SCOTT ANGER » Featured http://scottanger.com Sun, 30 May 2010 13:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://scottanger.com http://scottanger.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico SCOTT ANGER Online life after death http://scottanger.com/2009/12/20/online-life-after-death/ http://scottanger.com/2009/12/20/online-life-after-death/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:13:32 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=805 What happens to one’s social media accounts after death?  MyWebWill, a start-up company in Sweden, is trying to address the problem of handling the online lives of people after they die .  VentureBeat‘s Kim-Mai Cutler sat down with founders Lisa Granberg and Elin Tybring to get an explanation of the service. Ms. Cutler writes: MyWebWill [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/11/19/photographing-the-changing-climate/feed/ 0 Obama’s War on FRONTLINE http://scottanger.com/2009/10/09/obamas-war-on-frontline/ http://scottanger.com/2009/10/09/obamas-war-on-frontline/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:06:29 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=569 Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the “graveyard of empires”?  FRONTLINE‘s season premiere, Obama’s War, airing October 13, 2009 on PBS, takes a look at the administration’s new counterinsurgency plan for Afghanistan and its neighbor, Pakistan, where US troops are not allowed.  To see the new strategy at work, FRONTLINE embedded [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/09/02/covering-conflicts-safely/feed/ 0 Hmong film screening in New York http://scottanger.com/2009/05/27/hmong-film-screening-in-new-york/ http://scottanger.com/2009/05/27/hmong-film-screening-in-new-york/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 10:38:10 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=340 The documentary film, WITNESSES TO A SECRET WAR, will be screened at the Visual Arts Theater in New York on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 7 p.m.  A question and answer session with director Deborah Dickson, co-producer Mary Robertson, editor Sakae Ishikawa and myself will follow. Here’s the trailer for the film: The film tells [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/05/27/hmong-film-screening-in-new-york/feed/ 0 Photographer Edward Weston’s part of California http://scottanger.com/2009/03/28/photographer-edward-westons-part-of-california/ http://scottanger.com/2009/03/28/photographer-edward-westons-part-of-california/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:31:05 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=299 The New York Times travel section has published a wonderful story about legendary photographer Edward Weston and the Monterey Pennisula where he made some of his most important images of his career.  Weston’s grandson, Kim Weston, who lives with his wife in Edward’s old house on Wildcat Hill south of Carmel, California tells the story [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/03/28/photographer-edward-westons-part-of-california/feed/ 0 Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceases publication http://scottanger.com/2009/03/17/seattle-post-intelligencer-ceases-publication/ http://scottanger.com/2009/03/17/seattle-post-intelligencer-ceases-publication/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:37:25 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=292 The Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer will become an online-only news publication today. It is becoming for the staffs at closing newspapers to produce a video highlighting the accomplishments and lamenting the loss.  Here is the PI’s; Starting Wednesday, the P-I, as it is known, will focus mostly on commentary, advice and links to other news sites, [...] Related posts:
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