I’ve been interested in the World War II Japanese Internment travesty since I learned of it as a near tot. Living in Chapel Hill I’ve had the chance to know some interesting folks, Eric Muller for one.
Eric, self-publisher and UNC Law professor is an internment expert. He often posts his research on that, [...]

Got this interesting article today from Consumer’s Union:

…analysis of fresh, whole broilers bought nationwide revealed that 83 percent harbored campylobacter or salmonella, the leading bacterial causes of foodborne disease.
That’s a stunning increase from 2003, when we reported finding that 49 percent tested positive for one or both pathogens. Leading chicken producers have stabilized the incidence [...]

Quick update for the special adventurers I left behind. Botolph’s Stone’s weather was beautiful this evening - 51 and clear. Had a nice walk, mostly after dark as we worked through ’til almost 6pm. Here’s some slideshow highlights:

Mr. E, be sure to click here [Google Earth] to see where I walked.

October is Energy Month

Five After Six

HiFi World

No Right Turn

Ghostwalk

I really enjoyed Greensboro’s first ‘blog-con ConvergeSouth, an “unconference” that attracted quite a few interesting and/or notorious folks. Good conversation (no surprise as Anton “Mr. Sugar” points out that ‘bloggers are usually good conversationalist), good food and a chance to learn by interaction.

Tomorrow’s promises to be even better.

Elizabeth Edwards will keynote on “Building On-line [...]

I submitted a panel proposal for Austin’s South-by-Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) 2007 titled Inciting Self-Organizing Mobs for Local Progressive Activism

Educated and opinionated, netizens are a fractious bunch. Rarely does on-line irritation translate into “real-world” local activism. With the proliferation of no-cost, net-based infrastructure and the power of the “long tail”, why do so few arm themselves [...]

Yes, I’ve been gone (thanks for the emails).
I’ve got a backlog of issues, posts, news, updates - enough to keep me going for a couple weeks. I’ll be trying to catch-up as I juggle new developments on:

This weekend’s ConvergeSouth unconference
Carolina North and UNC’s Leadership Advisory group
Updates on “Licensed for the Lawn”, “Madison: Smoozefest [...]

I’m stuck in a video culture. The immediacy of the message, the ability to project nuance, is quite alluring. Today’s low-cost of creation and dissemination has helped unleash citizen’s voices which otherwise would never be heard.
Yesterday, I featured Keith Olbermann’s Sept. 11th impassioned defense of dissent.
It was a strong, direct, thoughtful yet emotional [...]

Sure, I’m nearly 225 years behind the times cursing David Fanning’s troop’s drunken pillage of nearby Hillsborough, North Carolina but it is the thought that counts…

In the early morning hours of September 12, 1781, Loyalist David Fanning led 600 Tory militiamen on a daring raid of Hillsborough where Governor Thomas Burke had taken refuge. Taken [...]

Fall’s accelerating activity both weather and otherwise has slowed my ‘blog flow. It hasn’t been all work and no play as E. and I stretched our 7 year record of being the last out at the Exchange Pool.
Don’t worry, I have plenty to say on Carolina North, UNC’s Leadership group (of which I recently [...]

Following Mark K.’s lead in succumbing to some mid-Summer zaniness….
It appears Appalachian State University, located up in the North Carolina mountains [MAP], is also HOT! HOT! HOT!
Click to watch.
On a more serious note, what fearful impulse lead ASU to add a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) link to the bottom of each of [...]

With tomorrow’s temperatures forecasted to be above 100 degrees, Chapel Hill is going to be one very hot spot.
As if centrally scripted, local news folks, punching up the drama of the weather story, have been issuing dire warnings not of the “real” heat but of the “felt” heat. “Think it’s going to be hot [...]

Also, from our July 19 column: we regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek’s robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a “cyborg,” not a “robot.” Ken-Jennings.com regrets the error.
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