JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

From Ethan Zuckerman, David Weinberger and Rebecca MacKinnon, I learned about Blog Day 2005.

BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the goal in mind, [...]

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Nancy White has posted links to the Katrina Help Wiki and other blogs including Deadly Katrina

Susan Mernit pointed to New Orleans Met blogs, flickr tag: katrina and first hand accounts as well as Doc Searls and Jeff Jarvis’ question.

This piece by Doc Searls published earlier this morning is also powerful.

Robert Scoble has a good collection [...]

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Chip Gibbons noted The Coming Darkness. I love summer. But this year I’m looking forward to the gray time too.

Summer here in the Northwest is short and sweet. If I’m remembering correctly, we’ve enjoyed six weeks of sunny dry days, beginning in mid-July. These are the days for staining the deck and accomplishing projects. These [...]

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Many have asked me How was Foo? (including here). This post is my best attempt to answer the question…

I’ve included a number of details to help describe what it was like and to help others who may be planning similiar ideas…
The invitation I received to Foo Camp was a gift. As danah boyd described in [...]

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Although late, I am posting these links on my blog for my own records, and also in hopes that they will be helpful to others.

Susan Mernit and I lead the Blogging 101 session at Blogher. I thought we made a good partnership since we come from different perspectives in blogging, with different goals and [...]

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The other day I realized how much I missed my own garden when I had the opportunity to stroll through a friend’s backyard.
I also realized how fun it is to take pictures of flowers.
Before I knew it, I had taken out my camera to capture glimpses of beauty and once at home, I quickly downloaded [...]

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Note: Blogher was intense and so is this post. The more I read and thought, the more I knew it would be difficult to be concise. Many of the ideas are related to each other. I wish I could mind map it! So I’ve included many concepts and links in one post. Even this [...]

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I’ve gotten behind on posting photos to flickr and this blog. Last night I decided to catch up and uploaded my favorite pictures from the past few weeks into my flickr account. I had hoped to write stories explaining many of them but perhaps that will come later. And if a picture is worth a [...]

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Highlights from the Birds of a Feather Storytelling group Blogher July 30, 2005:

I came late and left early, due to the fact that the session I was helping to lead was immediately after this one.
However, here are a few quotes from the informal session when we split into groups and discussed various interests. I am [...]

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Highlights of the Welcome Session:

- Three questions to answer at the end: What have you learned? What would you do with this information? What would you recommend to others around the world who can’t be here?

- Blogher statistics are intriguing: for example, more than 50% were attending a conference on blogging for the first [...]

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