Posted in Hiking on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are two views from the patio at our new place on the lake. It’s west toward the Cascades from Eugene, Oregon.
Our dock
Out across the lake
Oregon, lake, Dexter_Lake, Lowell
Posted in Blogging, Censorship, Committee to Protect Bloggers on August 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The cheerleading surrounding the transformative power of the new communications technologies, or “Web 2.0,” is masking an unacknowledged reality: The majority of men and women using them wish for free speech to extend only as far as themselves and no further. Blogging, podcasting, file sharing: all of it, they believe, should be in service to [...]
Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
The Committee to Protect Bloggers is back. I’m focusing on making it more strictly a clearinghouse for information on threatened bloggers and threats to bloggers. Subscribe to the feed and I’ll try to keep you up-to-date on horrible happenings around the world.
Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers
Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks to the Teen Titans at Free Kareem, the Committee to Protect Bloggers has a host. Esra’a and her ilk are the ultimate in “disruptive” free speech organizations and we’re lucky to be in such good company. When the site’s up and the domain’s defined, I’ll post it here.
Free_Kareem, Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers
Posted in Africa, Blogswana on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
If you haven’t checked out Blogswana lately, I encourage you to do so. Brian is keeping it up and has become an excellent blogger on HIV/AIDS issues, aid, Africa and Botswana topics. We haven’t given up hope we’ll find someone or something to fund the project. Well as I said in my last post, I [...]
Posted in Blogging, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Free speech, Human rights, Threatened bloggers on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Because I is a idiot, I was considering reawakening the beast that is, or rather was, the Committee to Protect Bloggers. To do this, I need a free blog host. OK, they’re common enough. But since my techno-eyes are always bigger than my techno-stomach, I need a host that would also be available for constant [...]
Posted in Social media on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
If you’re on Twitter or Facebook, or both, consider adding me.
Curt on Twitter.
Curt’s Facebook page.
Twitter, Facebook
Posted in Society & Politics on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I did a survey of the major 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, in terms of who uses Twitter. The tendency I noted in a January post for Republicans to ignore social media continues.
In an 8-to-10 (D-to-R) field, the Dems win 4-to-1
My “methodology” is as follows: If a candidate has “Haven’t updated yet” (HUY) on their account [...]
Posted in Fiction, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on August 16, 2007 | No Comments »
On August 8, 2007, the United States military, at the order of the president, delivered two-thirds of its total nuclear stock pile to Iran. To be clear, they dropped that nuclear stock pile, in device-form, armed, onto the country of Iran, where they exploded and Iran got crispy, like a piece of burnt toast 1,000 [...]
Posted in Blogging on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Black Weblog Awards are accepting nominations. I’ve nominated Black Looks and microscopiq. Go unto them and register your Afroblogular opinions.
bwa, Black_Looks, microscopiq, blog
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