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September 21, 2006
Stories I Would Have Blogged if My Blog Hadn't Crashed Last Week
Wondering why I haven't posted a peep in about two weeks? It's because some of the online software that manages my site got screwed up. Fortunately, the good folks at iBiblio.org have reinstalled the necessary files, and it looks like we're good to go again.
Assuming I'd been able to blog during that time, here are some of the things I would have posted:
- I started my job at NPR on September 11th. So far, so good. Definitely a very cool, smart bunch of dudes there.
- Was invited to fill in for Andrew Baron at a forum hosted by George Washington University last Friday, where I spoke about user-generated content, Web 2.0 and social/political activism. Michelle Malkin was on my panel. Various liberal friends made lots of jokes ("Better wear garlic around your neck," etc.) but she was actually very nice. She even sung the praises of Rocketboom.
- Global Voices won the Knight Batten Award for innovation in journalism - very, very well deserved. Congratulations, everyone!
- I spent the last three days back in Boston for a public broadcasting conference in Cambridge, focused on open content. Some very cool, very smart people were there, including Jamie Boyle, Dan Gillmor, Yochai Benkler, Mitch Kapor and Mary McGrath. I gave a presentation about user-generated content, talking a lot about Digital Tipping Point and the Echo Chamber Project. Had a nice conversation with Gillmor about media literacy and 21st century citizenship; told Mitch Kapor that he and Robert Mugabe were the two easiest people to liveblog, while Yochai Benkler was the hardest.
- Speaking of Mugabe, Ethan Zuckerman is on holiday in Zimbabwe.
- A mysterious stranger (from Nokia, no doubt) sent Steve Garfield a Nokia N93 mobile phone, which shoots TV-quality video. They didn't send me one. I covet that phone. I invited Steve out to dinner last night in Cambridge with a plan to get him drunk, knock him on the head and steal his phone, but I chickened out at the last minute. I'm such a weak-willed criminal. Guess I won't be joining any thieves guilds anytime soon.
- Our friends Hallie and Diana are both about to burst and could give birth any day now. Kayleigh will no longer be the youngest baby in our social circle.
Posted by acarvin at September 21, 2006 4:32 PM
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