Stephen Farrell, the British New York Times journalist kidnapped for four days last week, has written a candid and vivid account of the ordeal and his rescue. Gripping.
Winston the Carrier Pigeon
Low-tech. Faster than broadband in South Africa, apparently:
A company is to start using a carrier pigeon to transfer data between its offices – because bosses believe it will be quicker than broadband.
IT experts at a firm in South Africa said it takes up to six hours to transfer four gigabytes of encrypted data between two of its offices which lie 50 miles apart.
Today staff at the financial services company will save valuable time by instead having the information transported by a homing pigeon named Winston.
Content Archive
I’ve just imported almost everything I’ve ever blogged, which makes for a nice baseline and a good way to kick off this blog. I’ve been writing at my own project, The Complex Terrain Laboratory (CTlab), for the last two years, but I haven’t maintained a personal blog separate from it. I’ve experimented with a couple, but nothing that really stuck. Interesting how much that had to do with whether I wanted to invest time and effort in a particular URL/brand. Monkwire feels like a good fit, especially as a place to park all that archived material. There are some limitations on the content import. Many posts were images or videos, the contents of which didn’t migrate. I’ll delete those as I sift my way through. Some posts are updates or backgrounders for CTlab events, which don’t really stand alone as content for this site. They’ll go, too, when I come across them. Categories and tags are also an issue: everything prior to 10 September 2009 is uncategorized and untagged.
Starting Fresh, Importing Content
A bit thin on content right now, but over the next few days, I’ll be migrating copies of most of the posts I’ve published at CTlab over the last two years. Stand by.
Are Bloggers Bound by Professional Ethics?
Apparently not (always). Maybe the bigger question has to do with what we should expect of “bloggers” as a category of media actors – and where to draw the line between blogging and journalism.
Hodge: Of Kidnapping, Milblogs and Blackouts
MICHAEL A. INNES 