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Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of
the Disaster

Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of
the Disaster 12/27/2004 11:32 PM
For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.

NYT, Fox News, others on bl0gs and
tsunami disaster

NYT, Fox News, others on bl0gs and
tsunami disaster 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: John Schwartz wrote an insightful piece for the New York Times this week about the role blogs play in covering and responding to the tsunami disaster. I was interviewed for the piece, but the people who really have something interesting and valuable to say are the ones over there, on the ground -- and the folks rolling up their geek sleeves to assist.

From relaying first-person accounts (like Sanjay/Morquendi's SMS reports in Sri Lanka), to kick-starting relief efforts (tsunamihelp.blogspot.com, and the Post-Tsunami Reconnect project), to questioning media coverage ( Ethan Zuckerman's post about Myanmar), there's a lot going on here The amateur-shot image shown here ran in the NYT story. Snip:

"At sumankumar.com, Nanda Kishore, a contributor, offered photos and commentary from Chennai, India: 'Some drenched till their hips, some till their chest, some all over and some of them were so drenched that they had already stopped breathing. Men and women, old and young, all were running for lives. It was a horrible site to see. The relief workers could not attend to all the dead and all the alive. The dead were dropped and the half alive were carried to safety.' His postings included a photo of a body on a sidewalk with a buffalo walking by. 'It now seems prophetic," he wrote, "for according to the Hindu mythology, Lord Yama (the god of death) rides on a buffalo.'"

Link to story.
Fox News did a segment on this subject yesterday. I spoke with anchor Jon Scott about some of the blogosphere reports we've been pointing to from BoingBoing in recent days. Here are video clips of the Fox News segment: Real, Windows (Many thanks, Mike Outmesguine, for TiVoing and kindly hosting.)

There have been a number of related stories out in the past 24 hours in the Wall Street Journal (Link, sub required), Libération (France) (Link), the Inquirer (UK) (Link), and AP (Link) . (Thanks to BB readers including Jean-Luc for pointers).

Blogs become eyes and ears of disaster

Blogs become eyes and ears of disaster 12/29/2004 12:06 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 29 2004 3:18PM GMT

Xeni on NPR: bl0gs and the tsunami
disaster

Xeni on NPR: bl0gs and the tsunami
disaster 01/04/2005 11:55 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the NPR program "Day to Day" this week, I join NPR's Alex Chadwick to discuss the role of blogs in responding to the tsunami disaster. From first-person accounts, to amateur videoblogging, to tech aid, to fundraising coordination, to "citizen journalism" (nod to Dan Gillmor) that sometimes pokes holes in official government-isssue accounts -- we explore online voices around the world.

Li nk to archived audio for this program, expanded coverage on the NPR website includes pointers to video files and torrents. Link to NPR Day to Day home. This week, listeners in Boston are hearing the show on their local affiliate WBUR for the first time -- so, consider this a shout-out to Boston.

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts 07/05/2004 06:19 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 5 2004 10:37AM GMT

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts
(SiliconValley.com)

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts
(SiliconValley.com) 07/05/2004 06:16 AM
SiliconValley.com - Seventeen-year-old Patrick Ly was so smitten with a certain classmate that he would visit an Internet blogging site to read his crush's musings. Then Patrick began to keep an online journal himself.

Blogs, Wikis And Photobl0gs Testify To
Tsunami Disaster

Blogs, Wikis And Photobl0gs Testify To
Tsunami Disaster 12/29/2004 06:14 PM
Information Week Dec 29 2004 9:22PM GMT

Blogs Provide Huge Traffic Boost

Blogs Provide Huge Traffic Boost 04/13/2005 02:02 AM
Mentions on several web logs (known as "blogs") have resulted in a significant increase in visitors to the www.GreatBigStuff.com website. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Documents Provide New Details of Abuse
(Los Angeles Times)

Documents Provide New Details of Abuse
(Los Angeles Times) 05/23/2004 06:33 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Military investigators who combed through the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq this year were told that one detainee was slammed head-first into a wall and later died, and that another was dunked in urine.

