December 2005
Abby Christopher on Games Tackle Disaster Planning
When the next enormous disaster hits, you can be sure of one thing: relying on the regional or federal government to respond is stupid. But how can we train local people to be first, and maybe final, responders? Abby Christopher writes at Wired about video games that help people learn what to do in various disasters: [from Wired News: Games Tackle Disaster Training] Don’t worry ...
Dec 15th
A Kinder, Gentler Blogosphere
Wow. I have been traveling back and forth across the US the past two days, and completely missed this piece. Apparently Mena Trott gave a sort of odd (to be kind) talk at Les Blogs (again, I am glad I didn’t go), where she called for a “nicer” blogosphere. Then some casually minded guy, Ben Metcalfe, disagrees with the thrust of the talk in the IRC backchannel, which was...
Dec 7th
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RSS Readering: Why RSS Readers Are No Good For Me...
I am constantly fiddling around with RSS readers and various strategies for “RSS readering” — William James remarked that you coin a new word at your own peril, so verbing “RSS reader” may be dangerous for me, but I do so with a plan. I want to be an RSS reader: by which I mean to say that I would certainly rather (in theory) receive alerts about posts and...
Dec 1st
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