I’ve been receiving updates from a group called the p2p Foundation for the last few months. It’s an interesting group that is interested in the ways that peer-to-peer technology (technology that encourages the sharing of information and software among personal computers) can strengthen democratic participation. There’s a ton of information being passed around on their [...]
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Monthly Archives March 2006
Pigeon People a 16 minute success
I showed Pigeon People last Saturday night at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg. A bunch of friends showed up and it was great fun. It’s amazing how pigeons have been a popular subject lately. As everyone keeps reminding me, Susan Orlean wrote a piece about a 13-year-old pigeon keeper in The New [...]
Why do we care about blogging?
Something funny occurred to me the other day as I taught a bunch of ESL students how to blog (and this was not a good thought to have at this point in my process): why are we doing this? More specifically, why am I teaching these students learn how to blog? What need is it [...]
Why has it taken me so long?
I haven’t written in a while. I know, get over your anxiety, you’ll be fine. I’ve been wholly absorbed in the project I’m working on, now semi-officially titled “The Bronx Blog Project.” Say that three times fast. I’m making some progress — the students are blogging, I’m capturing it on video…
Wait a minute. Maybe I [...]
So much death!
Over the last two days, Gordon Parks, Dana Reeve, and Kirby Puckett have all died. What the hell is going on? And the capper is that South Dakota, for most purposes, outlawed abortion. It’s like somebody swept his dark hand across our land and announced “those who fought for social [...]
Feeling empowered
Last night I went to a great event hosted by People for the American Way (PFAW) and Demos called “The Republic of Blogs: New Media and Democracy.” I have to admit that at first I thought it would yet another discussion of the blogosphere vs. big media, and not a discussion of the [...]
