Monthly Archives: June 2008

stroke of insight

June 21, 2008 – 11:33 pm

This video of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor speaking is absolutely amazing. [BTW all of the TED talks are great] I appreciate her honest emotion so much, particularly b/c it helps me understand my best friend Sarah’s recent stroke [chronicled here on NOLA.com] and once again feel completely optimistic that she will recover 100%!

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By Daisy Pignetti USF | Posted in Personal | Comments (1)

another pro-twitter post

June 8, 2008 – 11:31 am

Yes, I know I go on and on about Twitter, but even when it has its issues [can you say Fail Whale?], it’s still the place people keep coming back to [even after this week's mini-exodus to Plurk!] For reasons why people like me love the microblogging service, check out this video, which was created [...]

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publius project

June 7, 2008 – 6:36 pm

I’m proud to share the link to the essay I recently wrote in response to Dan Gillmor’s “Principles of New Media.” It has been published as part of the publius project, which is a Berkman Center blog-site featuring “essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net.” Having Gillmor as my advisor last summer when [...]

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