The time has come, the walrus said...

The one or two of your that still randomly check in here might have noticed the immense dearth of information about my life. I know. And I've been in Paris since last July, and barely a word.

I could make the usual excuses, but won't.

Thus, I've decided that it's time to part ways with Blogger and retire MonkeyPrints.

However, I'm still online, and I'm multiplying. I've decided that all of my journalism/web/media stuff deserves it's own site. You can find all that on http:www.mailecannon.com.

I've set up a Tumblr blog, for all my other life stuff at http://mereaccumulation.tumblr.com. I promise you there are photos of Paris there.

Thank you, patient readers. Adieu, adieu, adieu...

My first piece in the International Herald Tribune!

Here's my first written piece for the International Herald Tribune. Wahoo! You can also check it out on the New York Times Web site.


Shanghai Bloggers Shed Light on "New China"

Lady Gaga, sort of...

Oh man, this is awesome. A translation of the lyrics are below (and in fairness, you can't say they are any worse than what Lady Gaga wrote originally).



Happy New Year
Good Luck and Great Prosperity
Happy New Year
Good Luck and Great Prosperity
Happy New Year
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity) The spring breeze asked me, I said the spring is already here
In a flash a long year had already gone by
Spring festival is here everybody are all setting off firecrackers
Pi-li-pa-la, pi-li-pa-la [firecracker sound] all so loud

Oh~
(Happy New Year, Happy New Year, ah New Year, year after year)
Oh~
(Happy New Year, Happy New Year, ah New Year, year after year)

New Year is here, New Year is here
Every family and every household are full of joy
(dong dong dong chong, dong dong dong chong) *drum sound*
The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here
The God of Wealth is handing out red envelopes all around
(Wish you a good fortune, hand over the envelopes)

Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Happy New Year)
Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity)

(Good Luck and Great Prosperity) The spring breeze asked me, I said the spring is already here
In a flash a long year had already gone by
Spring festival is here everybody are all setting off firecrackers
Pi-li-pa-la, pi-li-pa-la [firecracker sound] all so loud

Oh~
(Happy New Year, Happy New Year, ah New Year, year after year)
Oh~
(Happy New Year, Happy New Year, ah New Year, year after year)

New Year is here, New Year is here
Every family and every household are full of joy
(dong dong dong chong, dong dong dong chong) *drum sound*
The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here
The God of Wealth is handing out red envelopes all around
(Wish you a good fortune, hand over the envelopes)

Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Happy New Year)
Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity)

New Years is here, every family and every household are full of joy
Ah dong dong dong chong, dong dong chong
dong dong chong, dong chong, dong dong chong

The God of Wealth, the Lord of Wealth is handing out red envelopes all around
Wish you a good fortune, hand over the envelopes
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

New Year is here, New Year is here
Every family and every household are full of joy
(dong dong dong chong, dong dong dong chong) *drum sound*
The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here
The God of Wealth is handing out red envelopes all around
(Wish you a good fortune, hand over the envelopes)

New Year is here, New Year is here
Every family and every household are full of joy
(dong dong dong chong, dong dong dong chong) *drum sound*
The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here
The God of Wealth is handing out red envelopes all around
(Wish you a good fortune, hand over the envelopes)

Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Happy New Year)
Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity)

Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Happy New Year)
Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity)

Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Happy New Year)
Con-con-con-congratulations, con-con-con-congratulations
(Good Luck and Great Prosperity)

Queen Rania in Paris! (frong page of Demotix)

Queen Rania of Jordan spoke at LeWeb. I happened to be outside chatting with a friend when she left the building, and I happened to have my camera. The results made front page of Demotix! ("Yes," Maile says smugly, "again!")

Anyone else...?

Forgive the crassness, but does anyone else find the recently e-mailed e-holiday card from the Graduate School of Journalism to be rather phallic? (And if you think about it as long as a 14-year-old boy might, you might detect in the image a certain feeling of frustration.) 

Total FAILURE!

I'm sitting here in LeWeb. Jack Dorsey is talking about Twitter and new applications. Cover It Live won't launch. TweetDeck won't tweet. Looks like I'll be blogging and phone tweeting here on in.

Jack Dorsey of Twitter talks at LeWeb in Paris!

I'm at LeWeb, an Internet, digital media conference, in Paris. The event's organizers are Loïc and Géraldine LeMeur. They are introducing the event now, and Dorsey will take the stage in just a moment.

LeWeb coverage!

In just a few moments, I will be covering LeWeb from this site. Tune again soon!

Front page of Demotix!

Last night, Algeria played Egypt for a spot at the World Cup in 2010. (This is soccer, of course.) Before their shaming defeat, Algeria supporters took to the streets, shut down the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station and blocked traffic. And fans of every shape and size came out to join the frenzy: There were young girls draped in Algerian flags, middle-aged men hooting and hollering and women yodelling. Teenage boys with faces smeared with red, green and white paint set off fireworks and every physical surface that was climbable was climbed on, including the newsstand opposite the entrance to the station.

I took some photos of the pre-match celebrations and, not knowing what to do with them, I uploaded them to Demotix. (Demotix is a new news group that offers a platform for citizen journalists to display their work.) I had had a Demotix account for a few months, but never posted anything to it before yesterday. Thus, I was quite pleased to receive a note from their editors letting me know that they selected one of my images for their home page (as pictured above). Pretty neat, huh?

If you'd like to see some of my other pictures, you can look at my page at Demotix.