Just a quick note — tapped out on my iPhone! — that the (very pregnant) wife and I are on vacation in Cape Cod this week, taking a breather from work and summertime life in Brooklyn.
We’ll be back next week, hopefully refreshed and energized. And maybe with a few more baby names on [...]
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Busy-ness is not depth
When I first discovered the enormous mass of online information and social connections lying beneath the surface of my seemingly tranquil life, I got pretty obsessed with the internet. But it seemed like nothing I could do could get me to that far-off, ill-defined place in which I’d achieve informational nirvana: all of my feeds [...]
Al Gore Eats Meat, And That’s Okay
Last week at Netroots Nation Jill Richardson, a food journalist who writes the awesome La Vida Locavore, asked Al Gore why he doesn’t finger out meat consumption as a major contributor to global warming (a few days ago I wrote about Ezra Klein’s response to that exchange). Richardson got a bit of press from her [...]
Now We’re All Public; Or, Self-Promotion Alert
This is funny. NowPublic, a “crowd-powered” media site, released a list (linkbait, anyone?) called the Most Public Index, a “detailed barometer of the most public news influencers of today’s digital world.”
Translation: here are fifty New Yorkers that use the web too much. The site pulled together stats about peoples’ presences on social networking sites and [...]
Meat Causes Global Warming
Al Gore showed up at Netroots Nation today and hurled hunks of progressive red meat at the audience, and they ate it up. But the other kind of meat — the one that comes from animals, not politicians — came up in an audience member’s question. Livestock farming and meat production are one of the [...]
Changing the Rules
Day Two (for me) of Netroots Nation and I’m a bit fuzzier-headed than I was yetserday, thanks to free Chimays at the HuffPost/GQ party last night and an unspecified amount of beers afterwards.
But I woke up here at a panel on health care and the web. Melinda Gibson from Health Care for America Now just [...]
At Netroots Nation
I’m in Austin at the Netroots Nation conference (formerly YearlyKos, but they wanted to imply more independence from DailyKos) and I have to say, I’m enjoying it more than I expected. Maybe it’s because I’m here with a specific agenda, but I’m loving hanging out with a community built around hardcore partisan ideas like [...]
Journos: funded
A few days ago I begged, no, pleaded with you to help fund David Cohn’s first experiment in community-funded journalism, via the the freshly-launched Spot.us.
It worked: Alex Madrigal raised $250 from folks like you and me to go out and research and write a piece on the role of ethanol in the California energy industry. [...]
