BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Phil has continued the discussion related to the Doppleganger post, providing some eye opening insight: My immediate reaction to Shelley’s GreatestJournal post was to leap to the defence of walled gardens – “Walled gardens are full of people!”. It’s a nice line, but on reflection I don’t think it’s quite right. What we’re hearing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A year ago I and others wrote on Pop!Tech and the lack of women and diversity in its speaker list. At the time, the conference had one woman speaking out of 30. I don’t know if what we wrote had an impact or not, but I was heartened to see […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not usually driven to ‘want’ when reading about this gadget or that. I don’t have an iPod, and don’t have one on my wishlist. I have enough camera for my needs (D70) and a very nice printer and several lenses so I’m fine there. My smallish TV/DVD combo works […]
An archive of this page, with comments, is available at Wayback Machine Saturday was the Artica event downtown, which promised many photographic opportunities. I wasn’t up for the crowds, though, and headed towards the Botanical Gardens to look at leaves turning color. The leaves were still green except for a sugar maple here and there. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the weekend, much froth was expended on the concept of so-called spamming weblogs, or splogs. Tim Bray writes, Ladies and gentleman, I think we have an emergency on our hands. Chris Pirillo writes that …99% of the blogspot.com domains *I* see are from spammers. Yet, what we’re finding is that these ’splogs’, a silly word […]