Details, Details, Details: Google,
Slowly, Moves Toward Stock Offering

Details, Details, Details: Google,
Slowly, Moves Toward Stock Offering 04/23/2004 11:13 PM
www.nytimes.com via Drudge Report Apr 24 2004 2:20AM GMT

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005 01/05/2005 03:28 AM
In the aftermath of the tsunamis that devastated Asia in late December 2004, observers pointed out that lack of official, credible information gave victims and governments in the area little prior warning of the impending disaster. Although still in the developmental stages, a partnership of the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) and the Organsation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is creating an information system that may significantly reduce the impact of future natural and manmade disasters. Native American Pueblo and Navajo Nations in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are providing pilot sites for the GDIN system. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411.

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411. 06/17/2004 02:03 AM
1-877-YELLOWPAGES, The nation's first and only YellowPages directory providing business listings over the telephone is filing to go public. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2004]

Shark Tank: Details, details

Shark Tank: Details, details 01/09/2004 09:51 PM
When this IT director installs a new application, he agrees to have it hosted at the corporate data center, three miles from his location -- but only after he asks a few questions about backup power.

Shark Tank: Details, details ...

Shark Tank: Details, details ... 03/19/2005 03:15 AM
It's time to bring up a new server, and because it's replacing one that crashed, the big boss suggests naming it after a mythical bird that lives for 500 years and then rises from the ashes.

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

Remembering the BBS Scene

Remembering the BBS Scene 04/02/2005 04:07 PM
Ah, those were the days. As now, it was a healthy mix of academics, techies, conspiracy theorists and trolls. Jason Scott has a great website chock full of old BBS textfiles, with no advertising. What does his collection include? Well, it's a lot like K5 if you ask me, but maybe a little more naive. There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the text. Enjoy. Jason Scott Proprietor, TEXTFILES.COM

A new social scene

A new social scene 07/05/2004 12:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 5 2004 4:31PM GMT

Art scene and heard

Art scene and heard 07/07/2004 11:11 AM
Located in an historical Long Island elementary school building, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center has been a hub of avant-garde art and culture for nearly three decades. Now, P.S.1. also has an Internet radio station. As you might expect, WPS1 features an eclectic mix of programming. No Clear Channel station is going to give you the voice of Marcel Duchamp, the techno of Todd Sines, and a discussion with Taipei City mayor Ma Yingjiu about public art. From this week's schedule:

11:30 am The Bio-Blurb Show, Edition #3: Bio-Art or Bio-Terror? - In this most provocative program, host Suzanne Anker speaks with former Whitney Museum director David Ross, art journalist Stephen Henry Madoff, and filmmaker Virgil Wong about the federal government's Patriot-Act case against the activist artist Ste ve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble and the criminalization of the American artist in general. Must-hear listening!

12:00 noon Love Crazy, Edition #4 - Whazzup workaholics! For this session of her music series for WPS1, chanteuse Nora York zeroes in on how much we love our labors, especially when they're lost to song.

1:00 pm Curbside Cassette, Edition #3 - Okay, work's covered. How about school? Recent high-school grads Joe Ahearn and Max Kagan celebrate their diplomas with a science-and-math music mix. Indeed, where would we be without "Calculus Man"? Without the Beastie Boys, for one thing, joined here by Mos Def, Sun Ra, Elvis Costello, the Pixies, White Stripes and more.

Link

Fleeing from the scene

Fleeing from the scene 03/28/2005 12:58 PM
The president celebrates Easter with the troops, putting some distance between himself and the right-wing culture warriors in Florida.

Quite a scene last night

Quite a scene last night 09/14/2004 04:57 PM

We're in Paris now - meeting with a new client - Glowria.fr.

More on them later.

For now let me just say thnaks to all the peeps who made it to Lisson Grove last night for expensive Fish & Chips. I should have gotten teh Skate! Lisa loved hers.

Here's a shot of Julian and Ian and a young guy named Edward.

Scene stealer

Scene stealer 03/24/2005 11:52 AM
He stole "Love Actually" and "Dirty Pretty Things" and is Woody Allen's first black lead. But don't expect Chiwetel Ejiofor to play the race card.

