The Sunday New York Times recounts a recent significant legal ruling upholding the right to photograph people in public places: The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph. This is an important article, with application to the grassroots media world, so I’ll quote from it at length. Excerpt: In 1999 Philip-Lorca diCorcia set […]
81 photos of SXSW Interactive
Just finished uploading my Flickr photo set of 81 images taken at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, this past week. Above are Andrew Michael Baron of “Rocketboom,” Ian Clarke of Freenet, and Lacey Chavez of LaceyChavez.com. I’ll post a separate photo set of the SXSW Music Festival tomorrow. Technorati tags: sxsw […]
Bruce Sterling on the state of the world
Author Bruce Sterling gave a keynote address at this week’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. In this 25-minute video excerpt, which I filmed on Tuesday, he discusses "The State of the World," politics, Serbia, international affairs, deceit, living out of your laptop and much more. This is the first video footage I […]
Bobby at 6
Our son, Bobby, turns 6 years 11 months old next week, and already he’s 51 inches tall and 52 pounds. (Average weight, but as tall as most 8-year-olds, says here.) Snappy dresser, too.
McClatchy buys Knight Ridder: thumbs up
Landed in Austin at midnight for four days at the South by Southwest Interactive and Music festivals. Just checked into the Homestead hotel across the river from the convention center, jacking in through cheap but shitty wi-fi. Blogging will be light this week. I’m very happy to see the news that my former employer, McClatchy […]