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Rising Tide IV

August 14, 2009

Rising Tide IV, the annual bloggers conference on the recovery and future of New Orleans, will be “Sinking to New Heights” on Aug. 22 at the Zeitgeist Multi Disciplinary Arts Center in New Orleans. Our featured speaker: the multi-talented Harry Shearer, a great champion of New Orleans on Huffington Post and elsewhere, along with panels [...]

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The Fourth Rising Tide Conference

July 24, 2009

Next month marks the fourth anniversary of the failure of the New Orleans levees (a distinct and separate disaster from Katrina, although most outside the region do not know it).  It is also the fourth year of the Rising Tide Conference, a gathering spearheaded by the New Orleans blogger community to examine   and address [...]

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Rising Tide IV

June 21, 2009

Ready or not, the fourth annual Rising Tide conference will be on Saturday August 22 at the Zeitgeist Theatre in the Central City area of New Orleans.
Originally launched by members of the NOLA Blogger community on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the Great Levee Failure of ‘05, I’ve watched this conference grow every [...]

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Computers and Writing: Lessons in Literacy from the New Orleans Blogosphere and the Composition Classroom

March 30, 2009

Essay by Daisy Pignetti, November 28, 2008 in response to Principles of a New Media Literacy, published by the Publius Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

In 2006 I wrote a piece about the burgeoning New Orleans blogosphere for the launch of Placeblogger.com. The crux of that essay, and of the [...]

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Real Time Activism – Social Media In Action!

March 14, 2009

This is a guest post by a fellow blogger here in New Orleans, one of the few that shares my background in music production – New Orleans Slate (@macfitte on Twitter). Usually Slate’s writing, like that of all New Orleans bloggers, is concerned with the circus sideshow of government and rebuilding in the wake of [...]

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Where I’ve Been and Where I’m Going

March 8, 2009

Yes, I am still alive despite rumors to the contrary. The past few weeks have seen me combating a major sinus infection, Mardi Gras (and the attendant house full of people), and some top secret projects.
Now is the time to unveil some of the news: My lovely and talented wife has been accepted to grad [...]

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Ray Nagin: Twitter, Emails, and Yet More Controversy

February 17, 2009

You know, politics is something that I keep off this blog as a general rule. The main exception being looking at the implementation of web 2.0 at the governmental level. This time I have to make an exception because it is all tied together by social media.
Our *ahem* flamboyant Mayor is known locally for the [...]

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