The Spoken Web
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/spoken.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIsn’t he lovely? Photo by Jurec, who found this Buddha “who really listens” in a Tempel in Hangzhou, China. www.pixelio.de Asia is listening as IBM India Research Laboratory tests the World Wide Telecom Web (WWTW), a network of VoiceSites you access by phone. In this alternative to the WWW, […]
It’s love, boys
Happy news deserves a serenade. R & J are getting married. So I’m celebrating with Carmen Borgia and his ukelele (3:25). marriage=love²: it’s love to the power of two when it’s based on true love, love squared when it’s not. You don’t get my love² nonsense? Sorry. Here’s a guide to reading exponents:
Down with TV
When I was a kid my dad was against TV, so I went over to Sarah and Nicki’s house to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. I still adore cartoons and the BBC, and I have a sentimental love for Tatort, but otherwise I hate TV, so I don’t have one. Luca has written a great […]
The Moth Ball
The Moth Ball (video report NYT) is an annual benefit evening for the Moth, a NY-and-LA-based organization dedicated to the art of live storytelling. Several times a month there is an event in some bar, café, community center, and people from all walks of life are invited to tell a true story. The Moth Ball, […]
Corporate welfare bums
Naomi Klein (“The Shock Doctrine“) wrote an article in Rolling Stone saying the bailout on Wall Street was “borderline criminal”. In a recent interview on Democracy Now she says the G20 conference in Washington was an epic lost opportunity. G20 reaffirmed deregulation. Banks such as Citibank and Barkleys want to buy up Chinese and Indian […]
Collective Obamism
“Each writer, each publication, seems to reach for more eye-popping superlatives. “OBAMAISM — It’s a Kind of Religion,” says New York magazine. “Those of us too young to have known JFK’s Camelot are going to have our own giddy Camelot II to enrapture and entertain us,” Kurt Andersen writes. The New York Post has already […]
Lisa Hannigan: Ocean and a Rock
Sea Sew by Irish singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan is full of references to separation by the sea, and has the warmth and charm of a handknitted sweater. “Ocean and a Rock” tells how the singer’s distant lover is part of her physical life, and its rhythms sound like the lapping of the waves. Some of her […]
