Category: Paleoblogs
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Lyons, Carnival, and FEMA oh my!
We talked on the phone to our friends in New Orleans last night as they were out on their front porch directing traffic onto sidewalks and neighbor’s driveways for Mardi Gras parking. They sounded happy for the first time in a long while. Here’s some pics of their neighborhood at Inside The Bowl
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Global Warming Walking Points
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/24/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm Gore’s speech enumerates well-documented scientific evidence that the global climate is changing significantly — and fast. Here are a few data points: Global CO2 levels are way outside what have been historical norms over several hundred thousand years. All ten of the hottest years on record, globally, have occurred in the last 15 years.…
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Why youth 'heart' MySpace
danah boyd has posted her “crib notes” for a talk she gave at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in February, Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. Worth reading for everyone curious (or fretting) about MySpace’s popularity with the young.
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Bill Quick's claim to fame a fraud?
No, you’re not the guy who named the blogosphere. Get over yourself. (Oh the things you learn when catch up with Kottke’s blog.)
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Kottke's grand experiment flounders
Despite the first flush of support when Jason Kottke announced his plan to make his blog his full time job, News.com reports that Full-time blogger Kottke throws in the towel. Sorry to hear it. No doubt Jason will continue to make an excellent blog the way most of us do it, in our copious free…
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Video for the people
The good folks at Participatory Culture have unveiled a key component of their “Democracy Internet TV” platform, the desktop Democracy Player software (for Windows only, so far): > This Windows version, while still in beta, means that we now have a complete set of tools for democratizing online video — and marks the beginning of…