Earlier this week, Michael “Brownie” Brown, former head of FEMA, testified in Congress about the Hurricane Katrina disaster. From the transcript:
SHAYS: Did you ask for a higher authority to help you out? You’re the head of FEMA, but if the governor and mayor aren’t paying attention to you, I want to know who […]
Archive for September, 2005
Interesting conversation over at Abject Learning in response to a post by
Brian Lamb about, specifically, Technorati woes, and, more generally, faculty frustration with technology. More eloquent folks than I have already weighed in on this, but I feel compelled to add my two cents.
First, how lucky are Brian’s faculty to have someone like him […]
Lawrence Lessig blogged about this presentation by Dick Hardt at OSCON2005. I’ve decided that the next time I do a workshop on Powerpoint at UMW, I’m going to be showing part of this. And I’ll also show part of Lessig’s own Free Culture presentation.
A couple of observations:
Both Lessig and Hardt made me […]
Came across Scipionus.com via Wired today. The creators of this site have created a “visual wiki” that people can use to record conditions in areas struck by Katrina. They’re using the Google Maps API to allows tagging of locations. The tags are at the same time fascinating and heartbreaking.
One of the tags led […]
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