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| Monday, September 18, 2006 |
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Day Fire from the Sky 
| | Got a bunch of good shots of the Day Fire from a window seat en route from Santa Barbara to Denver (where I am now, for a few minutes). |
| | Start here and go forwards and backwards in time, through the photoset. |
| | If any news organizations want to use this bit of high altitude citizen journalism, feel free. I've got another plane to catch. |
Better late than later
| | At last, SBA — our airport here in Santa Barbara — has wi-fi access to the Net. Only 6.7 years late arriving in the 21st Century. But still, much appreciated. |
Zeroing In
| | The title is The Giant Zero. The metaphor is a play on the meaning of both World of Ends (which I co-wrote with fellow Berkman fellow David Weinberger) and The Stupid Network, by Berkman alumnus David Isenberg. (David is also my given name, by the way. Coincidence?) The origin of the metaphor, however, is Craig Burton, who was the first to observe that an end-to-end architecture in which every point is essentially zero distance from every other point (and as stupid as possible in the middle as well), would geometrically resemble a 3-D zero. |
| | So I'll talk about that and a bunch of other stuff that ties into it. |
| | Go to the first link above for links to streams and 'casts. (The room itself is small and probably already full.) |
| | And I'll see ya there. Right now I have a plane to catch. |
Day Fire, Week 3, cont'd
| | It's 3:48am and the stars are out. The river of smoke and ash in the sky has gone elsewhere. Maybe I'll see more when I take a plane to Denver at 6am this morning. No time to look for much more than I just gathered about the Day Fire, which is now sixteen days old. |
| | The latest news release (2006-09-18 00:30:00 ET, it says) explains the expanded closure of the Los Padres National Forest, which is comprised of extremely wild and arid country. If a Colorado ran through it, the place would be a national park and a tourist cliché. Instead it's filled with canyons, escarpments, and layercake walls of rock to rival the best of the West — and no easy way for ordinary sightseers to get in and around. Or for firefighters to do the same. |
| | The less rocky parts are wooded, in some areas densely. This, I am sure, is mostly what's burning up. The latest map of the emergency closure area covers a jagged oval region bounded roughly by I-5 (The Grapevine) on the east to Santa Barbara's Gibraltar Reservoir on the west, and from the Central Valley in the north to just outside the populated regions of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Ojai, Fillmore and Santa Paula to the south. In other words, most of what's in the middle of this map here. |
| | Advice for InciWeb, which gathers and publishes incident information from many agencies: join the Live Web. What you've got there is Static Web stuff that requires a kind of reconstruction with every new addition to the site. |
| | No, I'll put it differently. We need RSS and a River of news coming out of InciWeb. And both would be easy to do. |
| | [Explanations for the strike-outs here.] |
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