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Thursday, July 7, 2005
Word of wisdom 
| | Every day, shit gets invented. Peter Hirshberg just said that to me on the phone. That was right after he said something about how much better first person blog accounts were than "some anchorperson who knows nothing, filling time." |
Live wait
| | Why do we get these mountains of clothes? No one is freezing here. Instead, our tailors lose their livlihoods. They're in the same position as our farmers. No one in the low-wage world of Africa can be cost-efficient enough to keep pace with donated products. In 1997, 137,000 workers were employed in Nigeria's textile industry. By 2003, the figure had dropped to 57,000. The results are the same in all other areas where overwhelming helpfulness and fragile African markets collide. |
| | I have thoughts about all this, but they'll have to wait while missed deadlines are met. |
How can you ignore John Dvorak when
| | Or this, about 7/7. Or this about Karl Rove. |
Blogged and unaccounted for
| | Given how few degrees separate us all these days, it is sure many of us knows somebody... or somebody who knows somebody. |
Credits where due
| | Says here and here that Google will be doing a toolbar that will work with Firefox 1.x on Linux, OS X and Win2k/XP. |
Congrats
The pain that dare not speak its name
| | The issue of abuse in boys schools is close to home for me, though thankfully not inside the front door. We belong to the Catholic community that says mass every Sunday in the chapel at St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara. The community in the seminary and persists, although the seminary closed in the eighties. Stories about systematic abuse of boys by priests at the seminary (which was a boy's school) came out in the early 90s. Perhaps because the Franciscans dealt openly with the problem, or perhaps because it happened in a small city on the West Coast, the news didn't set off the cascade of disclosures that we saw in recent years, starting with reports out of Boston. Still, the sense of persistent tragedy haunts the site, the community, the alumni, the town, the Franciscans, the Church, and the rest of us. |
| | This latest story raises the number of people I have known for years who have recently revealed their own experiences with abuse by trusted authorities who serve, as the borrowed Latin puts it, in loco parentis. As for the total number of people I know whose lives this kind of abuse has touched, I couldn't count. (I just remembered that one of my best childhood friends also went to the same school as Larry, though many years earlier. If I'd had a good singing voice, I might have wanted to go there myself.) |
| | I won't add to what's already been said about the issue, other than to salute Larry for taking on what may be the most personally challenging case of his career. Also for doing a world-class job of facing and moving past his own original experiences. I can't think of a better way to prepare for a case like this one. |
Talk about attention
| | Our new news station here in Santa Barbara, KZSB (no website yet, far as I know), carried BBC news nonstop up until its live morning programming began at 6am. For half an hour I listened while watching CNN interview witnesses, occasionally switching sound. BBC was better. |
| | Reading or watching: Euan, Tom, Suw, Cory, et. al., Chris, Gavin, Tim, John, Andrew, Stuart, Goeff, Justin, Londonmark, Hugh, Yoz, Josh, UK Blogs Aggregator, Glenn's growing grouping, Tom, John, Wikipedia (remarkable), Guardian blogs... |
| | The conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue to spillover. These conflicts are not firewalls to the spread of terrorism, rather, they are training grounds for a new type of Blitzkrieg... |
| | Attacks of this type aren't aimed at the moral defeat of the UK's population. They are an "insult" meant to prompt more global fragmentation (an increase in military activity, isolation, and instability). Think in terms of "effects based" operations, particularly effects that damage the economies of target countries. |
I was overheard to have said...
| | ...last week's Gillmor Gang, featuring Doc Searls live from Max's on 101 (the phone next to the bathroom needs a new receiver, folks) raking Sun, Java, and Jonathan Schwartz over the open source coals with Dana Gardner. Then Doc takes on the Supreme Court, IT sphincters, and Verizon¹s WiFi debacle before bailing as Jon Udell explains his explorations of free-range innovation in the tagosphere and remix domains. |
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