BurningbirdOne person I admire greatly is Ian Clarke, the founder and architect of Freenet — the most sophisticated and open distributed network. In an interview in news.com, Ian talks about 9/11’s impact on Freenet, and the greater need for this type of technology today. When asked the question: What effect has Sept. 11 had on your drive for online […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read with respect Sargeant Stryker’s eloquent and extremely well thought out discussion about Doc Searl’s comment killing does not justify killing (a misrepresentation of Hanan Cohen’s Death does not justify death). I may not agree with Stryker’s analysis and interpretation, but I can respect the effort and the interest as well as the careful […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Peace bloggers. We have an official name, now. Of course, can’t have a term without a definition, and my definition of a peace blogger is anyone who believes, as Hodja did, that everyone in the Middle East conflict is right. And we believe this because we know that no one in the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I found an excellent essay, Vietnam War Retrospective that discusses photojournalism’s effects on the Vietnam protest movement. Among some of the events recalled by the author, Frank Cossa, is the following: We saw a callow, fair young man slip a flower into the rifle barrel of a helmeted MP standing guard in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mike Sanders says And the equivocation and silence of the non war bloggers is deafening. Not only condemned for what we say, we are now condemned by what we don’t say. Weblogging now has a new owner and that owner is the war bloggers and those who believe that if we don’t […]