I Speak of Dreams

Detailed, Thorough, Citizen Journalist Coverage of Accused Shooter Amy Bishop's Academic Non-Performance

I wrote about those killed and injured at the University of Alabama Huntsville shooting. The blog Shepherds and Black Sheep have been digging into accused shooter Amy Bishop's academic, well,non-performance.

• February 14, 2010 Student Feedback on Accused Murderer Amy Bishop, PhD
• February 15, 2010 Is Accused Murderer Dr. Amy Bishop An Academic Fraud, Delusional, or Both?
• Februrary 15, 2010 Could Accused Murderer Amy Bishop Have Made a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
• February 20, 2010 UPDATE: Mainstream Media Finally Reporting Evidence Dr. Bishop Tried To Cheat Her Way to Tenure

Whizz! Bang! Science!

I started out at the always-interesting Neurotopia, who directed me to Starts with a Bang  (who has the best personal photo ever).  Ethan is a theoretical astrophysicist who just loves science. 

Two fave posts:

• Putting the Yellow in your Urine  (the astrophysicist became interested in physiology by being asked the question of whether a human has more cells or a galaxy has more stars? )
• Do Tinfoil Hats Work?.

Also see the Revenge of Isis

In An Emergency, Will Twitter (and Other 2.0 Tools) Save Us?

updated with message from Jesse:

For the past few years I have been trying to find ways that technology can be used to "Serve those that Serve Others".

Last week I spoke about some of the lessons learned from my deployment during Operation Hurricane Katrina at a technology conference called the Web2.0 Summit.  Video is now available, and I thought you might be interested in watching it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qogx6edklng

Please send me your thoughts, feedback, and ideas... and help me spread the word.

Here's Jesse's email: [email protected]

Jesse Robbins  refined his web chops at Amazon.com, eventually earning the  title of “Master of Disaster”.  He was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. 

Currently, he's the CEO of a start-up in stealth mode, and is the co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O’Reilly Radar.

Robbins is also volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. 

In this High Order Bit talk from Web Summit 2.0 2008, Robbins  uses examples from his Katrina experiences and other high-profile events to talk about the different learning curves for emergency services managers and Web 2.0 experts, to address the question: When and where are Web 2.0 useful in disaster response?  What is necessary for disaster services professionals and Web 2.0 professionals to learn from each other?

(I'm not fully confident the embed code will work, so here's the direct link: http://web20summit.blip.tv/file/1446474/)

disclosure: Jesse Robbins is my nephew, and I'm darned proud of him.

Is Officer Nohejl this year's Julie Amaro?

The very shortest version: Officer Nohejl is a school resource officer in Pasco County.  He set up a MySpace account--most of his MS "friends" are students in the Pasco County School District.  One of his 170+ friends had a link to a porn site.

Now Officer Nohejl is now under investigation by the Florida attorney general’s cyber crimes unit and the New Port Richey Police Department.

What?  An individual is responsible for a third-party link?  That's crazy.

Fortunately for Officer Nohejl, Karoli is on the case.  Below the fold -- other bloggers.

Way Down in Mayberry

From a post at Denise's, I became acquainted with Way Down in Mayberry.  She has five quite diverse children and an amusing view of life.  Recommended.

Birthday Greetings

Practical Magic

DT has conjurations for the use of emergency services personnel.  Via Maddog.

Writes pretty good, too.

Ethics of Blogging

A group of undergraduate students is conducting an online survey of bloggers about blogging and ethics (i.e., the ethics of blogging -- not blogging about ethics).  The survey is here.

(direct steal from E.G.)  which I ran across from perusing the recently updated list on the Typepad Entry page.  A nano vacation.  Is a direct steal ethical under the circumstances?)

Mandarin Design

I am tired of my blog design but I don't really know what I want. I also want to use more graphics but...well, I am hoping that the good people at Mandarin Design will be able to lift me out of the doldrums.

I Hate Blogger: I Like Shrinkette

There's a really interesting new medical blog and I'd like to leave a comment. But I can't, because I refuse to get a Blogger account.

Am I the only one that finds Blogger's coercive "just join! It's free!" marketing technique a royal pain in the heiney?

I refuse to join. I refuse to buy or wear garments that advertise the brand.