Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

Convergence and the Ad Dollar

Stewart Yerton’s piece for the Oregonian is both well-researched and brisk. The paragraphs could send you spiraling outward (as it did me) to dreams of convergences to come. No more squeaking by on book reports based on only “the movie’s-worth”...

Fare and Ballast Reporting?

Edward Wasserman, of The Miami Herald, adds a chapter to the Big Blur saga. What’s news? What’s entertainment? Who’s being paid and how? I wonder increasingly: who’ll nod to the business realities driving this trend to murkiness? During Friends...

Hey man, was that a bring-down?

The totalitarian message is being transmitted while you’re zoned out in front of the television watching the feelies, high on soma—which is some combination of Prozac and Budweiser. John Perry Barlow, at MotherJones.com