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Random Acts of Cyber-kindness
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 09:40Yesterday morning, I saw that Cronulla was a top Technorati search. I followed the link and read about the riots in Sydney. I read a bunch of the news articles and a lot of blog entries about the riots. I added comments to various blogs and talked with my wife about how the riots were not showing up in the U.S. news.
Today, the riots are the top World News story on Google and it is showing up on CNN. I’m not sure why this has jumped out to me the way it has. It seems as if it has something with increased intolerance and lack of civility in our society today.
"Just to sing…"
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 12/11/2005 - 09:19“Just to sing…”
“Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair”
No, it isn’t Abu Ghraib or march to Guantanamo by Catholics to protest treatment of terror suspects there that has brought these lyrics to my mind.
It is the death of Senator Eugene McCarthy that brings these words to mind.
” Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing”
Yesterday, I was at a meeting of people working to Draft Lowell Weicker to run as a Democrat against Joe Lieberman. Weicker served his first term in the Senate in 1972. Gene McCarthy had just left the Senate. Some of the folks who were at the meeting had ‘Come clean with Gene” in 1968.
Good bye to 'the land of the free'
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 18:04Hossein 'Hoder' Derakhshan is perhaps one of the most important bloggers in the world today. He was born in Tehran and has written many great posts about the struggle for Democracy in Iran.
Today, I received an email on a list about blogging and journalism from Hoder talking about a blog post he wrote a couple weeks ago about his latest attempted trip to the United States.
Be careful about what you write in blogs, the land of the free is a little less free and somehow this makes me feel less safe in our country.
R.I.P. - Jude Nagurney Camwell's mother.
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/07/2005 - 10:15My thoughts and prayers go out to Jude and her family.
Online Shopping Alone
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 12:36Jon Lebkowsky writes about an article in the latest issue of Business Week talking about “Generation @”. If those who came of age in a world where everyone has an at sign in their email addresses are called Generation @, then I wonder if I should refer to myself as part of “Generation !”. After all, my first networked email address was on Usenet using an exclamation point to separate the userid from the hostnames.
Jon talks about how many conversations he’s been in with other consultants and online entrepreneurs who've predicted the imminent death of social network platforms. I’ve participated in many such conversations as well, and I suspect that my conversations on the subject have significantly overlapped with Jon’s conversations.
