Author: Ruby Sinreich

The mind boggles

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At this year’s National Technology Conference offers even less internet connectivity than past years. Although I was able to use wifi in the common area, today it is password-protected! In the hotel rooms we are asked to pay $16/day for a wired connection.

I’m told that presenters will get a pass word for their session, which especially sucks for people in the last session on the last day. But it also sucks for me in the first session because I am on in about 90 minutes and I need the Internet to prepare for and to do my session.

O, the irony of N-TEN’s promotion of the 06NTC tag for aggregating conference content. How the hell are we supposed to publish any content?

I need some coffee.

Why Not

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Why Not
A few years ago, my aunt (who has worked as a technology administrator in the Austin, TX school system for decades) bought some land and started ranching part-time. She has about 10 miniature cows and bulls, 5 miniature donkeys, and 2 normall bulls.

Since her husband died last year, she has dedicated even more energy to the Why Not ranch.

See you in Seattle

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Next stop on my March Madness World Tour: Seattle and N-TEN’s 2006 National Technology Conference.

I will be leading a panel featuring the illustrious Alexandra Samuel and Victor D’Allant. We will be in the first session of the first day of the conference so don’t misss out. You snooze you lose. 😉

During the same time slot, we are up against a “speed geek” session on Online Advocacy Tools and it appears that the program (at least online) does not list the people behind each session, so please spread the word!

Here’s a rough description:
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Today’s protest and more

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As promised, I’ve uploaded about 30 photos of today’s third annual protest on the anniversary of the Iraq War in Fayetteville, NC, home of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. I also posted a few remainders from Uruguay and Texas.

Me at the Museum (and former home) of Juan Zarillo, poet, patriarch, and national hero of Uruguay. The Rio de la Plata is in the background.
Yo al Museo Zarillo

Radical cheerleaders!
Radical cheerleaders
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A-marching we will go

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For the 3rd year in a row (2003, 2004), Brian and I will be joining thousands of others in Fayetteville on the anniversary of the Iraq War. There’s no better place to be than among the veterans and military families and other activists from North Carolina, which dubiously claims to be the “America’s Most Military Friendly State,” – whatever the hell that means.

Last year there were some real spooks taking our pictures, and all I had was my phone to return the favor. This time I plan to bring a real camera and document things more properly.

Hope to see you there!

Mark Warner wants blogger love

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One of the several SXSW “parties” that I attended on Sunday was hosted by folks working for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. He’s been making presidential noises, and he has a John-Edwards-like ability to talk about his Christian family values, etc, etc. Personally, I don’t have any reason to favor him over Edwards in ’08, but that’s a long way away.

Anyway, in the above picture from that event I am hanging out with Joi Ito, Halley Suit, and Doc Searls. Doc is an old old friend from when we lived in a little hippy community outside of Chapel Hill in the 70’s. In those days, he was called “Doctor Dave” and was known for his clever quips, some of which mimeographed and posted on everyone’s fridges.