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Entries from November 2007

More Conferences, More Online Material, More Discussion for Thought

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments

HT: to Ethan Zuckerman for writing about TED and two other conferences he attends, Pop!Tech and LIFT which are also posting their presentations online for the world to watch. I never knew about these two conferences before but am now sharing ideas from both of them (and TED) with friends, family and colleagues. […]

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Tags: New Media · Video · Online Community · Social Networking · news and entertainment · Politics and News

TED Talks Online: Enlightening Thoughts

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

If you want to tap into some serious thought power check out TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.
What is TED?

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together […]

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Tags: Online Community · New Media · Video · TED · Global Warming · Social Networking · Tech · US · International · Web 2.0 · Politics and News

Friedman on Obama–The Positive Points of a New Candidate

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I have not donated money or selected a candidate to back, but I have been examining the field and believe I know what we need and what I deem as high qualifiers in the next U.S. presidential election and what ranks very high in my opinion is a president that can return hope to the […]

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Tags: Politics and News

Corruption Abounds in Bush Administration Appointees Old and New

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments

There is a nice editorial in today’s WaPo by, Eugene Robinson: Are They Serious?, I say nice because of his to the point description of recent corruption/obstruction of justice and just plain wrong behavior by 3 Bush Administration appointees: Karl Rove–oops that was a delete key, Alberto Gonzales–people were fired that I said to be […]

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Tags: US · Politics and News

Immigration Policy Debate in The U.S.–Don’t Forget the People

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Looking the Other Way on Immigrants in today’s WaPo highlights how some local communities are creating local Bills of Rights for immigrants.
In the aftermath of a series of raids in 2004, the town council in this historic borough of 5,300 — transformed in recent years by an influx of at least 1,300 Latin Americans — […]

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Tags: International · US · Politics and News

Think Green: A New Wiki on Environmental Policy and Ideas

April 9th, 2007 · No Comments

A few weekends ago I started Think Green, a wiki, to collect and share information on environmental issues and policies such as tax incentives for businesses and individuals for going green. I am also hoping you will help me create a collection of all green blogger links and news. I need your help […]

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Tags: Carbon Emissions · Non-profit tech · Online Community · New Media · Global Warming · Climate Change · DC · environment · Web 2.0 · Social Networking · Tech

NTC2007: Closing Thoughts on the Conference

April 8th, 2007 · No Comments

During the last day of the conference I attended a session that covered microformats for Web coding behavior. This seems like an interesting use of code and definitely worth keeping an eye on, if you want to play with it now the recommendation was made to try it on the Contact page of your […]

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Tags: Non-profit tech · 07NTC · Social Networking · Web 2.0 · US · International · Tech