August 2006

Day 363: Rising Tide Conference – Think New Orleans

August 26, 2006

Alan Gutierrez unleashes the wrath of using the Internet to communicate and plan effectively. A set of freely-available tools and concepts critical to the thud! factor this city needs, meet Think New Orleans. Some pre-reading on concepts introduced in this talk: The Long Tail Online Volunteers Digital Divide Meanwhile, Ernesto is in the back of [...]

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Day 363: Personal Viewpoints at the Rising Tide Conference

August 26, 2006

10:30am Personal Viewpoints The second session of the Rising Tide Conference in the beautiful, hurricane-and-flood-ravaged Lakeview. Mark Moseley is the moderator of this panel which consists of Dr. G, Josh Britton, Greg Peters, Lois Dunn and Ashley Morris. Greg Peters vs. Ashley Morris with Dr. G in the mix? Celebrity Deathmatch, y’all! This I’m going [...]

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Day 363: Liveblogging From The Rising Tide Conference, Part The First

August 26, 2006

9:25AM Keynote address by Chris Cooper and Robert Block The following are snippets from the morning’s first address by the authors of Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security. Full video and audio streams available post-conference. Chris Cooper (CC): “The federal government knew full well that this was going to happen. They didn’t [...]

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Day 362: Tell Me What You Really Think Of Nagin, D

August 25, 2006

Whoa, stop the presses! I’ve never seen Mr. Qualudes For Blood this enraged about anything. “Nagin, that MF! F*** Nagin, that piece of s***. Eddie was a good cop. The ‘good’ cops respected him, he worked his way up from the streets and he was ‘clean.’ Nagin SOLD Eddie’s a** down the river for his [...]

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August 25, 2006

August 25, 2006 – A comment on Jeff Masters’ Wunderblog states, “Hopefully Ernesto will be a Nagin-specific storm and target just him and his house or whatever luxury hotel he’s holed up in. A nice Cat 5 with a 1 foot diameter eye and hurricane force winds extending out to 40 feet should do the [...]

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Day 362: Ernesto Mon Amour, Amanda Mi Amiga

August 25, 2006

And here I thought a deadline at work and the Rising Tide conference was stress enough for one week. No, no, Ernesto (the first name of Che Guevara, incidentally) winds his way westward through the volcanically-created isles of the Caribbean. VatulBlog’s weather source assures me that Ernie will make landfall on the Yucatan peninsula. The [...]

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Day 361: You Can Feel Me Coming Through The Air Tonight

August 24, 2006

I will appear on tonight’s Radio Open Source, the last one interviewed in an episode entitled Houston After Katrina.  “The Katrina Diaspora In Houston” would sit a little better with me, given that Houston isn’t suffering that much from the influx.  From the sounds of it, however, Chris Lydon and his team have done a fair job addressing [...]

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Day 361: Taking Names

August 24, 2006

Joel alerts me to a horrifying story in the Shreveport Times.  Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children … The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [is] considering filing [...]

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Day 361: Five Days Until K+1

August 24, 2006

My first guest post at Sepia Mutiny: Salutations From The Third Coast! My latest post at Metroblogging New Orleans: Litterbugs Need Not Apply Rising Tide Conference this Saturday.  Social from 5-8pm the night before at same location.  Be there, just so you can figure out the difference between N. Roadway St. and S. Roadway St. [...]

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August 23, 2006

August 23, 2006 – WSJ.com Opinion Journal: The Fertility Gap – Liberal Politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply  Perhaps this is why my mother brought up the topic of “more grandchildren” recently.  Alright, get cracking, Alan, Bart, Ben, brimful, Chai, D, Dave, Jeffrey, John, Julie, Loki, Oodles, Oyster, Saheli, Schroeder and [...]

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