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THE CHILDREN OF THE SHOEMAKER HAVE SANDALS
There's an old saying, "the children of the shoemaker go barefoot", meaning that the shoemaker is so busy making shoes for other people that his kids are neglected. So it is with web design. I've been making some cool sites for people recently, see nigelparry.net for more of that, but I've been stewing in a bad place where it comes to nigelparry.com, which still sees 13,000 visitors a month. Most visitors head to the Diary, with the rest split between the archives of this front page news system, the Monkey Times blog, the After 9/11 archive, and the section with my debut album, This Side of Paradise, in it. It seems unbelievable that, from February 19th until April 1st, just under 9,000 tracks from the album have been downloaded — over 200 a day or the equivalent of 900 albums. Seeing that many visits come to such a discombobulated website whose visual look you began hating 10 minutes after it was last rush completed is just soul-destroying. After experimenting with some new looks, I realized that the reason the kids were still barefoot was precisely because I don't have enough time for this, so I grabbed the templates from nigelparry.net and switched out the header. I'll pass it off as branding if anyone asks. The new site isn't finished, but I'm past caring about things like that and there's already a ton of new content that hasn't been available on this site before, including press appearances and interviews, so here's the preview: 
I was going to wait until the site was more complete for launch but a book a friend in New York gave me opened my eyes today to all the life flowing by undocumented. It was by Studs Terkel, the legendary American cultural anthropologist/documentarian who spent his life documenting the people who populate the streets of America. Terkel was on John Stewart's Daily Show last night, and the two echoes collided with the first entry I wrote in the Monkey Times blog which I was rereading while reworking the site. Towards the end of the entry, I was reminiscing about the good old days of A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and how good it is to be able to look back at your life through a document like that, as well as share it on the Internet. When I did the math, over a million people had read A Personal Diary a few years ago, which helps you remember not to underestimate the Internet as a communications medium. I miss writing, and I'm in the perfect place for it. Harlem, where I live, is pretty funny, New York as a whole is a blast, so it's time to get back to that place of writing about what's around. The Monkey Times blog, in particular, is where that's going to take place.
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"I cry at night and in my heart, not for the many killed, not for the injustices perpetrated, and not only for Palestine and Israel, but for the world. I cry not at the immediate results of injustice, but at the loss of humanity in our world. I cry at night because we as an international community have ceased to perceive the rest of the inhabitants of the world as individuals like us, as people who cry and laugh, as people who fear and hope, as people who seek to live their lives in freedom, but rather as 'others', not like us. We have ceased to be human. " - Hanan Elmasu, Palestinian human rights activist, writing under curfew, 27 June 2002 -
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nigelparry.net
nigelparry.net offers commercial web, multimedia, and print design solutions, with a preference for creative, information-intensive sites. Our speciality is then powering the design with content management software that allows non-technical clients to maintain their own websites.
This Side of Paradise
Information about my debut CD, spanning a decade of songwriting, which offers live tracks from 1999 performances in St. Paul, MN. "A disc whose recommendation
is its deftly managed intensity," stated a New Internationalist magazine review. Ultimately, the goal is a studio album with other musicians.
A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Award-winning photodiary written while living and working in the Palestinian West Bank, 1994-1998. Positively reviewed by The Independent (UK), Ha'aretz (Israel), TIME magazine (US), and Le Monde (France).
The Electronic Intifada
An award-winning online news site covering with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. In April 2002, the website received well over 600,000 visits and its Live from Palestine diaries project was reviewed in The Washington Post. In July 2002, the Financial Times described EI's website as "something quite spectacular...a highly professional site." Definitely an excellent first stop for Israel/Palestine news.
Photography
A virtual exhibition of selected photographic images I took of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and during my time in the US from 1998-2004. I no longer take photographs. There is another Nigel Parry who photographs celebrities. That is not me.
The Middle East and the Internet
Some introductory material, for researchers, journalists, and others interested in the development of the Palestinian Internet.
After 9/11 archive
Some archived material posted at the time that received virtually no coverage in the American media in the months after 9/11.
The Cockburn Project
The Cockburn Project is the leading Internet resource on Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2001. I founded the site in 1998 and, with the help of literally thousands of Bruce Cockburn fans worldwide, built the site into an amazing resource. These days, although an editorial board now maintains the site, I remain the satisfied publisher of this online newspaper.
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