Lots of things have been happening and hence the absence of actual updates here, haha. Sorry about that. Where to begin?
- Over at Hightower Lowdown, we’ve launched a new weekly video series featuring America’s #1 Populist. What more could you ask for? 2 minutes of Jim talking to you every single week! You can also watch it on YouTube, or subscribe to the show in iTunes.
- And for AlterNet.org, we relaunched the front page to be snazzier and brighter. Design was done by Design About Town, engineering by the ever-smarty Shawn and project management and OCD tweaking by me. Whee!
- I redesigned and launched the website for best-selling author Amy Bloom, who has been an absolute riot to work with. I haven’t read her newest, but Come To Me was highly recommended to me by Bitch Magazine co-founder and feminista-extraordinare, Lisa Jervis. And it rocked.
- Lots of photosets from the last couple months.
- Um, I upgraded to Leopard last night, and so far so good. One thing that I called tech support about because I couldn’t find an answer anywhere else: yes, Time Machine will wipe your external drive the first time you use it, but then you can continue putting other things on it after. It doesn’t have to be a dedicated Time Machine drive, whew.
That’s pretty much it. Holidays are a-comin’ and I’ll be up in Bingotown for a while, hanging out with the fam, and then back in NYC for New Year’s. Hope all’s well in the land of not-my-apartment!
Well, well, well… it’s all the rage for these 15 seconds, but Time has basically crowned “Web 2.0″ the official whiz-bang-iess thing out there right now. It’s all about you and me, and what we do with ourselves online these days. I read a really great post over at Read/Write Web dissecting what Time got right, and what they got terribly wrong… man, this is such a strange media moment.
Brian Williams, the darling of NBC, had this to say:
We work every bit as hard as our television-news forebears did at gathering, writing and presenting the day’s news but to a smaller audience, from which many have been lured away by a dazzling array of choices and the chance to make their own news.
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Due to some technical complications and a short-circuited brain unit, I just found out that Brad Will was the journalist who was shot dead at the protests in Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday.
Brad taught me about white balance on my camera, how to walk slowly enough to not mess up your picture, and to always point the mic at what you’re shooting. He was earnest and spirited — a wide smile and a big heart. He believed, and dedicated his life to showing others the truth.
More from Jason, and the AP report with quotes from Beka and Brandon.
News on vigils and protests, and latest reports: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/bradleywill/archive.html
“Love is a memory that never fades. May memories be your comfort.” — anonymous
A couple of weeks ago, the very kind editors of the new “Comment is free” blog on The Guardian’s website (yes, that Guardian, the one in London) asked me if I would join their blogging team. Evidently they read AlterNet (who knew?) and dig my blogging there, so… there we were. It took all of, oh, 5 seconds to say, “yes please!”
I finally got around to posting my first blog over there, so go read and let me know what you think… “Evolution of geek culture.”
I’ve had this domain up for over a year with the ubiquitous “coming soon” page covering it up; I figured as I’m about to embark on a journey to a new home in Brooklyn, maybe I should make a new home online, too. So, pardon while I’m still hanging curtains and getting the floors done nice… and welcome to my humble (?) abode.
Oh, and the site looks real goofy in Internet Explorer for PC right now (only the browser that 90% of you are using). You should really be using Firefox anyways.
Fixed that problem. Only thing not really working is the flickr badge at the bottom of the sidebar in IE6.0 for PC; I’m getting a 404 inside the iframe. sigh. You all should really use Firefox. ;-)
