BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is collecting links to a growing story about Blogger weblogs being blocked in mainland China. Eatonweb portal has a list of Chinese bloggers many of whom use Blogger. From this list, the About China blogger, leylop, writes: Proxy Wow, I’m really excited ! Finally, I’m able to access by own blog and any other […]
I want to refer you to two compelling, powerful essays, both related to a very difficult subject: child abuse. The first is Tansu by Jonathon Delacour. The second, written by Loren Webster and inspired by Jonathon’s work is The Simple Hell People give other People. Hell is for Children They cry in the dark, so you can’t […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I do not understand why we continue to focus on Iraq, whom I think we all know, deep in our hearts and minds not to be a threat, when we’re faced with situation far more chilling: North Korea’s withdrawal from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. I watched the Berlin wall come down and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Clay Shirky took what is basically an informal, distributed, totally loose system we’re all calling LazyWeb (because, well, we tend to like catchy terms), and formalizing the hell out of it. He writes at O’Reilly: However, the coordination costs of the LazyWeb as a whole are very high, and they will grow as […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sorry, but this is all just too good and I must share: Don’t invite only male speakers If all your speakers are always men, women will notice and not feel welcome. Role models people can identify with are important to staying interested in a field. Do ask women to speak […]