http://brianglanz.net/blog Brian Glanz Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:34:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Asha for Education's mission is to catalyze socioeconomic change in India through education of underprivileged children. "Asha" in Hindi means "hope." I first volunteered with Asha when I studied at Cornell in the mid 1990s and have stayed involved since. Their efforts are among the most sincere and most successful ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/10/07/asha-for-education/ Joey Mornin, @joemornin on Twitter and a research assistant at the Berkman Center, had tweeted "I have seen the future, and it is a Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking remix ..." (11:24 AM Oct 2nd from TweetDeck). That I had to see, and when I saw it I had to tweet: "This ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/10/02/coming-soon-to-the-pacific-science-center/ In May 2009 we first heard about Google Wave, a new, partly open source way of communicating. This graphic shows my message to Google, with which I applied to test Wave. I watched Arrington's interview with Google Wave founders and couldn't wait to try it. Google, of course had a cute ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/10/02/testing-google-wave/ Net Tuesday is a monthly event at the intersection of social change and technology. Events combine organizations in need, interesting speakers, an eclectic group of able and willing technologists, and a few good drinks. Find Net Tuesday in your city via its parent organization, Net Squared. Seattle Net Tuesday recently organized ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/08/24/seattle-net-tuesday-returns/ 六四是事實。还原真相：1989年6月4日的新聞，無辦法修改了吧：想要结束历史悲剧惟有真实、彻底地记住历史--真实的民主运动。 Twenty years ago on June 4, 1989, thousands of pro-democracy protesters -- most of them students -- were killed by the Chinese government where they gathered peacefully, in Tiananmen Square. http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/06/03/to-restore-the-truth/ I have been honored to work with Conservation on the management and improvement of their web site. They are a publication of the Society for Conservation Biology. I could not agree more with their Editorial Statement: Environmentalism has taken a global turn. What was once a movement that revolved around local activism ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/05/21/for-the-society-for-conservation-biology/ REALscience and I have launched a new version of their web site for which I did design and development. REALscience is a science media company based in Seattle. We are launching the new site today, March 30th 2009 and will continue rolling out improvements in the following weeks. There are so ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/03/30/realscience-20/ I began CompassionRise as a daily blog about compassion. I wrote for one to two hours and published each day for the first 30 days of 2009. I could summarize it as "30 essays in 30 days totaling 25,000 words, on scientific compassion and civil society." I also like ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/02/01/compassionrise/ Mango Power Girl and I are proud to present her new portfolio at Mango Power Girl Photography. There are new photos and diptychs from MPG and for my part, upgrades to the design and features of the site. The short answer on its technical details: I started with WordPress and phT ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2009/01/31/mango-power-girl-photography/ I made this montage from my photos of the works of Seattle's Ken Judd. The video was also a gift for his 50th birthday. We had lost KJ to San Diego in 08, but he's back in Seattle in 09. I may remaster the video -- publish a higher resolution, remove ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2008/12/29/myspace-video-test/