BurningbirdAs expected Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA. However, though a move in the right direction, it’s not enough. As the article mentions, the government needs to move FEMA back out into a department of its own, and, contrary to some who may believe otherwise, return it to dealing with natural disasters rather than this obsession […]
I did want to point out that there has been a good number of really great comments attached to the Change Starts at Home post. In particular, if you’re interested in social software, inequality within weblogging, and so on, you might want to take a look. Seth pointed out the Symposium on Social Architecture ‘do’ at Harvard come November. Before […]
Oh my: Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman. And the article goes down from there. I don’t like pink, I am not fond of round corners, can program a VCR — […]
Yes! Thank you! I needed this. The BetterBadNews folk take on Tim O’Reilly, Foo Camp, ranking, as well as making a case for getting your Bozo on. Why? Because being a bozo is where it’s at. Case in point: Lone wolfs are cool. If you’re a true lone wolf, you don’t care about ranking schemes. Not caring […]
In a previous post, I wrote: AKMA has been writing about St. Patrick’s Church in Long Beach, Mississippi, ministered by a friend of his, Rev. David Knight. The church is gone, but the associated school is running as a clinic. If, in addition to your giving to national charities such as Red Cross, you want to make […]