Posted in Politics, Social Software on Jan 19th, 2012 3 Comments »
Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA Pogue lays out the situation calmly and clearly. Its worth a read. Some people are O.K. with the goals of the bills, acknowledging that software piracy is out of control; they object only to the bills’ approaches. If the entertainment industry’s legal arm gets out of control, they say, [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software, Video on Jan 18th, 2012 6 Comments »
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. There’s no doubt piracy is wrong but having Congress, many of whom still think the internet is a “series of tubes” design laws to protect copyrighted material maybe isn’t the best way to go about stopping it. fightforthefuture.org/pipa [via The Kid [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Politics, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 3 Comments »
This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine. Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below): [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Politics, Process on Nov 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Voting by iPad in Oregon on Tuesday Election workers are taking the iPads to disabled voters who might otherwise have difficulties marking their ballots, the AP wrote. These voters are able to pull up the ballot on the iPad and tap the screen to mark the candidate of their choice before printing out their completed [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photography, Politics on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Money Faces I saw the Colossal post first, then followed it to Visual News: Show me your Money Face!, then followed it to The 99% Behind the Money. Great and fun meme that has been around long before the Occupy Wall Street Movement started although I certainly get why folks in that movement would want [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Places, Politics on Sep 12th, 2011 No Comments »
When Hoedads Walked the Earth I get the quarterly magazine of University of Oregon alumni, Oregon Quarterly. In this month’s issue is a piece about a group I used to follow with interest, a tree planting collective called The Hoedads (named after the hoe like tool used to dig a hole and plant a seedling). [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Politics, Travel on Sep 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Know Your Rights: Photographers The American Civil Liberties Union overview of your rights as a photographer in the United States.
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Process, Social Software on Aug 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
Americans Elect There was an interesting piece on The PBS NewsHour last night on Americans Elect, a group attempting to use the web to offer Americans a different way of becoming involved in the political process: ‘Americans Elect’ Group Challenges U.S. Presidential Primary Process. While I was interested in the concept neither guest made clear [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Aug 21st, 2011 No Comments »
World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans Alan Taylor continues his series at the Atlantic’s In Focus on World War II in Photos. This impressive collection includes a few images from Ansel Adams who was doing commercial photography for the State of California and the US government at the time. The internment of Japanese Americans [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Politics on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
HP’s webOS Reportedly Runs Significantly Faster on iPad 2 Than on TouchPad It’s old news that HP has decided to sell off its computer business. The fact that the tablet and smartphone OS that Palm had in the works that HP bought runs faster on an iPad (iOS) or even as a web application under [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Politics on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
A Big Bridge In The Wrong Place Fascinating piece by David Kestenbaum on how the Tappan Zee Bridge got built where it is.
Posted in Opinion, Politics on Jun 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Grading Schools: How to Determine the ‘Good’ From the ‘Bad’? The PBS NewsHour’s John Merrow and his production team did an excellent job of tackling this tough issue. For anyone attempting to figure out how we dig out of our national literacy problem, this is worth watching.
Posted in Events, People, Photojournalism, Politics on May 10th, 2011 2 Comments »
Ready to record history Jason Reed on how the press was notified and dealt with the last minute call on President Obama’s televised announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. For those who questioned the process, read the last paragraph. Fascinating. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, Opinion, Politics on Apr 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Apple and Intel stop using conflict minerals More on conflict minerals. I know it’s hip to dump on Apple for their use of “slave labor” over at the Foxconn plant in China but I do think they’re making an attempt to use their new global power to push for good. It’s incremental but it’s something.
Posted in Audio, NPR, Politics on Mar 30th, 2011 No Comments »
The Secret Bunker Congress Never Used This is a fascinating and well produced piece on a bunker in West Virginia that was built to house all members of Congress in the event of a nuclear war. Anne and I had the same thought: why not put Congress in the bunker now and seal it!
Posted in Learning Disabilities, People, Politics on Mar 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Dan Malloy, Connecticut Governor, Opens Up About Dyslexia Troubles “I have to tell you, I’ll be right up front about it: I’m the governor of the state of Connecticut and I can’t write anything well,” Malloy told the rapt students. “This is who we are. I can’t write things. I’m embarrassed all the time about [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics, Travel, Video on Feb 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Now, if American CEOs did this, members of Congress did this, President Obama did this, we might be able to stomach asking working people for so many concessions to make things right. The least American CEOs could do is what Steve Jobs at Apple does: take $1 in salary and get the rest in stock [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Process, Travel on Feb 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Support Grows for Tiered Risk System at Airports As a frequent traveler I support this but oh boy, I can see the problems with it already. 1. Profiling will no doubt get a few people into the risky pool who shouldn’t be there. Getting “promoted” out of that pool will be a tough fight. 2. [...]
Posted in Opinion, Places, Politics, Social Software on Feb 6th, 2011 4 Comments »
Wallflowers at the Revolution The social networking hype eventually had to subside for a simple reason: The Egyptian government pulled the plug on its four main Internet providers and yet the revolution only got stronger. “Let’s get a reality check here,” said Jim Clancy, a CNN International anchor, who broke through the bloviation on Jan. [...]
Posted in Politics, Reading on Jan 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
New Edition Of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Will Eliminate Offensive Words This is terrible. While I don’t use or support the use of the word “nigger” it’s an important part of the history of the United States and the setting for Mark Twain’s book was early enough so that the word in question was in common use. [...]
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