I’m listening to the reading of the Declaration of Independence on NPR this morning as I read the news.
I am not encouraged as the two hundred and thirty two years old litany of complaints echoes through my head and I compare them to the nature of the recent news an analysis (see the clippings at [...]
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NPR’s new media guy, Andy Carvin, was loaned a Gigapan camera rig from Carnegie Mellon recently. I followed his excitement about the chance to take great high-resolution panoramic photographs of Washington on Twitter. Yesterday he broadcast that he was taking it to Washington’s Union Station. Not much later he was sharing in near-real-time a confrontation [...]
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