Dave Winer does something a lot of us want to do (uh…besides software development), especially during fundraiser weeks on public radio and television stations–he tries to get some answers from WBUR, a local National Public Radio affiliate, about their finances.
Someone hit my blog today searching for “Ban the Agony of Alice.” My hackles are standing up. It’s Banned Books Week, one of my favorite weeks as a librarian and, well, as an intellectual. The week is a celebration of intellectual freedom, the freedom to read, not a week to ban [...]
Blog reader Jim sent this my way asking what kind of school assignment the boy in this photo was given that took him out into Hurricane Isabel. As we discussed the photo, we started talking about related issues, like why Time would select the photo when it doesn’t seem to be that related to [...]