Monthly Archives: June 2007

Digby reveals herself

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Karl

Whether you are interested in the social software/media as a toolset for activism and participatory politics, or reporting the news, or simply community, there is something for you in Digby’s speech at Take Back America 2007. Take the time and … Continue reading →

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Doc Searls and Dave Rogers Converse

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Karl

I was happy to read about Dave Rogers’s and Doc Searls’s conversation on Dave’s blog the other day. Both write about subject matter I care about – various intersections of society and the web – and have opinions I respect, … Continue reading →

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Congratulations Rajiv

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Karl

Congrats to Rajiv Pant, who has taken a job in NYC at Conde Nast Publications as VP of Information Technology for CondeNet! Rajiv was my manager (and eventually VP) at Philly.com and Knight Ridder, before the dotcombust, back when KR … Continue reading →

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Happy Father’s Day

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Karl

I’ll leave you with a quote, an excerpt from Jeff Gammage’s new book “China Ghosts”: Becoming her father: The lack of control is terrifying. Maybe that’s why parents reduce the experience to banalities. They grow up so fast. You turn … Continue reading →

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Elmer Smith: “Somehow it always ends up sounding like signing up for the draft.”

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Karl

In my twenties I was lucky to observe two terrific dads – my wife’s, and my brother. But that was my twenties, growing up I had zero male role models. I didn’t have a dad, and I can only recall … Continue reading →

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Kay Miller: “I had low self esteem, thinking I couldn’t achieve anything.”

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Karl

Kay Miller is one of the first five Philadelphia recipients of free laptops provided by Impact Services Corp in their welfare to work program. Impact Services provided me the tutoring I needed to get my G.E.D., and I am forever … Continue reading →

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“Fudgcicles!”

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Karl

One of the funny developments to having an infant who is trying to parse every word you speak is the realization you can’t curse as freely as you used to. Yeah, I know, I don’t exactly use curse words all … Continue reading →

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An Ajax RSS Reader

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Karl

William Lazar cooked up a sweet RSS reader you can read about on his blog using Google’s Ajax Feed API and MooTools. Part of me wants to whip up a Popurls page using this, that stores what feeds you want … Continue reading →

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Being uninsured

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Karl

I posted an editorial, from a deeply personal perspective, about being uninsured and health care to Philly Future and Young Philly Politics. There’s a bit about me in there you might not know about. We gotta speak out sometimes. And … Continue reading →

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David Shenk stops by

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Karl

In a post a couple weeks ago I mentioned that David Shenk in his book “Data Smog” should have put down Law 13 of Data Smog to be “Cyberspace is Libertarian” instead of “Cyberspace is Republican”. He stopped by and … Continue reading →

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