Monthly Archives: December 2008

Conference of the Birds, 2008-12-23

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“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM.  It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.

The last half hour of this week’s show features a few of my favorite holiday tunes.

complete program (136 MB, 2 hrs 28 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

Eri Yamamoto Trio: “Dear Friends” – Redwoods (AUM Fidelity)
Junior Mance: “The Simple Waltz” – Happy Time (Original Jazz Classics)
Randy Weston Trio: “Chessman’s Delight” – Jazz à la Bohemia (Riverside)
Nostalgia 77 Octet: “Desert Fairy Princess (Alternative Take)” – One-Offs, Remixes and B-Sides (Tru Thoughts)
Marty Ehrlich: “The Black Hat (for John Carter)” – Can You Hear a Motion? (Enja)
Michael Formanek: “Cloak and Dagger” – Wide Open Spaces (Enja)
Mark Dresser Trio: “For Bradford” – Aquifer (Cryptogramophone)
Amir ElSaffar: “The Blues in E Half-Flat” – Two Rivers (Pi)
Fieldwork: “Path of Action (for Horace Tapscott)” – Your Life Flashes (Pi)
Mary Lou Williams: “Willis” – Mary Lou’s Mass (Smithsonian Folkways)
Duke Ellington: “Breakfast Dance” – Jubilee Stomp (Bluebird)
Jimmy Giuffre 3: “Off Center” – The Easy Way (Verve)
Ellery Eskelin: “Penalty Phase” – Ramifications (Hatology)
Hoyt Ming and his Pep-Steppers: “Indian War Whoop” – Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
Art Farmer/Donald Byrd/Idrees Sulieman: “Palm Court Alley” – Three Trumpets (Prestige)
Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble: “Stomp and the Far East Blues” – Snurdy McGurdy & her Dancing Shoes (Nessa)
Ken Field: “Slits in the Curtain” – Under the Skin (Innova)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: “Crumb Puck You Let Slide” – 21st Century Union March (Silkheart)
Paul Bley Trio: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” – Introducing Paul Bley (Debut)
Ramsey Lewis Trio: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” – Sound of Christmas (Verve)
Jimmy Smith: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” – Christmas Cookin’ (Verve)
Ramsey Lewis Trio: “Christmas Blues” – Sound of Christmas (Verve)
Stevie Wonder: “The Christmas Song” – Someday at Christmas (Motown)
Ella Fitzgerald: “Sleigh Ride” – Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas (Universal)
Aretha Franklin: “Winter Wonderland” – Joy to the World (Sony)
Mahalia Jackson: “Silver Bells” – Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas (Sony)
Stevie Wonder: “One Little Christmas Tree” – Someday at Christmas (Motown)

links for 2008-12-22

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  • Drinking the Chicago Way – WSJ.com
    “The delightfully vulgar Blagojevich affair has inspired some Chicago bartenders to commemorate the moment.… But if (im)peaches are going to be at the heart of any Blagtail, it may be hard to beat the Cohasset Punch, a drink that for decades was the essential Chicago cocktail, and whose most notable feature was its garnish: half a canned peach.”
    (tags: chicago cocktail)