Scene from Brazil

Scene from Brazil 04/06/2005 05:27 PM

« A full moon hangs over the power tower in Töölö. I've always thought this building has a striking visual effect since the signs are all the same colour, which is unusual, but they converge on adjacent sides of the building. Maybe it's only because I usually see the building when I'm drunk and snarfing food from the Jaskan Grilli across the street. »

Otava kept us up most of the night as his itchy-scratchy condition reached critical mass. The HU Vet Clinic couldn't give him an appointment for two weeks so we had to find someone who would see him ASAP. I spent my afternoon at the vet and dragging my ass to the pet store for a new giant bag of food and to the pharmacy for some medications. First we try a medicated shampoo and topical pesticide in case it is caused by microscopic mites, otherwise we will have to start hunting down the allergen which could be a long, tedious process. But, for now, he's sleeping comfortably without itching and whining which is a major improvement for us all.

While I was waiting in the pharmacy, I was looking at the cute doggie lunchbox that the pet shop gave to me for buying the giant bag of food which opens into two bowls with a water bottle and a food compartment when some nice old guy sat down next to me and started chatting me up about how a metal one would be better and such. I was so tired that I just smiled and nodded since I don't think I could have made conversation even in English. The pharmacy downtown is straight out of a scene from the movie Brazil with the cascades of pneumatic tubes that transport fresh drugs from the basement up to the awaiting customers.

Sean Burke made my evening last night when he pointed out one of the best reads I've had in a while: Dab blers and Blowhards. Even if you're not a geek or one of the incestuous digerati who will find this cutting a little too close to the bone if they read carefully it's a fun read. I remember distinctly when my bullshit-o-meter pegged on 11 when Tim O'Reilly and bunch of others as OSCON one year were starting to go on about how programmers were really artists and could be funded by patrons of the art of programming, etc. I imagine we were drunk, possibly stoned, and still it seemed like an incredibly pretentious way to put a good face on dot.bomb unemployment. The downside of the essay is that we are reminded of ESR's treatise on oral sex for geeks at the end. Hurrr.

No lifeguards at scene of tragedy

No lifeguards at scene of tragedy 08/09/2004 09:23 AM
No lifeguards were on duty where a 10-year-old boy died after getting into difficulties in the sea off Cumbria.

SGL: A Scene Graph Library

SGL: A Scene Graph Library 05/13/2004 09:39 AM
SGL (and fltlib) v0.7.0 Released

Cantina Scene #1 Boxed

Cantina Scene #1 Boxed 08/12/2004 01:00 AM
As reported yesterday, K-Marts’ exclusive Mos Eisley Cantina scenes are beginning to hit the shelf. Since our original post, reports are starting to trickle in from other areas as well, including Phoenix, AZ. and San Diego, CA. With many K-Mart stores resetting for the Fall, now's the perfect time to add the big "K" to your morning run.

Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum

Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum 03/25/2005 06:27 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 25 2005 10:33AM GMT

It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible
(washingtonpost.com)

It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible
(washingtonpost.com) 12/28/2004 04:57 AM

Random scene from my life

Random scene from my life 06/06/2005 12:09 AM
I took my car into the shop for its regular servicing this morning, and I got comfortable in their waiting room while repairs occurred. The service guy sees me on my PowerBook, and said, "Hey, it's too bad that you're...

The Italian squat scene

The Italian squat scene 03/14/2005 05:53 PM
Yesterday, I had a meeting with some of the Italian Indymedia community at a squat. In most countries squatters are considered criminals and local law has very little tolerance for them. In Italy, the squat scene is the center of a lot of the sub-culture and alternative media. After years of resistance, many of the squats on property which was owned by the local government have been officially recognized by the municipalities in various degrees. The squats have events including debates and parties. They have kitchens, living quarters, and in the case of the squat I went to last night, a computer lab (called "hacks" this one named "bugs") that teaches people how to switch from Microsoft to Linux and allows free Internet access to anyone who wants to drop by.

