So, I started out strong, or relatively strong on this blogging front but then I fell apart fast. I saw Arianna Huffington speak at the National Conference for Media Reform this weekend. Not only does she have a blog that gets updated many times a day, she has readership and turns a profit. Not that I am looking for this little enterprise to be profitable, I just need to get better at writing down my mental “tags.”
Mary has been trying to get our whole department at work to use delicious, a social bookmarking site all year long. I signed up for an account, and have used it a few times, but I haven’t really gotten into it. When I logged on the other day, I see that she has been sending me links all this time using the site, including some suggestions for this very blog. I am using borrowed internet right now, so I don’t think that I can write a few long blog posts (its also one in the morning), but I will work through those links soon…I promise.
For now, you can watch this video from the conference I went to this past weekend.
It is Lawrence Lessig, giving the most impressive use of a powerpoint presentation I have ever seen, talking about why we need to reform congress, east-coast and west-coast code (the constitution, and computer code). While this presentation might only be tangentially related to this blog, he was one of the founders of the Creative Commons movement, talks about the internet, and just check out that powerpoint. (It may lose something that you can’t see him in all of this, just his slides, but you have to imagine that he was doing this all at the same time, the images weren’t added to the lecture after the fact.)
Stay tuned to Paradessence for killer robots, king kong meets godzilla, the future of the internet, and more.
-P