links for 2008-12-20

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  • Berkman Publication Series – Media Re:public – Home
    “The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of innovative new media organizations have sprung up to take advantage of the opportunities that stem from low-cost distribution networks. Meanwhile the economic base of many of the large media companies continues to erode. Despite the demonstrated success of many new media enterprises, the euphoria over the rise of participatory media has been tempered by concerns over the quality and credibility of online media, the possible fragmentation of audiences, a decline in editorial standards and the persistent challenge of effectively reporting the news. Over the past year, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have reached out to a broad range of media experts to help in this assessment of the changes in new media over the past several years and to take a sober look at the successes and ongoing challenges.”
    (tags: journalism research media)
  • Postal Service Tells Gift-Givers Not to Help Santa – NYTimes.com
    “For decades of Christmases, it had been a gratifying way to function as a substitute Santa Claus. Every holiday season, thousands of New Yorkers trooped to Manhattan’s main post office and sifted through heaps of dream-encased letters that children had scribbled to the big guy at the North Pole. They picked out the ones that tickled the heart and responded with gifts for otherwise empty stockings. ¶ Then came Thursday.”
    (tags: christmas newyork philanthropy)
  • xkcd – A Webcomic – Flow Charts
    “A Guide to Understanding Flow Charts Presented In Flow Chart Form”
    (tags: funny comics via:timoreilly)
  • Holy Crap: The Unhappiest Place on Earth : Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com
    “Holy Land is sorely lacking in kitschy self-parody. The park’s best gags are in the small details, easily missed. Like the baby strollers in the shape of a Jesus fish, or the Frankincense and Myrrh sold at the gift shop (for the low price of $8). Our favorite attraction, tucked behind a gift shop, is the “Day in the Life of a Monk” exhibit, which is basically just a room with an empty cot.”
    (tags: religion amusementPark florida via:Chicago_Reader)
  • Monkeys beat up trainer with his own stick | Metro.co.uk
    “The dazed trainer confessed: ‘They were once wild and these performances don’t always come naturally to them. They may have built up some feelings of hatred towards me.’ “
    (tags: weird via:aruzin monkey)
  • Toujours Tingo: Weird words and bizarre phrases – Telegraph
    “Toujours Tingo, a book by Adam Jacot de Boinod, lists weird words and bizarre phrases from around the world. The “tingo” of its title is an Easter Island word, meaning to borrow objects from a friend’s house one by one until there are none left.”
    (tags: language booktagged book:isbn=9780140515862)
  • Op-Ed Columnist – The Madoff Economy – NYTimes.com
    But the costs of America’s Ponzi era surely went beyond the direct waste of dollars and cents.

    At the crudest level, Wall Street’s ill-gotten gains corrupted and continue to corrupt politics, in a nicely bipartisan way. From Bush administration officials like Christopher Cox… to Democrats who still haven’t closed the outrageous tax loophole that benefits executives at hedge funds and private equity firms… politicians have walked when money talked.

    Meanwhile, how much has our nation’s future been damaged by the magnetic pull of quick personal wealth, which for years has drawn many of our best and brightest young people into investment banking, at the expense of science, public service and just about everything else?

    Most of all, the vast riches being earned — or maybe that should be “earned” — in our bloated financial industry undermined our sense of reality and degraded our judgment.

    (tags: commentary economics)
  • How to Make Candied Ginger – David Lebovitz
    The great thing about candying your own ginger is that aside from the fact that you can make it without the aid of the dreaded thermometer, you get plenty of spicy slices from just a pound of ginger. Once candied, it can be stored in its own spicy syrup or drained and tossed in sugar. And if you really want to put it over-the-top, dip pieces halfway in dark chocolate.
    (tags: recipes candy ginger)
  • Op-Ed Contributor – Extinction-Level Television Event – NYTimes.com
    But the generation immediately after mine has never known life without cable, and the generation after that won’t know a life without streaming video. Having only three TV channels to watch must sound as quaint to them as radio plays do to me. Today’s entertainment universe provides endless variety for every demographic and taste, and the things that everyone actually wants to watch together are few and far between.
    (tags: commentary television)

links for 2008-12-19

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  • I’m A Lefty And I Like Obama’s Pick Of Rick Warren : NPR
    “So in walks Obama. He’s a blue state guy, of course. But he’s getting us to do what seems impossible: to listen to what’s best in what the other side is saying, because then you hear the shared values, and the other side isn’t another side at all. That means you put Rick Warren up on the stage with you, _because_ he disagrees with you. Yet he’s there celebrating the moment when a person becomes a president of all the people. To progressives, Rick Warren is a symbol of views they disagree with. To the rest of the country, Rick Warren is a symbol of “the purpose driven life” that he’s written about, a life lived for something larger than yourself…a value liberals completely share.”
    (tags: barack_obama queer inauguration_2009)
  • The Facebook Virus Spreads – No Social Network is Safe – NYTimes.com
    ‘”Koobface” is the name of the Trojan worm that’s been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site’s users, it’s been simply known as “the Facebook virus.” That name will soon become a misnomer, though, because the worm is now spreading outside of Facebook’s walls to attack other social networks like Bebo, MySpace, Friendster, MyYearbook, and Blackplanet. ‘
    (tags: facebook socialnetworking malware)
  • Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data – NYTimes.com
    “Privacy advocates said that the new policy was a step in the right direction and credited the change to pressure from European regulators. But they said that Yahoo’s method of scrambling I.P. addresses by deleting their last eight bits was inadequate to guarantee privacy.