After the chat in the bugs hack, we went to dinner at a centro sociale called Casale Podere Rosa. It was similar to a squat except the people don't live there. The place we went to was on the upscale end. The food was excellent and they had lots of posters and pamphlets describing the organic farming methods they used to grow their produce.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. On the other hand, the left wing are fighting hand and fist (literally) with the right wing radicals. Free speech was something that people were fighting for, in many cases outside of the law. At a tactical level, my discussion about freedom of expression and our "Infrastructure of Democracy" idea of fighting bad speech with more good speech sounded a bit idealistic. What was interesting to me was the power and the energy of the alternative media movement. It reminds me of my theory on good alternative music. When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

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Lisa makes the scene

Lisa makes the scene 06/17/2005 04:39 PM

Have I told you how cool it is to bring your family to a conference? Assuming you get a god babysitter - your sife gets to join you and we can have quality time together AND get worlk done.

So here's Lisa rapping to Richard Erickson of Bryght at VIDfest.

Meanwhile Mimi and Lucy are up in the hotel room with a sitter.

So for all of you road warriors who spend half their time schmoozing at conferences around the world - I highly recommend you take your families with you (Doc?)

[via Roland, Kris Krug and Bryght]

OpenRM Scene Graph

OpenRM Scene Graph 11/03/2003 10:33 PM
OpenRM 1.5.0 Programming Guide

CSI: Crime Scene Investi

CSI: Crime Scene Investi 09/11/2004 01:11 PM
Techzonez Sep 11 2004 5:25PM GMT

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org 04/07/2005 03:22 AM
Remembering the BBS Scene .. I remember it well .. Article on kuro5hin

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Protestors, Bush on scene

Protestors, Bush on scene 06/08/2004 07:29 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:56AM GMT

Harold is missing the scene!

Harold is missing the scene! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
It's party time!!.

It's party time!!

It's actually funny that us East Coast guys never get invited to any of these West Coast social events (not that we would go - but an invitation once in awhile would just be nice).  We're not even a smart enough group to throw our own events.  Events like these makes an East Coast guy wish sometimes he lived on the West Coast.  Anyway...

If I was at the Laszlo Systems party, sipping their wine and eating their cheese, I'd be talking up the new Audioblogging player I been hinting and talking about lately and trying to get built "maybe" using Laszlo.  My agenda would be to find someone from Laszlo willing to host the Laszlo SAM radio player, similiar to what they are doing with SoundBlox.  As the wine really begins to flow, maybe Marc can drop this permalink or some hints to some player there.  After all, isn't that what they are after with the party, branding and finding new opportunities for their product.  I really need a West Coast agent!!

It's official - Party Tues night at Etech.

Laszlo Systems will be sponsoring a party at O'Reilly's Emerging technology Conference Tuesday night at the Emer3g1ng L0ft scene.

It'll start up at 10 PM - after the day's sessions are over.  Music, beer, booze and great conversation.

The next night - will also be a party there - as well.

This year's Etech is looking to be quite a scene - what with the Emergent Democracy day long pre-sessions, etc.

[Marc's Voice]

[Audio/Mobile Blogging News]

YUP - Harold you're gonna have ot move out here.  That reminds of teh time we got our VC funding (at MacroMind.) Part of the deal was that we had to be right off of 101 or 280 (the two major arteries out here.)  We choose SOMA (South of Market) and we became the first software company down there.

The rest if history.

And now the ashes are rising from the Phoenix. Orkut is throwing a big party tonight. 

But we ARE part of a global virtual world now. It's not like Joi is throwing parties in Chiba.  No he's in Helsinki, NYC, Davos, out here and all sorts of secret hiding places.

BTW The party location has been changed.  Stay tuned for details.

A Great Scene From iCommons

A Great Scene From iCommons 02/01/2005 08:39 PM

We just got this great photo of the Wissenscha ftskolleg conference from Christiane, our International Commons Project Coordinator, whom you can see there in the background. Featured in the foreground is Professor Ricolfi, Creative Commons Legal Project Lead from Italy, and to the right of him is Professor Jürgen Renn, Director of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science. On the very right, is Professor Lessig. Photo by Olivier Menanteau.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

Replay ability is a serious factor. By Jonathan Lowrie, Inside Mac Games

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