In my previous job, I was responsible for promoting civil society activity on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, a set of development targets agreed to by the governments of the world in 2000 at the UN General Assembly. It’s an important list of commitments to combat some of worst social ills — including poverty,…
Month: October 2006
Salon on the Net Neutrality and the “telecom slayers”
There’s a couple of nice quotes from my colleague Ben Scott, policy director at the media reform group Free Press, in a Salon.com story on Net Neutrality entitled "The Telecom Slayers": In his Capitol Hill office, Scott keeps a small framed photo from the movie "Cool Hand Luke." It is the famous scene where…
Get your SL events posted on New World Notes!
I’m excited to report that I’ll be contributing to the pre-eminent blog on all things Second Life "New World Notes" run by the intrepid embedded journalist, Hamlet Au. Specifically, I’ll be covering the "events of the week" section, helping point residents to interesting and fun happenings that they might want to participate in. More info…
Monday cuteness: Tina and Ike
My girlfriend has sweetly brought over two six-week-old kittens for me to foster for a couple of weeks until they can be properly adopted. We’ve christened them Tina and Ike, with Ike obviously being the more aggressive one and Tina more touchy-feely. They are about the perfect size for cat juggling, but aren’t good for…