Tag: Culture
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Hotel Rwanda
We watched Hotel Rwanda last weekend. We skipped it on the big screen – sometimes we let movies slip by, even though we know we want to see them, especially when we know they’re going to make us sad or angry in the end. I’ve been having a hard time all week putting into words…
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Hurricane Katrina People Finder – Volunteers Needed
Already gave your money? Give some time by turning bunches of bulletin board posts spread all over the Internet into a searchable database to help people find their friends and family. Start here. Sit on your couch, relax, and help people with a little data entry. [tags]Katrina, help, peoplefinder[/tags]
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SJSU takes in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
On Friday, the San Jose Business Journal reported that the CSU system is throwing open the doors to any students from Gulf Coast states displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and to California students who had planned on attending schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. SJSU President Don Kassing sent out this message late Friday. [tags]SJSU[/tags]
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Trickle-Down Technology
In discussions about international communication, I often hear the argument that neither this “blogging” thing in specific nor the internet in general are not on the radar in places like Africa, where they “don’t even have phones, much less internet access” (or so goes the myth). The people who expound on this sort of angle…
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Laptop Riot
CNN reports: Panic Ensues In Rush For Cheap Laptops. from CNN.com (AP/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Okay folks, this is pretty good proof that people want technology to be more affordable. The next time a school system sells its used laptops off ($50/iBook), PLEASE CONTACT ME so I can research what the people DO with the darn things.…
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Vernal Falls, Yosemite I started writing a post about our vacation that read like your Uncle Maurice’s slideshow about the recent RV tour he and Aunt Mable took of America’s National Parks. I have abandoned the slideshow post, and offer in its stead the following clear and concise unordered list of questions and answers: Is…
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Spike Lee Podcast
Back in film school, we all heard Spike Lee speak at least once or twice. I believe he was on his way to a Yankees or Knicks game most of the time, but Spike still managed to pass along plenty of good advice. Check out the first of four podcasts shadowing/interviewing Spike while he works…
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Lester Rodney and Disruptive Journalism
Lester Rodney, at the time a sports writer for the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper published in New York, was pushing for the desegregation of baseball long before Jackie Robinson pulled on a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Sunday about the now-retired Rodney, and their Back Story Podcast has…
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Summertime Rolls – Recent Photography
Yesterday we headed north a good solid ten minutes to Davenport. When I talk about what I liked about living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I always tell people that you could drive ten minutes out of town in any direction and be in the middle of nowhere. In Santa Cruz, there’s three directions to choose…
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Ethics and Global Marketing in Venezuela
I’ve posted a paper I wrote on Venezuela for an Anthropology class this summer on my Other Writing page. I’ve done my best to keep this paper as balanced as possible, trying to show how the current political culture in Venezuela has defined how the nation interacts with American corporations in certain cases. I do…