    “That is not provably anonymous,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Mr. Rotenberg and other advocates said that companies should delete the entire I.P. address, an approach recommended by European officials. Currently, Microsoft deletes the entire I.P. address, while Google deletes only the last eight bits.”

    (tags: internet privacy yahoo)
  • Did Cheney Confess to a Felony?—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
    “CHENEY: I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.”
    (tags: torture dick_cheney)

links for 2008-12-18

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  • Iowa town’s roads well seasoned — chicagotribune.com
    “ANKENY, Iowa – Slush has never smelled so spicy.

    “City crews in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny are using garlic salt to melt snow and ice on streets from Tuesday’s storm.

    “The salt was donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a top spice producer headquartered in Ankeny.

    “Public Works Administrator Al Olson says the company donated 18,000 pounds of garlic salt to use on its 400 miles of roads.

    “Olson doesn’t have details, but he says the salt would have ended up in the landfill, so the company donated it. A telephone call Wednesday to Tone Brothers wasn’t immediately returned.

    “Olson says the city mixed the garlic salt with regular road salt and it works fine. He says some road workers say it makes them hungry, but Olson doesn’t recommend it to spice up lunch or dinner.”

    (tags: funny food via:aruzin)
  • Obama: The College Years – Photo Essays – TIME
    “In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio. “
    (tags: barack_obama photography)
  • Change.org: End Winner-Take-All Electoral College
    I posted this admittedly wonky idea that I’ve had for a long time to Change.org. It’s probably too late to get enough votes, but go ahead and vote for it anyway!
    (tags: democracy electoral_college voting)
  • “Ray LaHood? Really?” (UPDATED) | Progress Illinois
    “There are now two possible conclusions one can draw from the choice: either Obama doesn’t intend the DOT secretary to do the heavy lifting on his transportation policies or he doesn’t really care about transportation. During the campaign, Obama made some bold statements about transit and the energy economy, so I’m not convinced the latter has any merit. The former seems more plausible. In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait and see what LaHood has to say on Friday.”
    (tags: transportation)
  • Happy Holidays from First Round Capital
    Venture capital company pays tribute to Matt the Dancing Guy with video of people from all their companies dancing. Cute.
    (tags: video holiday)
  • Twitter / Clay Shirky: the is a defnite article, …
    “the is a defnite article, teh is a definitive article. something that is teh suck isn ‘t merely sucky “
    (tags: language clay_shirky)
  • IT Conversations | O’Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference | Eric Rodenbeck: Information Visualization is a Medium
    “In what Rodenbeck claims as only the beginning, he foresees a future where information visualization will be both analysis and spectacle, subtly combining beauty with an unlimited ability to explore and play with data. Mimicking McLuhan, Rodenbeck also suggests that the process of visualization is embedded within culture and when dealing with massive amounts of data it becomes difficult to predict what conclusions are possible. For Rodenbeck, that means the visualization must allow, even encourage, people to “play” with data and hopefully draw their own conclusions.”
    (tags: visualization podcast information)
  • PURE – Providing Advocacy and Training to Empower Parents, Schools and Communities
    WHAT: We will be blowing bubbles in Federal Plaza to send a message to President-elect Obama and Secretary of Education nominee Arne Duncan about what parents and teachers value in education, and about the change we need for our schools and our children, that is, taking the focus off of standardized “bubble” tests and returning public schools to their real purpose, providing our children with a full, rich, empowering education.

