Category: Media
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Oct. 16th Superior Court 15B Forum: Judicial Temperament
youTube link to video on judicial temperament.
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Greensboro’s Chief Problem: Transparency in the Hands of the Blogsphere
Via Ed Cone, the consultant’s report (RMA) I posted on earlier is in the wild. An anonymously redacted and posted version is available on Greensboro101. Guarino has a nice precis of the report – says that the report is “remarkable because of its relatively narrow scope”. Now, the big question, at least for blogactivists: will […]
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Daily Tar Heel’s Excellent Use of Technology
Even the forward looking journalists at this weekend’s ConvergeSouth could learn a trick or two from our local university’s Daily Tar Heel. What a great mashup of raw data on drinking violations and mapping technology to simply demonstrate an evolution of a problem. Well done Tar Heel.
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Greensboro’s Chief Problem
An update from Ed Cone on my reference to the release of a report on Greensboro’s Chief Wray, his behavior in managing his department, and the eventual breaking of trust between him and the Council. The fall and rise and fall of the leaders of Greensboro’s police force are well documented in Jerry Bledsoe’s Rhino […]
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ConvergeSouth 2006
I really enjoyed Greensboro’s first ‘blog-con ConvergeSouth, an “unconference” that attracted quite a few interesting and/or notorious folks. Good conversation (no surprise as Anton “Mr. Sugar” points out that ‘bloggers are usually good conversationalist), good food and a chance to learn by interaction. Tomorrow’s promises to be even better. Elizabeth Edwards will keynote on “Building […]
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Whither the media? Recent national, regional and local gaffs…
National: Newsweek, in their Oct. 2nd issue lead story “The Rise of Jihadistan” reports on Afghanistan’s continuing “reversal of fortunes”: Jabar Shilghari, one of Ghazni’s members of Parliament, is appalled by his province’s rapid reversal of fortune. Only a year ago he was freely stumping for votes throughout the province. Today it’s not safe for […]
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Madison Smoozefest: Aaron Nelson’s “Phone Call”
Fred, one of the Madison attendees, over on OrangePolitics said he didn’t like my suggestion, given the organizer’s professed desire to “build relationships” – establish “synergies” amongst the group, that, for a few folks, there was a bit more to the Madison trip than simple learning or altruistic desire. Chamber of Commerce director and trip […]
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Weaver St. Market: Licensed for the Lawn!
Caught this young scofflaw just a short time after the private press conference announcing WSM’s new policy of “licensing” lawn performers. The, short notice, private press event, held by Ruffin Slater, general manager of the Weaver St. Market (WSM) co-op, and Nathan Milian, property manager of Carr Mill mall appears to have been short on […]
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Welcome to CitizenWill
Over the last year, I’ve written about 300 posts now split between campaign.willraymond.org and blog.willraymond.org Covering my 2005 Town Council campaign, I started with WillRaymond.org, a hopefully memorable Internet location for the local electorate to find both my platform and analysis of relevant issues. November 2005, I rebranded the site as Concerned Citizen, shifted the […]
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Hot Spot U.S.A.
With tomorrow’s temperatures forecasted to be above 100 degrees, Chapel Hill is going to be one very hot spot. As if centrally scripted, local news folks, punching up the drama of the weather story, have been issuing dire warnings not of the “real” heat but of the “felt” heat. “Think it’s going to be hot […]
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Barcamp Bar None
Saturday, July 22nd’s RDU Barcamp should be a yearly highpoint for the Triangle tech community. A “who’s who” of producers and consumers on ‘net-related tech will gather (@ 8 am as ibiblio’s Paul Jones notes) to thrash through some of today’s trendier tech topics. As local social justice activist (and newly minted groom) BrianR, over […]
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Copyright Comic Book
Local IndyWeek reporter Fiona Morgan covers the story of a “copyright comic” in the tech-oriented magazine Wired. Fair-use is an important tool for online activisim, as is copyright. Many online authors, for instance, use a Creative Commons content license to ensure widest dissemination of their message. To make the issue a bit more digestable, three […]
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One nation controlled by the medium…
Those who control the present control the past. Those who control the past control the future. – Orwell, author 1984 Those who control our modern means of communication are free to manipulate the past, recast the present and shape the future. Powerful, greedy, immoral – the masters of our converging media/medium empires already trample heavily […]
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The N&O on Internet Time
Acknowledging the futility of broadly (and blandly) reporting stock and bond closing prices, today the N&O announced: “Starting Tuesday, The News & Observer is changing the way it provides information on the stock market.” The good news? They plan to deepen and expand both local coverage and general analysis. I’ve been wondering how long the […]
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NC Lottery: Powerball is powerless…
11PM local news: WTVD 11 leads with today’s Powerball snafu problems. WRAL 5, after leading with nearly 4 minutes of ‘Canes news, covered the glitch. NBC17, bless their hearts, led with about 5 minutes of ‘Canes game review and didn’t make it to the State’s newest con-game until 6 stories in . NBC17 also deserves […]