As I've mentioned before, I'm very interested in the internet and how it relates to community produced/distributed art and information. Thus it has been a great pleasure to watch my brilliant little brother Ben take interest in the same things. To make things better, he's doing his masters in Criminology and is generally more educated and possibly straight-up smarter than me. He often blogs about issues related to the internet, community media, and law.

He recently posted about the Save the Internet Campaign, which is worth reading about if you're at all interested in how the internet is developing. Tune in next week for more poi :)

On Sunday night I went to "En," a poi event organized by Yuta, Nao, and other members of the Tokyo spinning community.

When I first heard about the "poi event," I didn't know what to think. A fire festival, sure. A pagan dance party in the desert, of course! But an indoor, no-fire-allowed, cover-charge-to-get-in, "poi event?"...

How does 100 signs of stupidity = a sign of intelligence? The answer is Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his photo display, "The Earth from Above: An Arial Portrait of our Planet Towards a Sustainable Development." It is the most impressive photo exhibit I have ever seen. It was on display along the waterfront in downtown Wellington the whole time I was there...