Uneasy Rhetoric

I just got finished reading highlights from the latest Digital Future Project report from the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. The findings are mildly surprising: 39.8 percent if Internet users agree that going online can give people more political power while 61.7 percent of respondents, which includes both Internet users and non-users, [...]

I just posted a lengthy screed over at My Urban Vista taking on an editorial in the Sunday Oregonian that, as I put it, “takes Portland’s near mythic urbanism and reduces it to narcissism.” I realize sometimes it must seem as if I love Portland more than Sacramento and if so, why the heck did [...]

Throughout Midtown Sacramento, you’ll find old-timey lamp posts that have been wrapped in red ribbon and topped with a wreath. I took this picture late this afternoon at Winn Park at the corner of 28th and Q Streets. All of the lamp posts around the park were decorated. I will be putting additional photos up [...]

ScottB commented on my previous post with a link to a site that, in fact, uses Google Maps to create zip code overlays. You can zoom in and out. If you’re looking at one zip code and want to find out what the neighboring one is, just click somewhere outside the zip code boundaries. I’ve [...]

I was going back through my archives just now and came across a sonnet I wrote in response to a Valentine’s Day contest Rebecca MacKinnon was running. Unlike most of the sonnets I’ve written over the years, I still like this one. In fact, it grows on me by the day. So, Narcissius like, I’m [...]