What happens when a senior at Western Oregon scores her first home run and then collapses shortly after passing first base? Something extraordinary.

Brought tears to my eyes.

Seal has done a great many good things. They are one of the few remaining feminist identified publishers in the US. They’re no longer independent and are owned by a much larger publisher, but I think they are still capable of doing good things. Because of the things I’m about to mention about them it should be clear they are receiving a very special ass-whuppin’ over their editorial standards and how they are or could be construed to be racist.

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This is via Making Light, who in turn got it from Warren Ellis.

Clay Shirky argues (I think wisely) for the idea that we are growing as an international (first world?) society is growing into one where we will stop just watching media, and will expect to be interactive with our media. He thinks the wave’s about to break.

Video and transcript behind the cut.

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(assuming you have a domain you can control/create subdomains on)

I just set it up. Took about 30 geeky minutes, including a 20 minute call in which I was attempted to be recruited about a job in Northern Virginia.

It’s two php scripts, a very little console work, and if you’re hosting on Dreamhost and running PHP as CGI, some additional cruft in the .htaccess file.

The scripts are in a package called phpMyID.

The console work is in that package’s readme (basically hashing your ID, your PHP realm and your chosen password and sticking it in the configuration file - one of the two php scripts).

The .htaccess file work is described here. A note about the .htaccess stuff: If you’re running csh or tcsh, take the stuff out of single quotes and put them directly in the .htaccess file with a text editor or else the shell will misinterpret the ! and other punctuation and screw it up for you.

Apparently you can host multiple IDs if you want with various intelligent file clonings and tweakings, but the system’s really designed for individual IDs per subdomains/domains.

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift:

The post.

I admire what this guy’s got to say. Like me, he uses the privilege he’s given to get his message to folks who would normally reflexively dismiss folks with similar knowledge and creds who don’t have pink skin.

So far I’ve only been able to read the PDF transcript, but I will include links to YouTube videos.

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wise

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/timjwise

Website: http://timwise.org/

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc

On White Privilege (transcript)
http://www.mediaed.org/handouts/pdfs/WiseWhitePrivilege.pdf

Tim Wise: White Like Me - Parts 1-8 (audio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9h-0UO_Nc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ewdZRy78Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvCWATr26s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNDH5sxlmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFVEch4mOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3MNCrzcGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZSwZ1NvSyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8lRajmUXQ

Let me know what you think!