admin | February 25, 2009
Just sitting here, trying to come up with some pithy, witty thing to say in my Facebook status line about Barack’s State of the Union Address this evening. Rather than post there (or out-twitter John Dickerson or George Stephanopoulos on the issue), I decided to throw together maybe the “Top Five Take-away lines”– in no [...]
admin | February 13, 2009
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I saw photos today of an eviction. I came away shocked, angry, and haunted.
The most poignient of these photos were of Mary Ann Smith, of Adams County, Colorado. [Alternate link] The photos show pain on Smith’s face that even I can [...]
admin | January 18, 2009
InformationWeek.com ran a piece by Eric Zeman on Twitter and Flight 1549 back on Saturday. Basically, it notes that Twitter had “covered” the “events” of the day before any of the “conventional media” were able to get rolling.
Two of Zeman’s comments got me thinking.
That’s amazing power, all thanks to the mobile phone and a social [...]
admin | December 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Time to Reboot America
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 24, 2008
We don’t just need a bailout in this country, we need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history.
admin | December 6, 2008
In response to
Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.
[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/technology/internet/06security.html]
The tone of this article bothered me. It’s got the same feel we’ve gotten from the media for practically every other problem out there today: “THEY just *have* to fix this. WE here in our little houses are SOOOO vulnerable.”
Don’t [...]
