Like a complete pinhead I realized after reading everyone’s post about their proposed project I had forgotten to list a couple of links giving some idea of what I have found.
The first one is by a guy named Timothy Gaffney who has a website about aviation that includes a link to African-Americans in aviation but [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Links for Semester Project
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Choice of Banner Heading
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The illustration on the top of this blog reminds me of my favorite description of Great Britain by George Orwell, “Britain is a nation of long shadows on County cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and Old Maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.”
Actually I would dispute “warm beer,” despite what [...]
Interesting New Book
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A professor at Harvard Law School, Jonathan Zittrain, has just published a new book with Yale University press entitled The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It in which he argus that the Internet is moving towards a much more closed and “sterile” digital world. As you can imagine the backlash has been siginificant. [...]
Catch-up from Alan
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is my first blog post for a few days, 11 to be precise and I am now playing catch-up. I listened with great interest to all the comments in class last Monday (15th) about blogging and found myself agreeing with many of them. It is tough to force yourself to sit down and write [...]
New UN website employing Goggle Earth
Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have just been to a briefing on this new partnership from some UN folks. Yet another example of how the ‘new media’ technology is being used today. Check out the link.
UNEP uses Google Earth to Put You in the Cockpit of New Eco-Monitoring Service
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=545&ArticleID=5909&l=en
On another note, I have read some of the other comments [...]
