban on Facebook a couple of days ago. That’s not such a surprise, as all initial news stories had reported the ban would last until May 31. Several interesting things happened during the 13 days the ban was in place: Resourceful folks in Pakistan continued to [...]