bowena's blog

Lately, I've been very interested in the role online/e-mail rumors play in elections.  I heard an "On the Media" segment last week about how hard it is for political campaigns to beat back the false assertions made in fwd email.  Read More »

There's been some chatter about the lack of protests at the Democratic Convention (though, as I write this Biden is going on and on about an "open convention").  While there may not be a tremendous number of people waving signs, there is a lot of street art in Denver right now focused on the DNC and Obama.  A lot, but not all, of this art seems like an off shoot of the Manifest Hope show.  Read More »

I've been pretty absent from this forum for the past few months.  This has nothing to do with my feelings for gnovis or its awesome new issue.  It has been because, well...

I am an Internet addict.  In the past year or so my Internet use has gone from a nice distraction in an office job to something that has stopped my own creativity.  Read More »

As I've mentioned before, I support Barack Obama. There are a lot of reasons for this, none of which (I am sure) you care about. However, even I am starting to get a little tired of the shovel-fulls of praise lavished upon him. Will.i.am, of the Black-eyed Peas, just released a second celebrity-filled Obama endorsement video, there have been a number of Fairey inspired knock-offs of Obama art, and even some Etsy sellers using his face.  Read More »

The Library of Congress recently joined the photo sharing website Flickr. So far, "The Commons" pilot program has added 3,100 photos available free of charge and have tagged them as without any "known copyright restrictions." The goal, according to the program's Flickr page, is to provide a "... a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by  Read More »