Izzy Stone and Social Media
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Culture, Tech & Science | 1 Comment
One of my journalism heroes was I. F. Stone. “Izzy” was perhaps 1953′s premiere blogger, publishing his own muckraking newspaper from then until the early 70s, campaigning against McCarthyism and later exposing the fallacy of Lyndon Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the US excuse for plunging into the Vietnam War. Here is an excerpt from [...]
Read More..>>Floating Through Kerala
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Culture, India, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos. But then I hadn’t been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India’s southwest. Watch HD Video on connectedtraveler.com
Giving Wings to Grandma: An Interview With Joe Sutter, The Father of the Boeing 747
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Joseph Sutter- Photo© 2005 Russell Johnson Airlines come and go. But one airplane, put in service in 1970 by Pan Am and designed and built by Boeing is still flying, still being manufactured and, like Swiss Cheese or a Brooks Brothers suit, still looks the same. It is that ubiquitous, bulbous Cyrano of the skies, [...]
