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Alan Mutter (above) reports that journalists didn’t kvetch at Googleplex. Personally I don’t believe it, but he was there and I wasn’t:

They said a conference about the future of journalism couldn’t take place without the usual qvetching [sic] about the golden, olden days of journalism, with publishers grieving shriveled margins and editors caviling about the bloggers challenging their previously unassailable wisdom.

But we did it. The two-day Media Technology Summit sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley adjourned today without sliding into the Bermuda Triangle of denial, anger and depression that ordinarily characterizes such shindigs.

Read more about the summit on Mutter’s blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur.

[Photo: MediaBistro.com]

Berkeley Tweets, Journalism, UC Berkeley Alan Mutter

Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

alleciav: I didn’t know a grocery store could offer me emotional (and literal) fulfillment. Then I met Berkeley Bowl West.

KellyGDunbar: More from Michael Pollan’s lecture in Berkeley: New rule, avoid any “food” you’ve seen advertised on TV.

jeffdenby: There’s a wierd lookin dude plastering “Arrest John Yoo” posters all over downtown Berkeley. Who’s John Yoo? Did I miss something?

Berkeley Tweets

As anyone who drives up and down Grizzly Peak regularly in a Prius knows, Berkeley’s hills are a boon for hybrid cars since energy from braking helps to recharge a car’s battery.

Berkeley already has one of the highest number of hybrid cars per person in the nation, and electric cars are next.

PG&E chairman Peter Darbee told the New York Times that plug-in electric cars are  likely to reach Berkeley and San Francisco in significant numbers in the next few years, and plans are under way to reinforce the distribution network to accommodate them.

[Photo: Tracey Taylor]

Environment, Green living, Transport, Transportation Electric cars

The City of Berkeley Police Department  is asking for the community’s help in identifying the suspects pictured above who are believed to be responsible for two daytime residential burglaries on the afternoon of September 22 on the 1500 and 1600 blocks of Sacramento Street.

Residents at one of the two locations had fixed security cameras inside their home and captured photos of the two suspects.

For more information click here.

Hat-tip: Infospigot

Crime Berkeley burglaries

Berkeley High School has been selected as one of five schools in California for a program to prepare students for green jobs, as announced by PG&E at a launch event yesterday.

The New Energy Academy is the result of a partnership between PG&E, the California Department of Education and CaliforniaALL, a nonprofit education group.

Read the full story in The Daily Californian.

Photo: tenasillahe.wordpress.com

Berkeley High School, Education, Environment Berkeley High School

To mark Banned Books Week, the Berkeley Public Library is inviting people to come tomorrow between 3 and 5 to read passages from their favorite banned or challenged books. The mass public reading will be in front of the Central Library on Kittredge Street.

The American Library Association promotes Banned Books Week each year to focus on the importance of freedom of access to information and ideas. Mike Pope posted a good perspective on the radicalism of librarians today (hat tip Nancy).

Any suggestions for readings?

Photo by Ingorrr from Flickr

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