Journalist Joshua Ellis is looking for funding for his follow-up to his Trinity story. He’ll be traveling to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and documenting the entire trip. Instead of relying on a publisher to finance his trip, he’s looking for micropatrons to finance the trip, and then releasing the whole project for […]
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve joined the team at WorldChaning as part of their local blog initiative. I’ll be a regular contributor to the Portland blog and will likely be involved in whatever local events take place. I’ll be at the WorldChanging tour stops in Portland as well. E-mail me or […]
Why not? From MyDD: “And no one called right-wing bloggers “unscrupulous” when they did this to John Kerry in 2004. They opened the pandora’s box on this one, and they can ram their criticisms for me taking it up a notch upward and to the left.”
When I first started this blog, I wrote a post called “What is This Journal For?”” I tossed around a few ideas - mainly the “outboard brain” idea from Cory Doctorow, which remains the operative metaphor for this blog. But I never really found a satisfactory answer, and concluded: “I’m still not sure what this journal […]
Well, AllfofMP3 is the first semi-legit non-DRM music downloading service to go fully ad supported. We’ll see how long they last - they’re under heavy pressure right now. Since AllofMP3 is able to operate at relatively low margins, it will be easy for them to stay in business if they don’t get shut […]
Nicholas Carr on the fact that Google and Windows Live Search place hate site as one of the top results for “Martin Luther King”:
A Microsoft spokesman is even more explicit in asserting that the King result is a manifestation of algorithmic “integrity”:
###The results on Microsoft’s search engine are “not an endorsement, in any way, of […]
As much as I like to see the Republican Party in a tailspin, the media narrative on this is ridiculous. Notice how many stories refer to Foley as a “predator” and the pages in question as “young boys” or “children.” Come on. They were 16. The only reasonable coverage I’ve found […]