    WHEN: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm.

    (tags: chicago activism education arne_duncan)
  • cityofsound: Postopolis!: Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen
    “Based in San Francisco, Stamen work with flows of data, ideally massive amounts of data in real-time. They introduce a mapping and information design sensibility to this, and construct meaning from these flows.

    “Central to their approach is their belief that, as Rodenbeck puts it, “data visualisation is a medium – not a technology”. That is, it has conventions, gestures, constraints, techniques, even jokes. Rodenbeck runs through a few of these, including the percentage of pie chart that resembles Pacman. By this point, he’s warming to his theme, an irrepressible New Yorker unfurling words and concepts as if he were his own real-time data flow. Fortunately, he assembles meaning from himself in real-time too.”

    (tags: design visualization mapping information)
  • CATALYST CHICAGO :: News & Analysis :: Duncan’s track record
    “In his seven years as CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan has taken on a host of urban education policy challenges to varying degrees of success.

    “This week, Catalyst revisits some of these signature initiatives, and weighs their significance on the national scene.

    “Today, we look at the efforts of the Secretary of Education designate to transform high schools, offer families more and better school choices and raise the performance bar for teachers, principals and administrators.”

    (tags: chicago education arne_duncan)
  • Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy
    “This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others’ privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely.”
    (tags: facebook policy privacy)
  • Derek Powazek – Making The Bloody Thing Up
    “In 1992, the features editor of Autocar magazine decided to play a little joke. He rewrote the ledes of the stories in the year-end “Road Test Yearbook” so that the dropcaps spelled out a message for attentive readers, spread across many pages.”
    (tags: funny design magazines)

links for 2008-12-17

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  • 2008 Innovators: Miles Cleret – eMusic Spotlight
    “Soundway began more or less by accident. I’ve always collected records, and I eventually started DJ’ing and doing parties. About 11 years ago, my wife and I were traveling in Ghana. I was in a DJ’s house one day, and he played me one incredible record after another. I hatched the idea then and there of going home, putting out an album, and seeing if anybody was interested. Luckily, somebody was. But it began with my urge to save, reissue, remaster and tell the story of this great Ghanaian music.”
    (tags: interview music soundway)
  • Citizen journalism will shape the new face of the Oakland Press – The Oakland Press Opinion: The best place for news in and around Oakland County
    “In starting The Oakland Press Institute for Citizen Journalism, we are trying to tap into this movement as a means of improving our bread-and-butter franchise of local news and sports coverage.
    …
    There are ways for readers to help tell stories better, quicker and more completely.
    …
    That is why we will be offering anyone who is interested — from high school students to retirees — instruction in news writing, videography, basics of reporting for news and sports, and still photography.

    For those who complete the instruction, we offer the opportunity to get your work published online or in the print edition. This experience would be especially helpful for high school and college students viewing careers in the communications field. In addition, others can work toward becoming members of our freelance stable of journalists.”

    (tags: journalism citizenjournalism michigan)

Conference of the Birds, 2008-12-16

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“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM.  It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.

Not a lot of commentary for this week’s show.  Note that the DKV Trio is playing a rare show tomorrow night at the Hideout that is likely to be great.

complete program (132 MB, 2 hrs 24 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

