Tuesday, July 26, 2005

ACLU sues to put Koran in the NC courts. Interesting that two recent anti-Koran-in-court letters to the N&R got beaten up pretty badly in the blog comments. 5:14:49 PM   permalink   comment []

Forbes: "Not Greensboring Anymore" Don't tell Card, but this town is on the way to making some magazine or another's list of cool places to live. Update: Ben Hwang says, "While we dropped from 37 to the 40th spot (dead last) in Forbes' major metropolitan areas for singles, I suppose that it's at least nice to know that we're in a metropolitan area." 5:08:22 PM   permalink   comment []

At the Truth and Reconciliation blog, a post from Commissioner Muktha Jost. Hearing from the panel members is a great idea. Ongoing confusion between the Commission and a support group with a far-too-similar name is a huge problem for the Commission and its professional staff as it tries to show that it is an independent organization, not the tool of one particular faction. I'm not sure everyone who criticizes the Commission wants to understand the difference between the groups, because the ongoing confusion allows them to disparage the panel and its work. 3:29:56 PM   permalink   comment []

Jeff Jarvis: "This is the official end of the mass market." 1:50:29 PM   permalink   comment []

The N&R is a finalist for the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, which recognize "setting new standards for interactive journalism, advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in their communities." Congrats to the folks on E Market St. 11:51:26 AM   permalink   comment []

Art Buchwald pegs his column to the News & Record's community journalism project...and then phones in pretty much the same material he's been writing for the last few decades. (Thanks for the tip, Karen.) 10:47:27 AM   permalink   comment []

Roland Tanglao and I talked about local blogging in Greensboro and beyond for a quick Dogma Radio podcast. 9:16:07 AM   permalink   comment []

Lisa and I are at Grown-up Camp. More an experience than a particular place, Grown-up Camp starts when the kids leave for sleep-away camps and the parents get to pretend they have lives of their own. Last week, Lisa went to New York and I stayed home alone with the dog; it was the most relaxing four days of my summer, even with a crushing deadline upon me. This is activities week. On Sunday we went to Saffron for rogan josh and large Kingfishers. Last night was Movie Night; Lisa, who generally prefers foreign films in which people smoke cigarettes and ride mopeds and hold long subtitled discussions of their ennui, laughed all the way through Wedding Crashers. Just two more days left. 8:41:36 AM   permalink   comment []

Lenslinger was on the County Commissioner beat, wondering why so many seemingly-normal people lose their minds when elected to office: "Something about achieving a local constituency makes eight out of ten well-meaning civic geeks go absolutely bat-shit." 8:02:28 AM   permalink   comment []