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From PBS on a trend in public transit:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-cities-turn-to-free-public-busing-to-counteract-inequity

From an activist group in Ottawa:

https://www.ottawatransitriders.ca/wfh_could_be_a_golden_opportunity_for_better_transit

From the Transport Politic blog:

https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2023/01/12/openings-and-construction-starts-planned-for-2023/

I'd like to think that all of these things are good news telling of helpful things in progress.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Day 6 on CBC Radio

I'm checking job boards this morning, along with doing my daily blogging. Tonight, I think I'm going to try to see The Good Liar. Weather permitting.

More later.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

I asked this question earlier, partly as a prelude to this new Image of the Moment that just went live on Spacing Ottawa this morning.

Current Music: CBC Radio One: The Current

ms_danson recently posed me a question: which weblogs do I keep a close eye on? (One of several questions she posed to her wider audience, really.)

I started answering with some specific examples from space exploration and urban infrastructure/architecture/history circles, and stopped there. Temporarily - I thought - because it was going to take some mental digging and I was in a bit of a hurry to get from one thing to another earlier tonight.

I could dodge the question by pointing to my profile, but it's an incomplete list. Also, people migrate to and fro across the Web with their blogging. And what's still there and accurately linked would take a fair bit of time in itself to work through.

So...start with space exploration? Specifically, exoplanet-hunting. These have been particularly educational and entertaining:

http://centauri-dreams.org/
http://oklo.org/

These are a couple of newer blogs - to me anyway:

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/blog/
http://www.interstellarindex.com/blog/

Doubtless, there's more that I'm forgetting right now. Looking for recommendations, also!

Current Mood: contemplative

james_nicoll gave a heads-up about LJ's announced plans via FastCompany.

ontd_political has a bit of the reactions in progress.

How about the rest of you here?

Current Mood: anxious

So I posted this self-portrait on Blogspot about two years ago, and it seems as if two or three times a month on average someone tries to sneak a spam comment past me onto that posting's web page.

As an exercise in photographic experimentation, it really wasn't worth all that much. As an exercise in self-promotion, that entry on that particular blog was probably worth even less.

Still, the spammers are a (minor) annoyance, one I'm not sure what to do about. The temptation exists to just delete the entry. But that might be a short-lived nuisance avoidance. Same goes if I delete the blog in its entirety.

More on other stuff later either today or today...

Current Mood: irritated

Noticed this link today:

http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/media-organizations-build-blogger-intimidation-consortium/

Hoping the various news services don't come after me for making use of their RSS feeds here. I can't afford to pay, and I can't afford to fight.

On the other hand, David Dayen at the Fire Dog Lake news desk does make an interesting counter-suggestion:
"I’m wondering if any venture capitalists are interested in creating BlogRight, a monitoring service that scans the wire services and major papers for stories that they clearly ripped off from blogs without attribution or compensation, particularly those stories where the origins are described as “a blog first reported the news.” Considering the frequency with which this happens, and the possibility for major embarrassment among the media gatekeepers if that information were recognized widely, I would consider the BlogRight business model to be quite lucrative."

I do generate the occasional bit of original content here myself on occasion, in amidst all the fair use/fair dealing* linkages. While I haven't gotten much attention from professional news services here, there's no guarantee that will always be the case.

* - It depends on which side of the US-Canada border you're on as to which name and set of attached legal doctrine rules are in effect, I'm told. US = "fair use"; Canada = "Fair dealing". There is a difference in the details of the two doctrines.

And the big day itself is here for us.

Meantime...stumbled across the blog of one of my three most-favourite Blackhawk writers, Martin Pasko, the other day. (The other two being Messrs. Ostrander and Evanier.) Good to see he's still writing professionally, particularly his having worked with Bob Greenberger on the new Essential Superman Encyclopedia. Us continuity/trivia nutters cannot thrive properly without such toys of reference!

Good to see so many happy stories coming out of NYCC from so many of you, reading my blog or not. Gives me hope for a sane, comics-heavy future, I tell you.

Apparently, there are wind turbine blades being trafficked in North Dakota. Intriguing, this. I want to know the story behind that.

Speaking of other happy news: Robert J. Elisberg says something about his vision of the USA worth keeping in mind. Sounds not unlike a certain set of Canadian ideals, come to think it over.

More as it comes to mind...

Current Mood: busy

Feel free to discuss any or all of these as your interests guide you...

1. On movies: I went to see Gunless on Monday, The Trotsky on Friday...and I had fun watching both of them. Seems like it was a good week for me to see CanCon movies overall.

Haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet, although I fully expect to enjoy it as I did the first film.

2. InsideTheCBC.com asks a simple question about bias issues, and look at all the dog-piling going on in response. Amazing, isn't it?

I'm reminded of a recent installment of Age of Persuasion, "Where the Power Resides", wherein the power of the audience was discussed at some length. In the course of this episode, a clip from a Rod Serling interview was re-aired wherein Serling spoke of his POV on that episode of Lassie wherein she gave birth to puppies. Whereupon the producers and network responsible were flooded with what apparently turned out to be a handful of people cranking out letters of complaint by the thousands levelling accusations of producing and airing obscene material. Nonetheless, despite the source, the letters had their intended impact. Sad, and precedent-enforcing impact.

3. Watched "Flesh and Stone" on Doctor Who tonight. Fun, and more than a little chilling at all the points where it was intended. Including the final act, I daresay.

4. Noticed in Flash # 2 this week that the noble habit of fictional municipalities having their own Departments of Motor Vehicles in the DC Universe is apparently continuing...and with DNA profiles included on their smart-strips as well. We can probably blame the Durlan participation in the Alliance Invasion of 1988 for that last item, but the former - the bit about municipal DMVs? - that bothers me more than a little. Seeing as we've known for some years that - for Barry Allen's hometown's example - Central City's in Missouri, what's the point of devolving DMV duties onto Central City?

Any theories?

Current Mood: busy

I did some blogging elsewhere today on the subject:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/2009/09/transit-ages-city-and-future-happy.html

Hoping I didn't mess the work up there.

Something I spotted over at publicbroadcasting.ca today. If you know of any Canadian blogs worthy of any such honours, you might want to take a look.

More from my stuff later...

Current Mood: busy

While I'm downtown watching the digging machines wreak their havoc upon Bank Street today, a couple of notes:

I'm setting up a "fallback" blog site -- the link is in the "Links" sidebar on this blog's main page -- that might end up doubling as an art gallery in its own right. Sample artwork from Local Hero, and other projects to come down the line. Chalk it up to a miser's attitude and technical limits on my part.
Speaking of LH, I'm now ⅔ done the art for # 1. Yay, me!
No item three right now.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: International musak at the coffee shop