David Eyges: “Crossroads” – Crossroads (Music Unlimited)
Tony Malaby Cello Trio: “Scribble Boy” – Warblepeck (Songlines)
Henry Threadgill: “Off the Rag” – Rag, Bush and All (Novus)
John Coltrane: “Greensleeves (Alternate Take)” – The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (Impulse)
McCoy Tyner Trio: “Effendi” – Inception (Impulse)
BassDrumBone: “Wooferlo” – Wooferlo (Soul Note)
André Jaume/Charlie Haden/Olivier Clerc: “Anouman” – Peace/Pace/Paix (CELP)
Oliver Nelson: “Lou’s Good Dues” – Takin’ Care of Business (Prestige)
Richard “Groove” Holmes & Gene Ammons: “Morris the Minor” – Groovin’ with Jug (Pacific Jazz)
David Holland Quintet: “Metamorphos” – Points of View (ECM)
Either/Orchestra: “Embi Ba” – Live in Addis (Buda Musique)
Nicole Mitchell-Black Earth Ensemble: “Off the Clock” – Vision Quest (Dreamtime Records)
Eight Bold Souls: “Dervish” – Eight Bold Souls (Open Minds)
Mucca Pazza: “Modutrongulous” – Plays Well Together (self-released)
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: “Brown Skin Girl” – Forked Tongue (Cuneiform)
Eternal Buzz Brass Band: “Pelham (Theme)” – Evolution (Ropeadope Digital)
Cootie Williams and his Rug Cutters: “Echoes of Harlem” – Back Room Romp (Portrait)
Fats Waller: “Brother Seek and Ye Shall Find” – I’m Gonna Sit Right Down (Bluebird)
DKV Trio: “East Broadway Run Down” – Trigonometry (Okkadisk)
Will Holshouser Trio: “Blue Light Special” – Reed Song (Clean Feed)

links for 2008-12-16

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  • Shoofender! – Free Shooting Game from AddictingGames
    Defender clone with fun graphics and sound. Think Dmetri Martin.
    (tags: games flash via:bssmot)
  • CHICAGO HISTORY
    Mission Statement: To provide a portal of Internet websites relevent to Chicago history.
    (tags: chicago history blog)
  • Velvel on National Affairs: Re: Fitzgerald and Blagojevich.
    ‘Wouldn’t it be a hoot if a Chicago federal trial judge were to deny efforts by Blagojevich to introduce evidence of the “widespreadness” in Chicago of Blagojevich’s style of speech, and to deny examination of Fitzgerald and company by Blagojevich’s lawyers, with the ruling of denial being encapsulated in a two word Chicagoesque ruling, “Fuck that.”’
    (tags: chicago rod_blagojevich language peter_fitzgerald)
  • NPR: The Shoe As A Campaign Metaphor
    “To paraphrase his relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Bush looked into the eyes of an Iraqi journalist and saw his sole.”
    (tags: politics)
  • YouTube – 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
    “You’re going to work harder than you ever worked before. But that’s fine, we’ll just get tougher with it! If a person grits his teeth and shows real determination, failure is not an option. That’s how winning is done! Believe me when I say we can break this army here, and win just one for the Gipper. But I say to you what every warrior has known since the beginning of time: you’ve got to get mad. I mean plum mad dog mean. If you would be free men, then you must fight to fulfill that promise! Let us cut out their living guts one inch at a time, and they will know what we can do! Let no man forget how menacing we are. We are lions! You’re like a big bear, man! This is YOUR time! Seize the day, never surrender, victory or death… that’s the Chicago Way! Who’s with me? Clap! Clap! Don’t let Tink die! Clap! Alright!”
    (tags: mashup video youtube)
  • isen.blog: Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality
    “Finally, it is funny that two of the WSJ story’s five named sources, Rick Whitt and Larry Lessig, either don’t remember saying what the Journal quotes them saying or feel their words were twisted and taken out of context. How can this be good journalism? This is not the first time I’ve been in an expert position to see the WSJ engage in gotcha-reporting.”
    (tags: technology internet google netneutrality wall_street_journal)
  • Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas
    “In 1968 Stewart Brand launched an innovative publication called The Whole Earth Catalog.It was groundbreaking, enlightening, and spawned a group of later publications.

