Absurdity, Allegory and China

Over the last 24-hours I have been contacted several times by friends who are aware of my work in Qinghai province, asking if I have any more information than is available through the news orgs. Unfortunately, I do not. Though I know several people from the Yushu area, my involvement is in a Tibetan area [...]

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What’s the role of Web 2.0 tools in the political sphere, especially in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes?  Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky take on this and other issues regarding the real power (or lack of it) of Twitter, Facebook and other social networking programs that have been hailed as revolutionary democratizing tools in this [...]

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In April 1980, on the verge of turning thirty, I’d decided that I needed a new setting. In the latter part of 1978 I’d met a woman, the sister of a co-worker, who had come to Kentucky to spend the winter from her seasonal job in northern Wyoming where she worked for a large ranch [...]

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Went to Hong Kong. Took some photos. Fog, fruit and rain.

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