That’s just what Congress and the Senate have agreed is OK for Americans who have suffered serious illness, unemployment and other calamities. House Passes Bankruptcy Bill; Overhaul Now Awaits President’s Signature (NYTimes).
Compassionate conservatives indeed. The spineless Democrats that joined them should be ashamed of themselves.
Oh, I forgot, there is no such thing as shame anymore is there?
Discussion at Slashdot on an interview with David Wheeler founder of Bricolage, a CMS that was developed internally for Salon but now powers an interesting selection of sites across the web, including About.com.
The Chronicle: Clever Canines. No surprise to me. Not at all.
Google’s new video service, that allows you to upload, share, and sell your own works, sounds like a powerful tool, not only for professional video producers, but for hobbiests, bloggers, and more. Google gets to become a media company with the content produced by users of its service.
As always, there is a discussion at Metafilter worth checking out.
I think folks should be contrasting and comparing this to OurMedia.org another video distribution service, but one with vastly different terms of service and copyright requirements.
Check it out here.
I still need to figure out what I’m going to migrate to, that is, if I’m going to migrate! I’m definately going to start with a new design soon. I feel guilty – the HTML here is terrible.
This is a duplicate of what I posted at PF this morning
Jay Rosen calls for a new crew to shake up discussions on citizen’s journalism and includes yours truely. I’m blown away and very flattered. After all, I’m not sure I could go to these panels – unless I could take you all with me 🙂
To repeat a point I made in his discussion thread:
We are seeing the onset of a real tipping point: the technological barriers to trying out efforts along these lines have come down to where hobbyists, those that want to experiment, and those with a passion they need to satisfy, can do so with little expense or expertise.
Bryght, for example, can make available to anyone with $39.95 a month the very same communication/publishing capabilities as Philly Future. Bryght provides you with a version of Drupal that is similar to what Philly Future runs (CivicSpace). Roland Tanglao, their “Chief Blogging Officer” calls these sites Web 2.0 sites.
I’d duplicate Jay Rosen’s linkage to the other great sites and people he mentioned here, but I need to be off to work! (I will do so later)
Until then read his article and browse those sites! The discussion is important. Those other sites are trailblazers that you should know about. I’m honored that we are mentioned among them.
The Hubble telescope has provided us with sights that weren’t dreamt of , and yet the Bush administration has cut funding. Its future is in serious doubt.
I wish there was a save the Hubble site similar to Spread Firefox. Who knows what could be done? I’d start it myself if I had the time.
Milestone: We have our first press passed empowered writer covering this year’s film festival at Philly Future.
This is one of those sites that I love the Web for: “3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.” Check it out.
millenniumfalcon.com has a great message forum. Beware going there if you don’t want to be spoiled.
Then again, you can read the book. I just finished it and can tell you that it was absolutely terrific. Way better than the previous two screenplay adaptations – which leads me to hope that this movie will be similarly better. Keeping my fingers crossed.