Author Archives: Gary Burge

Neda: “The innocent look in her eyes”

By Gary Burge | Published: June 25, 2009
A moving — and chilling BBC interview with Arash Hejazi, the doctor who tried to save Neda Soltan’s life. He is the younger man shown kneeling at her side in the videos of her death on the streets of Tehran. Dr. Hajazi, who said he did not know Neda and was walking from his nearby office [...]
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Google Voice Going Public

By Gary Burge | Published: June 25, 2009
The Google Voice team announced a few minutes ago that they have begun sending invitations to people wanting to signup for the phone dispatching and voice mail service. “Invites for Google Voice are going out, and our list is huge, so it will take a while to get though them all. Be patient. Thanks!”— @googlevoice on [...]
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Obama on the “Logic” of Public Health Insurance

By Gary Burge | Published: June 23, 2009
QUESTION: Won’t that drive private insurers out of business? THE PRESIDENT: Why would it drive private insurers out of business? If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government — which they say can’t run [...]
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Iran Protest Poster

By Gary Burge | Published: June 15, 2009
Using obamacon.met, I created this Iran Protest Poster. The original photograph of the man making the victory sign is by Farhad Rajabili.
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The Whole World is Watching You

By Gary Burge | Published: June 13, 2009
I’ve seen this before…in 1968 in Chicago, during the Democratic Convention when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley ordered Chicago police to break up anti-war demonstrations. Police beat hundreds of protestors. There is no way to embed BBC videos, but here is the link: protest video. A culture that beats its children is doomed to failure.
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Typekit Brings the Web a Step Closer to Real Publishing

By Gary Burge | Published: May 29, 2009
A Small Batch, Inc. has announced a new web service that resolves copyright restrictions on downloadable fonts and will deliver font packages directly to your web page the same way YouTube hosts videos and provides them to your web page on demand. Typekit, the name of the new product, will solve a frustrating limitation inherent in [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am a graying web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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