I was surprised when I looked back over previous posts here and found that I hadn’t written anything about the amazing duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. I first became aware of Gillian Welch with her duet of I’ll Fly Away (with Alison Krauss) in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou. I [...]
My mother, who lives in Los Angeles, has been telling me about the new, young conductor of the LA Philharmonic and his involvement in music education for disadvantaged kids but it didn’t really sink in until I watched some YouTube videos (see below) of performances by the youth symphony that he directs in his native [...]
This Thanksgiving day feels a bit melancholy to me. We’re in a time of radical change and the stresses and strains are being felt all over. This song, by Stephen Foster, is from hard times of another era (the great depression of 1850), yet speaks eloquently of bringing empathy to people of all circumstances. That [...]
WordPress is a great publishing platform but I find its editor to be rather cramped and not very conducive to actually writing. The editing window is only 10 lines high by default and there are lots of other panels, checkboxes and drop-down menus competing for your attention while you write. I wanted an editor that [...]
What’s next for the web: A kid’s eye view
Latitude and ReadWriteWeb recently partnered in a study, in which kids 6-12 years old were asked to share their ideas on future web development concepts. Latitude also produced this video, summing up the key findings and illustrating the kid’s tremendous capacity for innovation. The written results were published in two parts, plus a study summary: [...]