The last thing I wanted was to own and drive a minivan — a gold Dodge Caravan that looks identical to its two million or so brethren on the highway and in every parking lot in town. But it was what I needed. Four years and a few weeks ago when we bought the van,…
I’ve never been afraid to go places few women have gone before, and to take names and kick butt. Thanks to my father, I learned to rebuild the engine in a 1964 Dodge Dart so I had a car to drive in 1974. (I named it Rocinante and aimed it at windmills.) I won’t reiterate…
A bit more about what we are up to at NOWCastSA: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3700903&w=425&h=350&fv=loc%3D%252F%26autoplay%3Dfalse%26vid%3D2391537] more about “Exploring the World of Online Journal…“, posted with vodpod
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3521962&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "Clean Energy Forum", posted with vodpod
Here’s what I wrote to them tonight after I found out from my dad that Caremark CVS has delayed my mom’s cancer medicine. They didn’t say why or what for. No explanation, just no delivery to the drugs that will help keep her alive – drugs to keep her white blood cells going. What in…
We’ve chosen core components of the NOWCastSA home page, and it’s fair to say we’ve been inspired by the way some other folks have designed their sites. Here’s what we like and why. Because video is an important element of the site, we’d like to be able to feature it prominently. Perhaps it might look…
What you see here is a word cloud, created in Wordle.net of the 50 words President Obama used the most in the remarks prepared for his chat with school children tomorrow. Here’s a link to the text of the prepared remarks. (The cloud image links to details of how it was made.) Here’s one message…
As a Unitarian Universalist, I have a tough time embracing the Original Sin metaphor in the discussion about where news organizations went wrong online. Yup, there have been a lot of failures. But what’s getting lost in the discussion is a very real record of some game-changing innovation and achievements. Progress, it seems to me,…
My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner. That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me. I remember her describing the day in 1981 or…