January 2011
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“I’m all for fast wireless broadband, but relying on wireless to solve this...”
– Obama, Mobile Broadband Won’t Save Us: Broadband News and Analysis « (via publicknowledge)
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A Modestly Stupid Proposal
After reading a friend’s apt post in response to the State of the Union, I thought it would be nice if we could, just for a second, dance with some hyperbole, you and I. I’ve been reading some key selections of text from the State of the Union address, anything that mentions Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) usually gets my attention.
“Meanwhile, nations like China and India...
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Documentary photography is dead. Long-live...
I was listening to the local NPR programming recently which featured a segment on a funeral held for documentary photography in LA. Documentary photography, you see, is apparently dead. Killed by the waning budgets of newspapers and publishers, killed by the non-existence of programs such as the Farm Security Administration which brought images of a depression-era landscape seen through the lenses...
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I’ve seen a few photographers that I follow post their top photos of the past year, so I thought I would finally bite and share my top five favorites from 2010.
2010 wasn’t bad in terms of actually getting out and taking photos, at least the first three quarters of it. I moved half-way across the country and started a new academic program in the fall, so that sort of curtailed a lot...
One of my books for the spring semester is called “Cyber-Marx”. It sadly, is not about a cyborg Karl Marx. Though if this semester goes poorly, now I have a good idea for a book I could write.
I am finding that the more content I actually consume on net, the less likely I am to produce.
I am coming to the realization...
That I am a magpie, and tumblr is the nest for my shinies.
