iceplant radio : Wed, Jun 30, 2004

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SheSource: Promoting Women in News

2004.06.30 . .

SheSource: Promoting Women in News: "The Women’s Funding Network, Fenton Communications and The White House Project are launching a comprehensive initiative designed to foster more representative public discourse by increasing the number of women in the news media."

(Via del.icio.us/dwatts.)

Phillipine mangroves are 1/4 of their baseline

2004.06.30 . .

Via Shifting Baselines Blog: Phillipine mangroves: 1/4 of their baseline: "“The country’s mangrove forests are now down to only about 112,000 hectares, from a high of about 450,000 hectares in the early 1900s.”

Scientists Call For Better Protection For Coral Reefs

2004.06.30 . .

"The International Society for Reef Studies has launched an ambitious program to communicate the results of scientific research in order to improve policies and practices impacting on coral reef conservation around the world."

A Recap of Building of Basecamp

2004.06.30 . .

One of my favorite new tools in my web site project management bag of tricks is Basecamp. My clients and anyone who works with me are given an account on my project site first thing. It's a great tool for teams who need to check in with each other as a project progresses.

There was a Building of Basecamp workshop recently. I didn't make it but I'm glad that Deane wrote a review.

I dig the Flickr Uploader for OS X

2004.06.30 . .

Flickr is pretty cool. It's so easy to post a picture to a blog. Today I set my preferences to add a Creative Commons sharealike license to all my photos. The new beta uploader works great too. It enables drag and drop uploading from iPhoto and the Finder, and setting tags and privacy in a batch.

Art attack update

2004.06.30 . .

If I had a weblog about genetics, I'd surely post something about this item.

Art attack update: "University of Buffalo professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble, was charged yesterday with mail and wire fraud. As you may recall, Kurtz has been under investigation after he awoke to find his wife dead and called the police who discovered some biological materials related to Kurtz's latest art project. (See this post for background.) Robert Ferrell, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health, was also charged for helping Kurtz obtain $256 worth of harmless bacteria. The absurdity continues. Link"

(Via Boing Boing.)