BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. The sun is out and I’m heading out to get pictures of flocking birds while I can, weighed down by three cameras, six lenses (including one 300mm), and various stands and other accoutrement. Speaking of flocking, the email conversation yesterday that led to the G Quotient posting, ended up generating […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I initiated an email discussion today that ended up focused on women and weblogging. Without going into particulars, I challenged the members of the group to find their G Quotient, or Gender Quotient: For the last one hundred posts, count the number of times you linked to a male weblogger, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger responded to my discussion yesterday about semantic web compared to Semantic Web: So, if the semantic web means only that we’re learning to understand ourselves better on the Internet, or even that we often adopt similar terms and rhetoric, then, yes, the Web is constantly semantically webbing itself. And if […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last note about the tax board member and weblog writing, if for no other reason to clarify that it was not the IRS I was referencing – it was the California Franchise (tax) board. I was reluctant to mention the name for some reasons I didn’t want to get […]
Joseph Duemer has taken an innovative approach to the comment spammers: he’s billed them. The spammer, who sounds as if he’s two sheets shy of a load, fights back by emailing a complaint against Joe to his employer, the President of Clarkson University. (Joe is a professor at Clarkson). Joe, not to be daunted, then calls […]