The Missouri Department of Natural Resources had a media tour of Johnson Shut-Ins today, and I obtained permission to attend to take photographs. The members from DNR were wonderfully informative, courteous, and helpful. I also spent time chatting with an AmerenUE employee who I found to be very informative on how the company and specifically the company […]
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Chatter
Over the weekend, there was chatter about a conversation index, and how the number of comments you have is an indicator of the depth of the conversation. Frankly, I’m not sure we can have a conversation with our posts and comments, no matter how many people become involved. When you write a comment to one […]
Amidst the turmoil surrounding freedom of expression, a bit of heaven, if you will, has been found on earth. Scientists for Conservation International have discovered a slice of earth never before visited by humans in New Guinea–full of new or extremely rare species. The animals are so unused to humans, they evidence no fear of the people and the […]
Hopefully those of you expecting books from me received them by now. I gather the packaging for the Practical RDF book did not hold up particularly well to shipment; again, hopefully, none were lost in the mail. If so, and the books separated from the packaging and the addressees were lost, then at the least […]
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On commentary
Thanks to Danny Ayers, I’ve now heard about CoComment a service to track your comments. Thanks to Phil at Squash, I’ve also heard about the so-called conversation index originated by Stowe Boyd. I don’t comment in other weblogs enough to care about CoComment (and shame on me for not doing more). It will be interesting to see this in action, but for […]