December 5, 2008 – 09:59 am
From NY Times’s Jobless Rate Rises to 6.7% as 533,000 Jobs Are Lost: “With the economy deteriorating rapidly, the nation’s employers shed 533,000 jobs in November, the 11th consecutive monthly decline, the government reported Friday morning, and the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent…[But] More than 420,000 men and women who had been working or [...]
December 4, 2008 – 12:59 pm
From Joan Walsh’s The buck stops where?: “I haven’t written about President Bush for quite a while. I prefer to look toward the future. But his delusional exit interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson made me pay attention again. When Gibson asked Bush what he was ‘unprepared for’ when he became president, Bush gave this rather [...]
December 4, 2008 – 09:42 am
From Bokardo’s The Tyranny of Context - Bokardo: “I think this all comes down to what I’m going to call The Tyranny of Context. When we’re in the context of our lives, using technology to augment our daily activities, we don’t think about it as technology, per se. We see it as a tool to [...]
December 3, 2008 – 09:08 am
From NY Times’ Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77: “Bob Dylan…said in a 1978 interview, ‘The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.’ He said he heard something ‘vital and personal,’ and added, ‘I learned all the songs on that record.’” [Editor' note: I'm gonna be honest. I [...]
December 2, 2008 – 05:35 pm
From NY Times’ .Tel Them Where to Find You: “A .tel domain name links to the contact information of businesses, organizations and individuals. Information can include telephone numbers; links to Web sites, including a Facebook or MySpace page; e-mail addresses; instant messaging names, and, if you wish, identities for virtual games such as Xbox Live [...]
December 1, 2008 – 06:10 pm
From YouTube’s Symphony Channel: “We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.” [Via NY Times]
December 1, 2008 – 10:38 am
From Alternet’s How to Find out the Hidden Secrets of the Bush Administration: “Treat Cheney’s offices like a crime scene, create a 9/12 Commission, and declassify the Bush papers — the public deserves to know. “
November 30, 2008 – 12:50 pm
From the Atlantic’s The Lightning Rod: “Since her arrival, in the summer of 2007, Rhee, just 38 years old, has become the most controversial figure in American public education and the standard-bearer for a new type of schools leader nationwide. She and her cohort often seek to bypass the traditional forces of education schools and [...]
November 30, 2008 – 12:26 pm
From Tim O’Reilly’s Put change.gov Under Revision Control!: “There’s a profound and simple tool that the Obama administration can use to improve government transparency. It’s something that’s enabled worldwide collaboration among software developers, and whose relevance for content development has been definitively demonstrated by wikipedia: Revision control. Not only does revision control allow a community [...]
November 30, 2008 – 11:41 am
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
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