Derivative Works

Author: DXO

  • Blogger as Intranet

    I use Blogger for a number of personal projects and some commercial work, but the one Blogger blog that I have posted to the most is my intranet. Here’s how I use it: I map a Blogger blog to a folder on one of my URLs that is hosted on a normal cheap but powerful…

  • Cool News Pics

      Berwick Bon Fire    Originally uploaded by coolnewspics. Here’s a great Flickr person who collects and annotates Cool News Pics. Worthwhile stuff.

  • The Individual Beats Nature in Solitary Battle, Then Saved by People Who Care and Are Working Hard

    In just about any disaster, this is one of the stories that inevitably comes out of it. It is immensely human, and goes to the core about what the news can do for us– provide an example that we are loving, that if we just work hard, we can contol things, that we have a…

  • Journalists Are Our Poets

    So lately I’ve been trying to focus on propagating and really explaining just a few core ideas that I have. One of them is Open Source Emergency Response. Another is the idea that journalists are our poets. Since my late teens, I have identified myself as an American Poet. It has been a central point…

  • Here’s to Hoping

    I am praying for the 20,000+ dead in the earthquake affecting Pakistan et al. And sending out a special prayer that Osama Bin Laden was one of them.