changing coverage

School shootings in Montreal… cell phone videos appear on YouTube, photos on Flickr, blogs galore on LiveJournal, not to mention VampireFreaks.com
Globe&Mail
All links provided by the mainstream media who are eager to deliver first hand accounts of events. User-created content takes on a new meaning?

I’ve been censored!!!

I sent the address of this blog out to some of my friends and family, including a journalist working in Guangzhou, China.  This is his response:
What on Earth did you put on your blog?  Declarations of love for the Dalai
Lama?  Your views on Taiwan independence?  The communists have blocked it!!!
Wow.  First-hand experience with the Chinese [...]

Sontag’s journals

“The ideal life: doing only things which are indispensable.”
Six pages of Susan Sontag’s journals were published in the NYTimes Magazine this weekend. Even an NYC intellectual had a soft spot for CA:
“In Calif., a stranger is a [potential] friend until he proves otherwise; in NY, a stranger is an enemy until he proves otherwise.”
Admittedly contemptuous:
“The [...]

Delightful resume tool

If you’re updating an old resume, prepping for an interview with a tech firm, or a nerd in need of a laugh, check out:
http://www.emptybottle.org/bullshit/
My favorites – incentivize, mashups, folksonomies

testing?

It’s been an agonizing decision, whether to blog or not… more difficult than figuring out whether to stay in The City or return to school this fall. After much hemming and hawing, web-hosting consultations etc, I’ve finally created a blog. Le Blog, in honor of my host city and the ever popular Franlish.
The [...]