The 3G was always slow, but with iOS4 is is unbearably slow. It is like a brick. Do not update your operating system you will regret the decision immediately!! I think Apple developed this operating system as a strategy to get 3G owner to get buy a new iphone. Don’t fall for it. Most of the new features of iOS 4 don’t work on the 3G anyway, so you get almost no benefit in exchange for the slower performance.
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Interesting Interview on WHYY
Author Charles Bowden calls Ciudad Juarez ‘Murder City’
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/ Hour 2
Rebroadcast: Ciudad Juarez is just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. What once was a border boom town after NAFTA spurred the building of factories is now best known for a horrific wave of violence that continues to escalate. The city’s murder rate soared from 207 in 2007, to 1,660 in 2008, to 2,660 in 2009, and is on an even higher pace this year. CHARLES BOWDEN has written a new book, Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields, that offers bloody testimony to an epidemic of drug-trade-fueled murders that has turned Juarez into one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
Another (short) Film About A Local Hero
A Short film about another local hero, Charlie Koiner, will be shown next month at Silver DocsFilm Festival. I was not involved in this production, but have filmed Charlie numerous times and had thought that a film needed to be done about him. The film will screen three times. Tuesday’s premiere is a free outside screening in The Ellsworth Plazza.
Run time: 10 min. | USA
In the heart-warming short CORNER PLOT, 89-year-old Charlie Koiner cares for a one-acre piece of farmland that rests just inside the beltway of urban Washington DC. With help from his daughter, Charlie continues to work the land and share the fruits of his labor at the local farmer’s market. In a rapidly changing modern world, this unique farmer remains dedicated to the life he has always known.
9:30 PM Tue, Jun 22
Silver Plaza – Outdoor
screens with MICROCOSMOS | Marie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany 1996
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9:00 PM Fri, Jun 25 AFI Silver Theater 3
screens with Shorts Program 5
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11:15 AM
AFI Silver Theater 2 Sat, Jun 26
screens with Shorts Program 5
Further details will be posted on the website I created for Charlie as they become available. We are hoping he will speak at one of the screenings.
http://koinerfarm.blogspot.com/
Free Music
Jamendo is the world’s #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. I have reviewed it before, but thought I’d mention it again. It offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it’s an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships. For listeners, it’s like expanding your music library to the galaxies.
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Scribd news
A very good document hosting site that I have reviewed before is Scribd. It is going to get even better. It is transitioning from Flash to HTML5.
HTML5 will run on iphones and ipads, unlike Flash. Plus it will be more expansive taking up the whole browser rather than sitting in a little window. Plus, it will download faster. In addition, the service is about to introduce compatibility with Google Docs. this will make Scribd much more usable and useful.
For more, see:
Scribd: HTML5 & The Future of Publishing
Collaborative Map
I made this cool interactive, collaborative map on Google today. It includes all of the art galleries and some (of the many) “hot spots” on H St.
See below or click here for the full-featured map: http://tiny.cc/Hstreet
Studio H Gallery and Workshop, 408a H street NE
Dissident Display, 416 H Street NE
City Gallery, 804 H Street NE upstairs
Gallery O/ H, 1354 H Street NE
Conner Contemporary Art, 1358 Florida Av NE
G Fine Art, 1350 Florida Av NE
Industry, 1350 Florida Av NE (upstairs)
Evolve Urban Arts Project, 1375 Maryland Av NE
Happy New Year!
Sometimes I share links to Time Magazine’s top ten list. This year I will just share one of David Pogue’s recommendations for best innovations in 2009. He is one of the people I follow on Twitter who seems to consistently have interesting and informative posts. And I’m not just saying that because he included five of my tweets in his new book, “The World According to Twitter.”
His weekly tech video are also good.
Here is what he says about readability:
“The single best tech idea of 2009, though, the real life-changer, has got to be Readability. It’s a free button for your Web browser’s toolbar (get it at lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability). When you click it, Readability eliminates everything from the Web page you’re reading except the text and photos. No ads, blinking, links, banners, promos or anything else. Times Square just goes away.”
“Readability makes the world online a calmer, cleaner, more beautiful place.”
Other folks I like to follow on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/scottsimpson (funny)
http://twitter.com/PCJournals (interesting links to Peace Corps blog posts)
http://twitter.com/mainjustice (what is really going on at the Justice Dept.)
http://twitter.com/collazoprojects (Editor of a travel blog)
Twitter instead of Google?
Well I know that there are a lot of people still very resistant to using Twitter. However, even if you have no intention of ever sending tweets, you need to know about and use Twitter. I have been using Twitter for about 2 years. Today, many companies and even government agencies and officials use Twitter as a primary means of direct communication to and from constituents. The U.S. Department of Labor, the EEOC, The State Department, and more recently the Justice Department have all gotten on Twitter.
Even if you choose not to subscribe to any feeds, you can still use Twitter to Search the internet for interesting articles and discussions.
I am a huge fan of Google’s search engine. Google’s advanced search template is very helpful. However, there are certain research tasks that will yield better results by doing a Twitter Search, particularly up to the minute information and news stories from other countries.
Next time you are doing a Google search, try the same search here and see what you think: http://search.twitter.com/advanced
If there is an item you want to monitor, you can convert your twitter search to an RSS feed and subscribe to it using your feed reader. While you can also do that with a Google Alert, the types of results you will get will be much different. If you do not use or know what an RSS reader is check out https://wlerik.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/must-have-apps/
Montgomery victory gardens
Seems like a new non-profit group has sprung up to support community gardens and sustainable, local, food systems:
http://montgomeryvictorygardens.org/
See also http://www.revivevictorygarden.org/
I am a big supporter of local farming. My 90 year old neighbor Charlie is a good example of how productive a small urban plot of land can be. I made him a Website/blog, check it out: http://koinerfarm.blogspot.com/
I am not much of a gardener myself, but Caitlin does grow some herbs on our balcony. When I was in Guatemala, I had a small garden. I also had some apple trees. All of my neighbors grew corn and black beans. Some grew wheat. Nearby in Almolonga and Zunil, they grew all sorts of vegetables, which could not be exported to the U.S. because of the high levels of pesticides they used.
Worthy Mouse Clicks 