BurningbirdI discovered that the SxSW panel on Increasing Women’s Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking is still happening, under Blogher management. One of the original panel members, Virginia DeBolt, is still on the panel, and it looks like a goodly mix of people will be featured. I am disappointed that the original panel fell […]
I received a new comment today to my post, Confluence. The post was based on a trip I took last year to Cairo, Illinois, and the comment was from a man who signed himself JohnnyB: I grew up in Illinois in the 1960s and remember the race riots in Cairo in 1967 and 1969 and the […]
Danny Ayers speaks! In his first podcast Danny Ayers joins with Adam Green and podcast regulars Alex Barnett and Joshua Porter in a podcast on OPML and reading lists. I thought Danny did quite well and has a lovely voice. It reminds me a little of Brian Epstein’s voice, but I imagine that’s a regional similarity. I would […]
Danny Ayers and Bill de hÓra got into a bit of back and forth on RDF and Bill’s response reminded me again of the blind wise men and the elephant. Each person describes a different creature when asked to describe the whole from just the part they touched: one touching the leg assumes the creature is a large, stumpy […]
The proposed new plan for the rebuilding of Johnson Shut-Ins park can be found here. As can be seen, the changes are rather drastic, including a restructuring of the stream through the park. Additional parking, scour overlook, new trails, new interpretive centers–the changes are rather extensive, and meant to support a larger number of visitors due […]