Year: 2007

  • David Brooks Writes of "Brave New War" and the Open Source Insurgency

    David Brooks writes today of John Robb, writer of the weblog Global Guerillas and the book “Brave New War“. Robb is former Air Force, is a tech guru, and knows of what he speaks. God bless us all. The Insurgent Advantage – New York Times Robb observes that today’s extremist organizations are not like the…

  • Bat in Mid Air

    Bat in Mid Air, originally uploaded by juggernautco. At Logan Square, Chicago, on Mother’s Day

  • Double Wesley Willis

    Double Wesley Willis

    I compiled a lot of images and price information from manay sources. This type of compilation and annotation is a primary art activity on the Web.

  • NYT Anonymity Project Update

    So I have been using Yahoo! Pipes, Google Reader, and Twitter to find and collect “anonymity because clauses”– the reasons why reporters at the New York Times have given a source anonymity– for about a month and a half now, and I’m pretty pleased with the results. I’ve got 66 separate reasons why a person…

  • After the Alert: Bus Shooting on 103rd

    My brother and I are planning a relaunch of his site, CTA Tattler. One of the features we want to add is, "after the alert", which would be follow-ups on the story behind an alert we received on our wireless notification utility CTA Alerts. Here’s one: Yesterday at 4:16 PM, we got the following alert…