Thursday, November 11, 2004

Greensboro City Councilwoman Yvonne Johnson has a weblog. She seems to be part of the expanding blog community energized by Tara Sue Clark and Ross Myers, which includes weblog networks for the County Schools, North Carolina NAACP and the VFW of North Carolina. Greensboro is blog country. 3:49:39 PM    comment []

I don't know how the confrontation between the elderly woman and the Greensboro policeman really went down, but I did find this sentence by N&R staff writers Margaret Moffett Banks and Eric Collins to say a lot about Greensboro and the rest of this country in 2004: "Saudi was speaking English until police arrived, then began speaking Arabic and French. Two store employees, one who spoke French and one who spoke Arabic, asked the woman to leave the store." (emphasis mine) Used to be the only languages people spoke around here were English and its regional dialects. Now a random Wal-Mart reflects a Guilford County where about 100 languages are spoken. 3:37:35 PM    comment []

I'm teaching a class called Basic Blogging tonight at UNCG. Thanks to those who signed up for doing it all in one session instead of over two evenings, as I had to be in NY yesterday. Since this is something I would happily do for free, I donated my fee to BloggerCon. 9:38:39 AM    comment []

N&O: "Julius Hodge will never win a basketball game at Duke." Link via ACC Hoops Blog. 9:20:13 AM    comment []

Billy the Blogging Poet is writing a blog round-up for Triad Internet Connection. 8:59:12 AM    comment []

More major fallout from the Fortress Re scandal that wiped out two Greensboro fortunes and threatens the American Hebrew Academy. WSJ: "Deloitte & Touche LLP faces a potential $2 billion legal claim related to the type of earnings-management insurance products that are the subject of government investigations at other companies. The dispute involves Deloitte's audits of Fortress Re Inc., a closely held North Carolina insurance company." 7:58:01 AM    comment []