Blogroll
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Every thing has a face, and vice versa
That line came to me a few minutes ago, as I looked and read through the latest photographic blog posts by Stephen Lewis in his blog, Bubkes). This one… … titled Farmyard, Grandmother, Chicken, and Ovid in Exile, is accompanied by richly detailed text, including this: The courtyard in the photo no longer exists; it and and… Continue reading
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Missing Michael
Uninstalled is Michael O’Connor Clarke’s blog — a title that always creeped me out a bit, kind of the way Warren Zevon‘s My Ride’s Here did, carrying more than a hint of prophesy. Though I think Michael meant something else with it. I forget, and now it doesn’t matter because he’s gone: uninstalled yesterday. Esophogeal… Continue reading
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The New York Mash
Just noticed Blogrunner, which looks like a mash of Technorati and Google News. The brief About: Blogrunner is a news aggregator from The New York Times that monitors articles and blog posts and tracks news stories as they develop across the Web. Below that is a link to its blog. Here’s the FAQ. Continue reading
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In the likely event of a water landing
Good, tight story of what happened on USA1549. In the International Herald Tribune. By the way, somewhere in this weekend’s Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor sings a delightful tribute to the crew of flight 1549. Heard it live yesterday. The show is running again today on many public stations. Public Radio Fan has times and… Continue reading
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Yo!Yo!
Lessig returns to Harvard. Local souces confirm. Heres the tweet. Watch the blog for more. (Here it is.) Overheard among the locals: Aslan is on the move. Continue reading
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On behalf of blogging,
I call Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 a crock. Paul Boutin wrote it. He’s an old friend, and I hate to crap on anybody’s work. But he’s wrong about this one. A sample from my reply: As personal journals on the Web go, blogs have no substitute. Twitter is fine for 140-character… Continue reading
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Shoot
Several weeks ago, while we were walking around Mystic Seaport, in the mist of shooting these pictures, I dropped my camera, a Canon 30D — a workhorse that has served ably for more than two years. Afterwards it seemed to work fine mechanically, but it could no longer read light properly. For whatever reason, it… Continue reading
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An OLPC pre-mortem? Hope not.
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi is a long and wrenching piece about the OLPC project by Ivan Krstic. Just one man’s take, but Ivan’s been a strong advocate for the OLPC’s highest purposes. Performer too. Some pushback from Taran Rampersad. Also this from Tom Hoffman. (And privately from some people.) For what it’s worth, I’ve loved… Continue reading
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Living Lessig
Listening to, and blogging, Lessig live from the Ames Courtroom here at Harvard, as part of the Berkman@10 celebration. Lessig was here at the founding. Some public notes from his talk… There are two and a half doctors for every drug representative. Story: He disqualified himself as a geek by asking a question about law… Continue reading
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Some advice for artists with websites
In my last post I quoted some Doors lyrics. Uncharacteristically, I did not do any linking. I didn’t link to The Doors’ site because it’s full of Flash and other crap that is not only at stylistic variance from the spare and artful nature of The Doors’ work, but likely to either annoy you or… Continue reading
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The clarity challenge
Some assignments for Social Graph Foo Camp is my latest at Linux Jounal. The camp starts today. Some bottom lines… Social systems are as old as humanity, and among the most complex and subtle topics of human existence. To call a Twitter following or a Friend list on Facebook a “social network” is a… Continue reading
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Quote du jour
What’s meta about life transcends what’s meta about electronics. Or what’s meta about online social networks or anything that’s less real than life itself. That’s the point made here. From MemoireVive, recorded at LeWeb3 in Paris on Wednesday. And thanks to Joe Andrieu for the pointage. Continue reading