Orcmid's Lair: Democracy 2007: The First American Civil War

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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items More Live Writer Experiences Democracy 2007: U.S.A Independence Day Malcolm Gladwell: Story Teller Trusting Trust: Connections Video Notes: Orcmid's Flying Kyte Integration of Composite Applications Interoperability: All About Collaboration? Facebook: The Frenzy Continues Facebook Applications: Photos Facebook in my Face	2007-07-05 Democracy 2007: The First American Civil War I am struck by how chaotic, turbulent, and unpredictable was the conduct of the Revolutionary War. It also impacted civilians who were compelled to demonstrate allegiance to one cause or the other and who could find themselves in dire circumstances depending on the ebb and flow of the forces and of control of the region in which they found themselves. These and other features are illuminated in President Jimmy Carter's 2003 novel, The Hornet's Nest. Technorati Tags: orcmid, Jimmy Carter, The Hornet's Nest, Revolutionary War, democracy, insurgence, civil war, Colonial America Video: orcmid.tv Democracy 2007: The First American Civil War I recommend the book for its compassionate view of the impact of the insurgencies, civil war, and revolutionary efforts on ordinary colonists as well as the irregular fighters and trained forces of the different sides. The Revolutionary War took almost ten years, with rebellions, insurgencies, border disputes, and other problems continuing for the next 50 years. The seeds of the 19th century American Civil War were already sown. Here are additional links in my RSS feeds reflecting popular culture and attitudes about Independence Day: Photography Blog: Fireworks Photos (via Scobleizer) Tips on how to photograph fireworks Photografr.com: Proud to be an American (via Scobleizer) promoting a photographer's work Caveat Lector: Pride Heartbreaking Scobleizer: Happy Fourth of July! with the usual snarky comments back and forth Derek Powazek: Patriots (via Scobleizer) Kent Newsome: Declaration of Blogging Independence (via Hugh MacLeod via Scobleizer) A parody that is either funny, tasteless, or all/none of the above MSNBC: July 4th Special - Could You Pass the U.S. Citizenship Test? (via Kevin Schofield) I squeaked by with 85%. If I'd been more thoughtful and careful, I could have come up with two more correct. Lisa Dusseault: Happy Independence Day, but then I'm working today ... Miguel de Icaza: The Pentagon Papers - How They Were Released. What you might not know about former Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska and unusual service to the ideals of our nation Christopher Carfi: Happy 4th, Everyone! Geeksugar: Love It Or Leave It? American Flag iPod Case (via Scobleizer) Charles Petzold: Summer Reading, "The Best and the Brightest" "both for people who lived through that era and for those who didn't but are brave enough to journey back to those scary years" of the Vietnam War Randall Munroe: Wikipedian Protester (via Scobleizer) As part of my continuing experimentation on video quality and technique, the current video was captured off-line and then edited in Windows Movie Maker. The individual clips were cleaned up and shortened until the estimated file size was under 100MB without any loss of resolution or capture quality. This was enough to ensure upload to SoapBox. The titles and credits, including the opening newspaper visual, were all introduced using Movie Maker features. Following successful upload to Soapbox, a new WMV resampled to an estimated 50MB was then derived and uploaded to kyte.tv. (That accounts for the dramatic differences in quality along with the additional losses introduced at kyte.tv for that version.) posted by orcmid at 7/05/2007 09:21:00 PM *Comments:* Post a Comment