Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Also from Boing Boing, an eleoquent piece by john Perry Barlow about his daughter's accident. Barlow: Amelia takes a fall. Xeni Jardin: On his blog, John Perry Barlow writes about a serious accident that his daughter Amelia just survived -- and the sense of hope that, paradoxically, experiences like this can bring. Our best wishes for Amelia's safe and speedy recovery, Barlow. Link 10:56:05 PM

	Friday, September 10, 2004

Paralyzed: The Life of the Mid-Level Career Woman (Part II). Recently I read an article by Lisa Belkin in The New York Times Magazine about women with advanced degrees who had left the rat race permanently to raise their families. My first instinct was to feel envious of them. They had obviously married high-earning partners and could afford to live on only one income. And they had, politely, given it to the man by bowing out of his race. At the end of the article one of the women answers the rhetorical question, "Why don't women run the world?" "in a way," she said, "we do." I wouldn't disagree, but what about the rest of us working women who are single and childless? We don't have the contingency plan of raising a family and living our passions rent-free. Even those of us who are open to investing in our careers question whether we want to climb long, steep, career ladders ”with... [Pause] 7:09:52 PM

	Tuesday, October 14, 2003

I don't think I ever followed up on my Rick Smolan post of some months past. The America 24/7 project finally came to fruition, and we are weeks away from the launch of the first books. I wrote up the project, and its posted on the Seybold Reports site - this is a subscription-only link, but you can download a copy of the article as a pdf file here. 11:12:06 AM

	Monday, October 13, 2003

I met Halley Suitt at Bloggercon and we hit it off - at the end of the day nothing beats one-on-one in person friendships. We just talked on the phone for over an hour. Some people you can do that with and time just seems to fly, with others a 2 minute conversation can be like a root canal. She's a blogging star and my blog is so nada but hey, all of you who read her blog faithfully know that she is one hot chick and a Very Smart, Interesting Person in her own right. So if reading her blog makes you feel as if she's your best friend, know that in real life if you met her she probably would be. 4:02:32 PM

	Monday, May 12, 2003

Blackout. I have a lot of memories associated with power failures, and last night my power went out twice, very briefly, so they all came flooding out. In 1998, I lived with a roommate whom I'd known since age 12. We'd had a complex friendship. We still have it today, pretty much, though she hasn't responded to my latest email. That apartment started out to be a dream come true - huge, huge kitchen, two small bedrooms, nice big living room, one and a half baths, and a parking space for Ariel, my Honda. But things started going wrong - giant flood, septic system backup, sliding glass door in roommate's bedroom coming off its track and shattering. None of it was anyone's fault particularly, but I was nervous. And she threw me out. For about a minute, I believed that she was asking me to leave because she was afraid I would make a big deal out of the problems and we'd be out on our asses and she wouldn't be able to find a new place, because we weren't doing that beautifully as roommates, and it was unlikely I'd want a new place together. A night or two after she informed me I needed to move out basically immediately, the lights went out around 10pm. I can't go to sleep when the lights go out; I'm always afraid I'll sleep in, be late to work, screw everything up. So she and I went out into the living room with candles and played a trivia game. During the game, she confessed that she'd already offered the room to her old roommate from college. She didn't say specifically, but of course that was why I was out. He needed a place to live in Boston with his new wife; he'd gotten a job, they'd both always wanted to live here. The roommate was B. In three years, he and his wife had split, and there we were. Funny how things turn out. [The Redhead Wore Crimson] The blogging world is full of a zillion personal diaries, only some of which are interesting beyond that person's circle of friends, but The Redhead is an exception.  Maybe its because I lived for 15 years and one marriage near Harvard Square, or maybe its because its well written, but I find myself turning to it more often than not. 5:33:45 PM

	Tuesday, May 06, 2003

My friend Rick Smolan has a new project, America 24/7. Everyone is invited to participate.  It's one of his usual wildly ambitious can-we-all-get-along happenings that always seems to end up enriching our cultural heritage at the end of the day.  Participate in it!  Here's the pitch. America 24/7 What does it mean to be American? What do we believe in? How are we perceived by the world? Does Hollywood tell your story? The media? The government? Here's a chance to tell your own story with digital photos. How? Through an exciting new project called America 24/7 - an all-digital event that will capture extraordinary pictures of an ordinary American week. Produced by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, creators of the most popular photography projects ever - including the New York Times #1 bestseller, A Day in the Life of America - America 24/7 is the largest collaborative photo project in history and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Until now, only top pros could participate in Smolan/Cohen projects - and 1,000 of the best will shoot for America 24/7. But America 24/7 also offers amateurs and pros across America the opportunity to take digital photos and easily submit them via this website. Your photos will be judged by photography directors from America's top magazines and newspapers. And 10,000 of the best images will be published in 53 large-format volumes by DK, known worldwide for its distinctive, highly visual books. The America 24/7series includes a national volume (2003) and one for each state plus New York City and Washington DC (2004) plus TV documentaries, an engaging website and photo exhibitions... a great showcase for your photography. When? Shoot week begins at 12:01 am on Monday May 12th and ends at midnight on Sunday May 18th. Only pictures taken during this seven-day period will be considered. Compensation? If America 24/7's editors select one or more of your images, you will receive prominent credit and the knowledge that your photos are good enough to be published alongside pictures by America's top pros. (Your chance to be discovered!) You will also receive more tangible compensation including Adobe Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Album software and a copy of the book where your photo appears- a $180 value. If your photo is selected as the front cover of one of our 53 books, you also get an Olympus Stylus 300 camera, a Lexar 512 Mb digital memory card and an Epson Stylus Photo printer- an additional $850 value. To sign up go to http://www.america24-7.com/index.shtml. 11:34:05 AM