Taking the day to honor our heroes.  Will be back on Tuesday.  Topic:  The art of the virtual tour.

A BLOGGER’S DOUBTS  A few friends, both virtual and real, have begun to write blogs recently. I’d like to imagine I inspired them, but I know the passion to communicate is part of the human DNA. The number of bloggers in the world is enough to make me shudder. I joined one site

Background Many of us know that the Internet began as an American project after WWII when our government needed a system that would allow message authentication between various parts of the military. Vint Cerf and his team together with the help of Robert Kahn, a computer scientist, p

Yesterday I talked about the power of one to effect change in the world. It may have sounded a little pie-in-the-sky but there is more method than madness in my proposal. Today, I’m going to refer to the importance of one to affect upcoming changes in the Internet. A discussion

So much of what we hear on the news or read in the paper is about a world in chaos. There’s a reason for this, of course. It’s called “marketing.” Most living creatures are designed to respond to fear because survival may depend upon it.  But we humans make too great a habit

Can the world be turned with a smile?

I admit, I half admire what I am about to hold up for sport. The ability to play with language, to stretch it like taffy into a gossamer thread, is a game worthy of the Olympics for there is always the real danger the thread will break and like London Bridge come falling down. James

A friend recently sent me a short story he’d written which is about to appear in the literary magazine, “Drash.” The publicationfocuses on Jewish and/or Pacific Northwest themed material. His tale is about a boy who uses ventriloquism to convince his Jewish parents that the li

A friend sent me an article from the local newspaper, which speculated that anger was the proper fuel for art. To support his theory, the writer, David Stabler gave three examples of artists famous for their flashes of visionary fire though it alienated those around them: Adrienne Ric

I might be a fool, but I’ve always sided with John Locke rather than Thomas Hobbes on the question of whether man is basically good or bad. I believe human nature is good because we need each other to survive and that necessitates cooperation and compromise. Whether that understandi