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North Carolina Drought 2008

By On February 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

By now the bad drought the South Eastern United States is experiencing is old news. We are already in stage two [PDF] water restrictions here in Orange County, North Carolina. But today I found a map that blew my mind. North Carolina looks like the worst hit overall than any other state right [...]

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NCSBC 2008: Open Science Session Video

By On February 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Here is around 80 minutes of video I shot at the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. This session’s full title is Open Science: how the Web is changing the way science is done, written and published. The discussion leader was Dr.Hemai Parthasarathy (former editor at Nature and PLoS). Because of length and [...]

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NC Science Blogging Conference 2008: Opening

By On January 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is the opening ceremony of the 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference. I’m working on two other sessions I recorded. A total of three hours of video content.

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Jim Neal in Cabarrus County, NC

By On January 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I shot some video of the Cabarrus County Democratic Women Annual Fundraiser for Candidates on January 12, 2008. Here is what Jim Neal had to say.

side note: blip.tv does a better job than YouTube of encoding flv. Thus it looks better here IMHO than it does over at YouTube.

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Video: Why Jim Neal is going to Win

By On December 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I went to a fundraiser for the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal. Shot a some video of him speaking. Its so great to have a progressive North Carolina Democrat running against Sen. Dole. I hope to get some more video of him as he campaigns. Stay tuned. (BTW… I donated my time [...]

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Techies Building Community in RDCH

By On December 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

So I told you about the creation of SocialCarolina.org the other day. Its a google calendar and blog about local tech events here in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. (That includes Cary, Carrboro, RTP, Morrisville, etc.)

Well.. some of the coolest events recently have been happening at the new Refresh the Triangle. [...]

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EVENT REMINDER: Meet Congressman Brad Miller

By On November 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Please Join Congressman Brad Miller

For a discussion hosted by Ruby Sinreich of OrangePolitics.org and Brian Russell of Yesh.com about the impact of blogging on today’s political environment.

When: Thursday, November 29, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: Mill Town Restaurant, 307 E Main St, Carrboro, NC

Suggested Donation: $10
Cash Bar

Congressman Brad [...]

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Stop Media Consolidation

By On November 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Watch this Bill Moyer’s video about the latest FCC attack on our media freedom. It explains the threat very clearly. Such amazing footage of the Seattle FCC hearing held recently.

More info here on Freepres.net. Bipartisan Bill to Put the Brakes on FCC

If you are on Facebook consider joining the 100,000 [...]

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Social Carolina: Tech Events Calendar

By On November 18, 2007 · 1 Comment

Wayne Sutton is on top of local tech events in our area. So a couple of us asked him to create something to keep track of these events. He set up a blog at socialcarolina.org and I created a google calendar. Plus we have the Twitter user RDCH to follow and stay [...]

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Meet Congressman Brad Miller

By On November 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ruby and I are sponsoring a get together for Congressman Brad Miller at Mill Town in Carrboro on Thursday November 29. Its a great opportunity to chat with someone who works for US in Washington, DC. He’s a blogger, an incredibly nice guy, and interested in what you’re doing. Please join us in [...]

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