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Alan Levy
Alan Levy (10 February 1932 – 2 April 2004) was an American author. Life Alan Levy was born in New York City in 1932 and educated at Brown and Columbia universities. In 1952 at Brown, he co-wrote an original Brownbrokers musical titled ''Anything Can Be Fixed'' with Gill Bach and Porter Woods. In addition, he worked seven years as a reporter for the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'' in Kentucky. Later on, he spent seven years in New York as journalist writing for ''Life'' magazine, ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''The New York Times'' and others. Among first personalities he interviewed were W. H. Auden, the Beatles, Fidel Castro, Graham Greene, Václav Havel, Sophia Loren, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Nixon and Ezra Pound. In 1967, Alan Levy moved to Prague with his family, to collaborate on an American version of a musical by Jiří Šlitr and Jiří Suchý. Shortly after, he covered the Prague Spring and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and chro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Kulinski
Kyle Edward Kulinski (born January 31, 1988) is an American political commentator and media host. Kulinski is the host and producer of ''The Kyle Kulinski Show'' on his YouTube channel ''Secular Talk'' and is a co-host with his partner Krystal Ball on the progressive podcast ''Krystal Kyle & Friends''. A self-described left-wing populist and social democrat, Kulinski is a co-founder of Justice Democrats, a progressive political action committee whose candidates refuse donations from corporate PACs. Early life Kulinski was born on January 31, 1988, to a family of Polish and Italian descent. He was born and raised in the New York City suburbs of Westchester County, New York. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 2006 and Iona College in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in psychology. Kulinski credits his father's premature death due to inadequate healthcare, the 2003 invasion of Iraq in his teenage years, and studying the works of Noam C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SB Nation
''SB Nation'' (an abbreviation for their full name ''SportsBlogs Nation'') is a sports blogging network owned by Vox Media. It was co-founded by Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas, and Jerome Armstrong in 2005. The blog from which the network formed was started by Bleszinski as ''Athletics Nation'' in 2003, and focused solely on the Oakland Athletics. It has since expanded to cover sports franchises on a national scale, including all Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League teams, as well as college and soccer teams, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, totaling over 300 community sites. In 2011, the network expanded into technology content with ''The Verge'', leading to the parent company Sports Blogs Inc. being rebranded as Vox Media. ''SB Nation'' operates from Vox Media's offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. Corporate affairs and business model From 2005 to 2011, the sports blog networ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Has A Podcast
''Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP)'' is an entertainment podcast hosted by former '' Survivor'' contestant Rob Cesternino. The podcast primarily provides commentary of reality television game shows. Overview Cesternino started ''RHAP'' in 2010, in order to cover '' Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains'' and the final season of ''Lost''. He continually expanded the podcast over the next several years, adding coverage of '' Big Brother'', ''The Amazing Race'', and ''The Celebrity Apprentice''. ''Survivor'' During ''Survivor'' seasons, Cesternino records multiple podcasts about the show each week, including a live show immediately following the episode's airing with Stephen Fishbach, ''Survivor Know-It-Alls.'' RHAP also produces shows discussing ''Survivor'' that feature hosts other than Cesternino. ''Big Brother'' During the ''Big Brother'' season, Cesternino and the Live Feed Correspondents record several podcasts about the show each week. Notable guests Cesternino has interviewed and wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia. It was founded in July 1993 by co-chairmen and brothers David Gardner and Tom Gardner, and Erik Rydholm, who has since left the company. The company employs over 300 people worldwide. Company name The name “Motley Fool” is taken from Shakespeare’s comedy ''As You Like It''. It references the one characterthe court jesterwho could speak the truth to the Duke without having his head lopped off. History Early years In 1994, The Motley Fool published a series of statements online promoting a nonexistent sewage-disposal company. The messages, which were an April Fool's joke designed to teach a lesson about penny stock investing, garnered widespread attention, including an article in ''The Wall Street Journal''. In August that year, the Gardners parlayed their one-year-old investment newsletter into a content partnership with America Online (AOL). In December, they were profiled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Your Argument (radio Show)
Sport Your Argument is a weekly sports talk radio show based in Washington, D.C., hosted by Matt Potter and Casey Angel, broadcast on Yahoo Sports Radio and the TuneIn Radio networks. Founded in 2011, the two-hour show is heard nationally during Wednesday broadcasts, at 7:00 PM (EST). Sport Your Argument features commentary on the sports world top stories, the incorporation of pop culture into typical sports debates and interviews with other sports talk personalities such as Stephen Edwards of MLBlogs Network & First Take UK and Alex Lowe of Other League. The hosts are known for creating games to help interact with the audience on-air, taking questions on social media (Facebook & Twitter), as well as their comically over-dramatized personalities to bring fans closer to the topics and discussions of the day. Sport Your Argument was previously heard on Blog Talk Radio BlogTalkRadio is a web-based platform that allows podcasters and radio sites and talk show hosts to create live a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ustream
IBM Watson Media (formerly Ustream and IBM Cloud Video) is an American virtual events platform company which is a division of IBM. Prior to IBM acquisition, it had more than 180 employees across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Budapest offices. Ustream had received $11.1 million in Series A funding for new product development from Doll Capital Management (DCM) and investors Labrador Ventures and Band of Angels. Since 2016, it has been a division of IBM. On April 1, 2018, two years after its purchase, Ustream changed its name to IBM Cloud Video to reflect its new ownership, but rapidly changed that name to IBM Watson Media to reflect the embedded artificial intelligence capabilities of IBM's Watson. Origin History Ustream was born when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable and Gyula Fehér) wanted a way for their friends in the US Army, who were deployed overseas in the Iraq War, to be able to communicate with their families. A product like Ustream would provide them w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinychat
Tinychat is an online chat website that allows users to communicate via instant messaging, voice chat, and video chat. It offers instant opportunities for people to meet and the ability for users to create their own virtual chat room on any topic or category. Tinychat is a web-based platform that works on HTML5 compatible browsers or standalone apps for Android or iOS. The chat rooms can contain a rolling maximum of 12 video and audio feeds. Tinychat, including all of its services, is owned by PeerStream. History On November 16, 2009, Tinychat launched Tinychat.tv, which offers users the ability to live stream any video or show hosted on Tinychat. The service uses Tinychat's API and provides the ability to launch a personalized page and channel for initiating multi-user shows. Tinychat has also announced that it will not charge for the cost of bandwidth. Based upon restrictions, Tinychat.tv has been closed. In February 2010, Tinychat launched Tinychat Next, a service similar to C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifecasting (video Stream)
Lifestreaming is an act of documenting and sharing aspects of one's daily social experiences World Wide Web, online, via a lifestream website that collects the things person chooses to publish (e.g. photos, Twitter, tweets, videos) and presents them in reverse-chronological order. History The term "lifestream" was coined by Eric Freeman (writer), Eric Freeman and David Gelernter at Yale University in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream. The tail of your stream contains documents from the past (starting with your electronic birth certificate). Moving away from the tail and toward the present, your stream contains more recent documents—papers in progress or new electronic mail; other documents (pictures, correspondence, bills, movies, voice mail, software) are stored in between. Moving beyond the present and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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