Category: Future of News
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The Knight Foundation announced the winners of 2010 News Challenge this week, and two of the winners list Chicago as their home turf. The Knight Challenge awards $2.74 million to 12…
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Video: Borris Lukic on the Road As the sun begins to set on a warm Sunday afternoon in April, Boris Lukic turns on his 53-foot truck and begins the paperwork to hit the road. Once the…
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Scripting News: New feature: Blog post sub-text! Dave Winer is looking to move blogging and online writing to the next level. He calls it “sub-text” and instead of adding hyperlinks within the run of sentences, you can add a “+” by any text and that will expand/hide additional information. I think this looks like a very effective way to end up producing thoughtful writing online. No more clicking away from a page, and you can expand/hide just the information that you need. It allows for a quick skim and then you can go back and grab the details of interest. I wish I was a better programmer so I could help out at this stage, but that’s not happening for me now.
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Arth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. Read more: Chicken in the city – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53190/#ixzz0qw4GTrUFArth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. Arth’s family is part of a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. a growing trend of urbanites who keep chickens as pets in cities across the US, including Madison, Seattle, New York, and Austin, TX, according to Ron Kean, poultry extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Harrison-Noonan is a carpenter, and has been selling plans for home-made chicken coops for the past year, both nationally and internationally. He says he is now selling four times as many plans for coops than when he began a year ago. Madison itself has about 40 families with backyard chickens, according to Madison’s city treasurer’s office. This was illegal until 2004, when Madison began allowing ownership of small flocks in city-dwellers’ backyards. Prior to that point, says Harrison-Noonan, there was the “chicken underground” ? scattered citizenry who secretly kept their birds. Read more: Chicken in the city – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53190/#ixzz0qw4WGqOp
Barbara K Iverson 
