Katrina, one year later. Mission not accomplished
After one year, New Orleans is still wounded. This pictures of the 9th Ward was not taken last year; it’s just a few days old and was taken by photographer 1115 (via Albert; view the entire set on Flickr).
Technorati Tags: remembering, anniversary, Katrina, New Orleans
Little Miss Sunshine
Yesterday I went to see Little Miss Sunshine with Husband. I loved it. It’s a funny laugh-aloud-real-hard movie and it’s a deep and serious movie. I know, I do tend to see deep hidden meanings in movies that are flat like two-dimensional branes—take for example, most B sci-fi movies made in the 50s and 60s—so I’m not completely sure everybody would agree with me; still, I’m almost positive this movie is deep.
Links - August 26, 2006
- In Six Steps to Everyday Activism, Britt Bravo—who want us to Have Fun - Do Good—summarizes six best practices for maintaining hope and enthusiasm when trying to save the world.
- It’s been almost one year since the hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Last September, Zadi Diaz made news with her Katrina video Wake me up when September ends. One year later, it still brings back all the pain and the rage.
- More heartbreaking Katrina stories collected by NPR for StoryCorps.
- Amy Gahran talks about the Iranian blogosphere (”You may be as surprised as I was to learn that Farsi is one of the most popular languages in the blogosphere”) in Time for Blogging Diplomacy? and suggests that “perhaps blogs might represent a potentially powerful new avenue for person-to-person diplomacy.”
- Jeneane’s take on Pluto’s demotion. Web 2.0 ha-ha funny.
IT Conversations with myself: is danah boyd cool or what?
Anto: What do you think of danah boyd? Don’t you think she’s supercool?
nella: [continuing to read Scoble's post about investing in blogging] Yeah, she is OK.
Anto: OK? Just OK? Have you read her post on superpublics?
nella: [click-hopping to Jeneane Sessum's post on the history of "small is the new big"] Yes, I did. It’s interesting.
Anto: She has all these great ideas on social networks online.
nella: [Now reading Hugh McLeod] She’s writing her dissertation on social networks; it would be surprising if she didn’t have interesting things to say.
Anto: My dissertation was not that interesting.
nella: [scanning Shelly's posts on The bbgun] Here we go again.
Anto: No, really.
nella: [makes faces while reading Stowe Boyd's /Blip of the week; wonders if Stowe and danah are related]
Anto: Stop it!
nella: You stop it.
Silence. Click. Click. Click.
Anto: OK, but she has more interesting things to say that many A-listers.
nella: [reading BoingBoing making fun of the Wall Street Journal] I would agree with that.
Silence, except for furious typing.
Anto: Are you angry at me?
nella: No, I’m not.
Anto: Are we OK then?
nella: We are golden.
Silence. Typing. More typing. Silence.
Anto: I love you.
nella: I love you, too. Now shut up. Trying to be a serious blogger here.
Technorati Tags: blogging, danah boyd, superpublics, alisters, multiplepersonalities
Local Showcase: Welcome to Phillyville
Yesterday, Karl Martino wrote a great post discussing why “the web is flat” assumption is wrong (I’m especially grateful to Karl for the link to Clay Shirky’s 2003 article Powerlaws, Weblogs, and Inequality).
Today Karl makes a concrete proposal: let’s blogstorm local blogs that are featured every two weeks on Philly Future. Karl says that his blogstorm idea came from reading my interview with Wendy Piersall on similar initiatives such as the LinkedIn Blog Boosts and her own BlogJolt.
So, here it is: please visit Ruby Legs’s blog Welcome to Phillyville. In Phillyville, Ruby discusses Philly’s sport events, proposes to use the money we spend to maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal to send 250,000 kids to college, and rants against racist stooges.
What else do you need? Go!!
Technorati Tags: blogging, Philadelphia, phillyfeaturedblog, link, blogstorm, popularity
And the police arrived at the scene
It’s such a wonderful night for a walk. You could use a cigarette and you need air. Air. Close the door behind you (did you close it slowly, so nobody would hear? Or did you slam it, hoping somebody would stop you?) and just walk, one step and then another step. It’s not that hard.
And here you are, just outside the train station. Light a cigarette. Watch the breeze play with the smoke and feel it on your skin. For a moment you almost forget. But it’s just a moment then the pain is back, all of it, and it’s time.
Walk to the tracks, take another puff, breath it in fully. Step just in the middle of the tracks, sit down, slowly lower your head to the ground. It’s hard, but not that hard after all. Move just a little bit to get more comfortable, put your legs down, close your eyes. The tracks fit you nicely, like a bed where you can, finally, rest.
At 9:47PM of Friday, August 18, the R5 local to Thorndale leaves Saint David station for Wayne. Wayne is where I left my car before taking the train to Philadelphia this afternoon. Just 2 minutes and I will be there; I’ll get into the car, put my backpack in the back seat, and drive home. I’m exhausted, it has been a long hard week.
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