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Blog Carnival: Jennifer Hosts

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 20, 2006 in Blogs. 3 Comments

For the past couple of months I’ve posted a “blog round up”—a weekly listing of my favorite recent Charlottesville blog entries. Now that I’ve got everybody used to the concept, this show is going on the road. That transforms this into what’s known as a “blog carnival,” a regularly-scheduled best-of listing that travels between member blogs. At first I’m going to reproduce the contents of the carnival here, but eventually I’ll just post a link. Jennifer boldly agreed to kick things off this week:

Waldo’s post on the Al Weed flyer leads to equally fascinating and thorough fact analysis via the comment section; reminding us all why the blogosphere rocks as a forum for discussion and analysis.

Politickchick column was linked on Salon.com. Politickchick also posts some hilarious responses to her Cav Daily columns. What a great idea for columnists to react to comments submitted in response to their columns.

I was reminded by Johnny Metro why I love cville, the ever changing, never boring views.

Outskirts despises most things about the village; complains yet again about the music from the downtown mall. The changes in sound should be coming in two weeks, so complain after the James Brown concert. City Mouse has a different perspective on the pavalion.

City Mouse’s ongoing saga with her neighbor living in the closet continues with an answer from the myopic property management company.

Anoop had to tell the world about the noodle bar on the Corner. I appreciate the weekly updates on where to eat since I never get to go anywhere (ok I did get to go to Mas, I recommend it highly to Anoop).

Brian Wheeler & Charlottesville Tomorrow provide a great service to the community with this particularly interesting post regarding Albemarle Place; shopping, traffic, gentrification, the future is now.

Eat Air got interviewed and made a delicious brunch- all with no meat, cheese, eggs um and other things. I enjoy the recipes because generally it makes the vegan life seem accessible. I am not a convert but I enjoy the idea of the alternative.

Fatuous Observations believes people don’t respect teachers because they talk over children’s presentations. I want to assure her that people are just rude.

There are a lot of new cvilleblogs from people who recently moved here. Matt Fotter is content and needs people to drink beer on the street with him (I have someone in mind); Rob adds some humor with this great post of a mangled subtitle. Rob & Matt might have a heck of a time together.

Finally StlWorkingmom posts some review haikus on recently watched DVD’s.

Thanks for reading, enjoy.

Next week, Duane Gran hosts.

Conversations with Bloggers: Eat Air

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 18, 2006 in Blogs. 1 Comment

Sean Tubbs, of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network, has begun a great new series on his site: conversations with Central Virginia bloggers. The first installment is a 20-minute long discussion with Chris and Darlene Bruce, who run Eat Air: A Vegan Food Log. Since November, the pair have posted daily blog entries about how to prepare meat-free, dairy-free dishes along with frank assessments of how they turned out.

20th Anniversary of Pat Collins’ Disappearance

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 17, 2006 in General News. Closed

Yesterday’s installment of WNRN‘s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call featured The Hook’s Fearless Consumer columnist, Barbara Nordin, discussing the 1986 disappearance of UVa student Patrick Collins. The entire show is available on-line thanks to Charlottesville Podcasting Network, as every week’s show is. The topic begins at 05:11 into the show. I have to admit that I was wholly unfamiliar with this case before listening, but it’s certainly an interesting story.

(Via The Hook)

Living Wage Protest Photos

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 16, 2006 in UVa. 1 Comment

There are some good photos of the now-finished living wage protest and sit-in on Flickr, notably Billy Hunt’s pictures (you know him for his work in The Hook) and P. Hugh’s pictures. This is the first area event that has produced some decent Flickr documentation, at least that I’ve noticed.

For those who don’t know, Flickr is a venue for photoblogging. You can take pictures, post them to Flickr (for free), and others can view them there. For those who choose to make their photos available under an appropriate license, blogs like this one can then publish your photos, which is a great collaboration. It’s wonderful tool to facilitate citizen journalism.

Living Wage Protesters Arrested

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 15, 2006 in UVa. 25 Comments

All seventeen students protesting the living wage by staging a Madison Hall sit in have been arrested, Andy Mullan reports in The Cavalier Daily. Their refusal to leave was a planned act of civil disobedience, since the building has to close during off hours. They had recently provided their counterproposal to President John Casteen, and were described as being in the midst of negotiations. Some of the students wouldn’t leave under their own power, and were hauled into waiting police wagons.

The entire thing made for quite a spectacle. Assuming that media were present, or at least will use the student photos, this is not going to look good on Monday’s news. On the other hand, the idea might be to get it in the news tomorrow, on Easter, when few are likely to be watching. Who knows where things will go from here?

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