Category: Technology
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Social Security Flashers
MoveOn‘s got a winner in their “Bush in 30 Years” contest — they were looking for a few good Flash animations to illustrate the social security “crisis” and proposed solutions. Check out the flashy goodness here.
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On the lighter side: Kevin Smith blogs.
Enough warblogging. Here’s something that will weigh a little less heavily on your soul(s) dear reader(s): Kevin Smith is blogging. For those who don’t know…ah well, you’ve probably seen one of his movies, or your brother or boyfriend or husband mumbles something about one from time to time, or you’re a full on Smithophile. Personally,…
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Uncensored: Flag-Draped Coffins via Flickr
The U.S. military thought that it would be easier to keep public opinion about the war in Iraq from degenerating into a Vietnam-type situation by censoring images of dead soldiers returning to the States. During Vietnam, the flag-draped coffins of the soldiers who were actually out there dying every day for whatever we fight wars…
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Bloglines, even simpler.
Preetam Rai has posted a newbie-friendly tutorial on Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday).
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Blog Theory
Doc Searls delivered a keynote this week at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, and has posted his slides. Doc says: “Blogging is about writing.” Somehow I feel vindicated, yet guilty. More writing coming…
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[JtB] Another angle
Daniel Sato, an SJSU photojournalism student, talks about what his expectations were for the event and what he would have liked to hear more about: “How can blogging be best used in education? In public relations? In empowering freelance writers/photographers? How can future readers avoid taking pr spin and propaganda as truth?” For more on…
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ExxonMobil Fears Reality-Based Community
I came home today to a fresh issue of Mother Jones, including a look at global warming from several angles. Here’s Bill McKibben in the introduction to the report on how the energy industry (read ExxonMobil) has worked to denigrate actual science for years: The strategy turned out to be simple: Cloud the issue as…
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Following the Hughtrain
Over at gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod is saying something about Technorati, but I’m not really paying attention as I’m too busy cracking up.
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[JtB] 4.0: Dan Gillmor
How will we know who is credible? Dan mentioned “new tools being developed” which will help people learn what to trust.
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[JtB] 3.0: David Pescovitz
I’m posting my revised notes from last night’s Joining The Blogosphere event at San Jose State University. This is the third of four panel members. My input is in italics. David Pescovitz ran down a brief history of BoingBoing, the single most read blog around. In the 1980s, the diffusion of the PC lead to…