Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Here in Greensboro, people get caught up in the politics and construction schedule of the Civil Rights Museum. A visitor from Los Angeles sees it more clearly. 9:55:59 PM   permalink   comment []

Wikipedia and steak knives, via the versatile Mr. Conover. 9:35:08 PM   permalink   comment []

Even if Greensboro has a net job gain from the Jefferson-Pilot sale to Lincoln, it looks like there will be cuts here, too, according to the Philly Inquirer (free reg. req.): "Boscia said...jobs would likely be consolidated at operating units in Greensboro; Hartford, Conn.; and Fort Wayne, Ind., rather than Philadelphia, where employment is likely to grow over time." 9:28:17 PM   permalink   comment []

Home. 9:02:35 PM   permalink   comment []

Blog post on improving bomb-threat security earns Mount Airy college student a visit from the FBI. 4:07:42 PM   permalink   comment []

ConvergeSouth Saturday night coverage. Sounds like the Alana Davis gig at Solaris turned out well. 1:38:59 PM   permalink   comment []

Yahoo! adds blogs to news coverage. 12:57:12 PM   permalink   comment []

Troublemaker on St. James Homes: "This is not just an African Americans vs. Police problem...over there around the 1300 block of South Eugene Street. It is Greensboro's problem." 12:50:04 PM   permalink   comment []

Open meeting: Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Community Dialogue, Saturday, November 5, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 1301 Alamance Road. Maybe you'll see Keith Holliday there. From the TRC blog : "The goals of this event are:  To give the community a voice in the Commission’s final report recommendations · To help the community, including the Commission, to better understand the issues surrounding the events of Nov. 3, 1979, and how they are connected to our present and future. · To lay a foundation for community bridge building over time." They're looking for facilitators, too. 12:25:45 PM   permalink   comment []

Off to NY for a story meeting. Y'all be sweet. 6:59:03 AM   permalink   comment []

DarkTimes: Tierney says, "Journalists and legal scholars have been decrying 'cronyism' and calling for 'mainstream' values when picking a Supreme Court justice. But how do they go about picking the professors to train the next generation of journalists and lawyers?" Lots of liberals in law and journalism schools, and it's self-perpetuating. Well-documented, if irrelevant to the Supreme Court discussion, except as payback to his base by Tierney for his stinging anti-Miers post last week. Kristof on Niger, "a good place to ponder the failings of a system of international aid that is often irrational and catastrophically inept...A crucial mistake is our refusal to provide substantial agricultural assistance to increase African food production. Instead, we ship tons of food in emergency aid after people have already started dying. It's like a policy of scrimping on manhole covers because we're too busy rescuing people who fall into manholes." Politics and greed play their roles. More: "Above all, we need a major new international initiative to extend the green revolution to Africa. Farmers in tropical Africa get only 1,500 pounds of cereal grain per acre, compared with 4,900 pounds in China. Pedro Sanchez, an agricultural expert at Columbia University, has estimated that Africans could triple food production if they used modern seeds and methods." Kicker: "Unless we help start a green revolution in Africa, we'll be back in Niger year after year - and every village will be surrounded by more tiny graves." 6:58:17 AM   permalink   comment []

Conover on Converge: "I'm ready to go out and get 'Wiki' tattooed on my ass inside a heart with an arrow through it." Also, G3head, Dave Johnson (third of three posts, software designers are so thorough), Jim Buie, Brian Leon, Mickey McLean... ...lots more, including poetry, from Billy Jones, henceforth known as The Perfesser -- he made some wise comments in a session, preceded by "I'm not a journalist but...," and another participant then referred to him as "the professor"...maybe it's the beard? 6:50:33 AM   permalink   comment []

"You got it wrong, Melanie." N&O executive editor Melanie Sill lectures Jay Rosen in a blog post. In the comments, Jay fires back. Sill rightly argues that there's plenty of good journalism out there, but that's a straw man in relation to Jay's point. And yes, the other N&O quote he cites was taken out of context by the paper as well. 6:40:53 AM   permalink   comment []