    The collection of that work provided on this site is not complete — and probably never will be — but it is a gift to readers who loved the CATALOG and those who are discovering it for the first time. “

    (tags: whole_earth tools reference)
  • The Superest: Who is the superest hero of them all?
    The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat. ¶ While guest artists may appear, the Superest is mainly drawn by Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter.
    (tags: games illustration superheroes via:me3dia)
  • Obama’s Lunch Love: Manny’s Deli : NPR
    “The president-elect orders corned beef and cherry pie to go. Now there’s a stimulus package. Manny’s corned beef sandwiches are large enough to have their own electoral votes. “
    (tags: chicago barack_obama food)
  • techPresident – OFA 2.0 Still A Work in (Hidden) Progress
    “The true power of what was built by the Obama campaign is not just in the numbers of emails collected or donations collected, but also in the number of people activated and connected to each other. Individuals, and small house-party meetings, inputting their data up to a central office don’t add up to as much power as a visible, multi-centered, network of individuals and groups talking to each other and hammering out common plans. By merging its organizing smarts and its technological smarts, the Obama movement has the potential to be something much greater than its parts. It remains to be seen whether it will live up to that potential.”
    (tags: barack_obama democracy obama_for_america)
  • 2008: The Year of the ‘Stache – Urlesque
    Mustache skate boards… Mustache wedding…Mustache pint glass… Mustache cocktail (“The Tom Selleck”)… Mustache and beard cap… Mustache on a stick… Mario mustache chart… etc
    (tags: funny 2008)
  • 8th Annual Year in Ideas – Avian Dancing – NYTimes.com
    ‘What’s most interesting to Patel is that this ability is present in birds but not in primates, our closest animal relatives. “This is no coincidence,” he says. Patel says dancing is associated with our vocal abilities, not musical hard wiring. Humans and parrots are two of the few species with brains wired for vocal learning — hearing sounds (like words), then coordinating complex movements (lips, tongues, vocal cords) to reproduce those sounds. Other animals who have this ability: dolphins, seals and whales. “In theory,” he says, “they may be able to dance, too. We just don’t know it yet.”’
    (tags: science dance birds)
  • Op-Ed Contributor – A Ballot Buddy System – NYTimes.com
    “Here’s a bipartisan solution: an electoral vote buddy system. Red and blue states of similar size should pair up and pass state laws to apportion their electoral votes by district.”
    (tags: democracy voting electoral_college)

links for 2008-12-15

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  • Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate, and Health – O’Reilly Radar
    “From a business point of view, you make more money the more you process food. From a biological point of view, food gets less nutritious the more you process it.”
    (tags: interview food video michael_pollan)
  • A Closer Look at the Titillating Report on FCC’s Martin : House Energy and Commerce Committee Paints
    “The committee’s 110-page report is broken into five sections and concludes with pages of e-mail and other documentation. It’s a fascinating read and confirms what many in the communications industry suspected, but couldn’t outright say: that Martin had it out for cable operators, commanding people below him to rewrite a specific report until it showed the findings he wanted, while allowing at least one telecom services provider to collect more public subsidies than necessary. Plus, Martin, like his boss, Bush, didn’t like his people talking to folks outside of the FCC — whether that be press or other agencies — so he muzzled them. All of that added up to create a culture of distrust even among Martin’s four fellow commissioners, preventing the commission from doing its business in the public’s best interest.”
    (tags: fcc)
  • Chicago Underground Library – Home
    “The Chicago Underground Library is a project that aims to create a location-specific archive of self- and small press-published works from the Chicago area. Through a searchable online archive and a physical space, it will open new opportunities for research, inspiration, and collaboration among those in and outside of the publishing community. By putting fiction, critical journals, zines, poetry, comics, political pamphlets, and art books side by side, CUL hopes to bridge the gaps resultant from stratification along the lines of content, production value, and commercial viability.”
    (tags: chicago zines libraries)
  • Chicago Reader | Hot Type | Chicago Needs a New News Model : And here are a couple ideas—just add cash.
    ‘Beers explains, “What we did was sort of unpacked what the newspaper of record has been.” It’s been the sum of many parts, among them entertainment listings, lifestyle columns, and service pieces. “And all that coexists with the serious discussions about holding power accountable, helping civil society work through its next steps.” To Beers, this was the part that really mattered, and he saw shrinking newspapers throwing it over the side.’
    (tags: chicago journalism seattle vancouver)
  • Tweet Congress
    Index by state, party, etc of federal legislators using Twitter Only 38 so far…
    (tags: government twitter congress)

links for 2008-12-14

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