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Here’s some stuff lately that has interested me, bothered me or amused me in citizen media. Today’s episode of Rocketboom mostly reruns this thing some guys in Berlin did where they stuck a projector outside a train and showed movies on the

One of the shows I have added to my subscription list lately is the Small World Podcast. That guy really cranks them out, doing an interview most days. Damn, I can’t come close to that. Much like the G’Day World incident of yore, there are so

If you do a Google search on “evil genius” (even without quotes), I am the #2 hit. A few years ago, the top 50 or more were all about the computer game. Now I’m above all but one of those links. If you do a Google search on “evil&

I said something like this in the most recent podcast, but I wanted to inject this sentiment into the text blogosphere. Not only am I sick of hearing that we “shouldn’t play the blame game” but in fact anyone that I hear say it is being

It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, thank goodness, but Ophelia is now coming right through here. It is more likely to hit Wilmington NC, but landing at Myrtle Beach is quite possible. I don’t expect much drama in our neck of the w

Via Making Light comes this link to a (parody) article about a White House apology for the federal response to hurricane Katrina. The whole thing is funny in that way of a joke that seems to tell a deeper truth than the official “truth”. Here&

I have no idea of the price or the sound quality, but for people doing out and about interviews for their podcast, this microphone with onboard digital CF recorder looks interesting. It claims 6 hours life on 2 AA batteries, and records to either WAV or M

It’s a big ad, my god it’s big!

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 11, 2005. I talk about the “blame game” and how for some of us who live in potential hurricane paths, this is not a game but a basic question about whether

We’re hosting a party here tomorrow with a Mexican theme, and we’ve been cooking all evening. I made a big ass bowl of pico de gallo, my wife made spanish rice, this weird fruity salsa thing (weird but delicious) and now she’s making ga

Now I understand a little about why I was getting those weird drive-by insults on the original New Orleans post - that post is the #2 hit on Google for “new orleans jokes.” I’m getting hundreds of hits a day from Google for that search s

Here’s an update on the stuff packages charity drive. Since I made the offer Saturday, 6 people have taken me up on it. That’s an additional $150 in straight donations I will make to the Red Cross, plus another $150 in the match. If you’

I’ve had one of those Caesar Brothers songs - “Big Chief Sor Night and Day” - running through my head ever since I first heard it. I am humming it right at this moment. It’s get hints of “Iko Iko” in the melody and cade

I’ll admit that just doing normal things seems wrong lately. While I know intellectually that it does no one any good to walk around my life like a morose zombie, I still feel guilty. Doing the celebratory podcast yesterday made me feel quite a bit

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 6, 2005. I play songs from the Caesar Brothers and tell stories of fun times I have had in Gulfport, Biloxi and New Orleans. This episode is sponsored in part by the

Jim Macdonald posts on how command structures in a disaster are supposed to work.

Ironically, a week after I made a post about how great the participation on this blog is, since then I’ve had more comments that distressed me than I ever had in all the time before it. I finally turned off comments on the New Orleans post that has

Today I made a donation to the Red Cross. I looked at the EGC podcasting war chest, and decided to give $750 out of it. Because of the generosity of John Rogers, who is matching contributions to readers of his blog, it will ultimately work out to $1500. I

Poppy checks in so that at least her friends and acquaintances all know she and Chris are in Mississippi, safe if not sound. They are without power, but things there are not as dire as at their actual home. Although they are both alive, their animals are

The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school, it helps keep order — bad theory. And it’s not even a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand, because the narration was in German. - from the Geo