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04/21/04
Incurious George
04/19/04
Free Wally
04/18/04
How I Discovered the Kinks
04/17/04
Youthful Voters Engage
04/15/04
Killed Bill
04/13/04
Aggrieved--But Not Feeling Responsible
04/11/04
A Good Question
04/09/04
The PDB: It Ain't Just 'History'
04/09/04
Condi's Take: Swatting at Flies
04/06/04
The Secret Plan for Iraq
04/04/04
McCain for Veep
04/01/04
O'Franken's Flatness Factor
03/31/04
The Nader Factor
03/29/04
Mad as Hell
03/27/04
Introducing Kevblog

Selected past articles

Don't Stop Treating Third Parties Fairly -- Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 25, 2004 (with Tim Penny)

My iBook Failed Me -- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jan. 7, 2004

Did the Star Tribune Minnesota Poll Destroy Tim Penny's Campaign? -- Minnesota Law & Politics, March 2003

Digital Video Recording Changes TV For Good -- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Feb. 9, 2003

Distraught Over Son's Disappearance, Mom Says Downtown 'Dangerous' -- Skyway News, Dec. 19, 2002

Major Label First: Unencrypted MP3 For Sale Online -- Newsbytes.com, May 23, 2002

Eskola and Wurzer: The Odd Couple -- Minnesota Law & Politics, January 2002

U.S. on Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law' -- Newsbytes.com, Oct. 16, 2001

Disorder in the Court -- Minnesota Law & Politics, October 2001

Stopping Bin Laden: How Much Surveillance Is Too Much? -- Newsbytes.com, Sept. 25, 2001

Verizon Works 'Round The Clock' On Dead N.Y. Phone Lines -- Newsbytes.com, Sept. 13, 2001

Artificial Intelligence: Help Wanted - AI Pioneer Minsky -- Newsbytes.com, Aug. 31, 2001

Monkeeing Around In 3D -- Newsbytes.com, June 4, 2001

Who Will Hear You When You Stream? -- San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 22, 2001 (with Steve Jones)

RTNDA: For Journalists, The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Newsbytes.com, Sept. 14, 2000

Bill Hillsman: Minnesota's Most Dangerous Political Player? -- Minnesota Law & Politics, May 2000

Attacks Hobbled Entire Net, Web Tracker Says -- Newsbytes.com, Feb. 11, 2000

Hacker Mitnick Freed -- Newsbytes.com, Jan. 24, 2000

Mr. Computer, Gimme Re-write -- Editor & Publisher, Dec. 7, 1999

Will Ventura Devise a Web Spin Cycle? -- Editor & Publisher, Oct. 21, 1999

It Is Written -- Ventures, November 1998

TV's Threat Gets Bigger On The Web -- Editor & Publisher, Nov. 1, 1998

Local Broadcasters: The Net's Sleeping Giant -- Online Journalism Review, June 26, 1998

The Kevrock Dept.

This is the cover of my home-recorded 2002 CD, "Gettysburg." Linked selections are available to be played as MP3 files.


Gettysburg, copyright 2002, Kevin Featherly


Track Listing

  • Seaweed Boots (Featherly/Koester)
  • She Sees Me (K. Featherly)
  • She Knows Me Too Well (Brian Wilson)
  • Salt Mama (K. Featherly)
  • Another Age (K. Featherly)
  • So Special (K. Featherly)
  • Bring it on Home (Sam Cooke)
  • Being Free (K. Featherly)
  • Tammy (K. Featherly)
  • River City Blues (K. Featherly)
  • Beware of Darkness (George Harrison)
  • Gettysburg (K. Featherly)
  • Minong at Midnight (K. Featherly)
  • Violent State of Mind (Nate Featherly)
  • Don't Do It (Featherly/Featherly/Koester)
  • Save the World (Koester)
  • The Grave Song (Featherly/Koester)

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-- Jacob Needleman, The American Soul

Monkeeing Around In 3D

by Kevin Featherly

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, 4 Jun 2001 --

Let's not be idiots here. Mike Nesmith is no genius (well, maybe he is). But he is very, very cool. Having conquered the music industry as a Monkee in the '60s, having endured a brilliant but ignored '70s solo career, having invented the MTV concept (it was called PopClips back then), and having run one of the most important film companies of the 1980s, Pacific Arts, Nez is taking it sort of slow these days (though the biannual brainiac convention he holds on his ranch, The Council on Ideas, is the stuff of legend for people who think too much). Still, Nesmith does keep up a Web site, the Videoranch. It is just about the only place you can go to buy all of Nesmith's solo music, and the best of his films (he produced "Repo Man" and "Tapeheads") can also be acquired there. It is also a place where you can spend hours playing around with his "3D Videoranch." Think of it as Myst set somewhere in the desert of the American Southwest, where really cool music clips are hidden in the rocks and flowers. Plus, Nez's site hooks us up with KPIG, possibly the best radio station in America. You can't go wrong. (Hint: Do yourself a favor and buy the album "Magnetic South," while you're browsing about.) World Wide Web: http://www.videoranch.com

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .

20:31 CST

Reposted 20:31 CST

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Kevin Featherly, a former managing editor at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, is a Minnesota journalist who covers politics and technology. He has authored or contributed to five previous books, Guide to Building a Newsroom Web Site (1998), The Wired Journalist (1999), Elements of Language (2001), Pop Music and the Press (2002) and Encyclopedia of New Media (2003). His byline has appeared in Editor & Publisher, the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Online Journalism Review and Minnesota Law and Politics, among other publications. In 2000, he was a media coordinator for Web, White & Blue, the first online presidential debates.
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