Month: October 2008
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2 Reasons to Blog today – Blog Action Day and Creative Commons Awareness Day
Today, October 15th, is a do-something day online. Blog Action Day, supported by everyone from the UN to Friendster, is generating awareness of what everyday people can do to fight poverty, worldwide. Creative Commons awareness is about letting people know they have a choice when they share their words, pictures, and images in public- they…
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Question I’d love to see asked at the Presidential Debate
“Senator McCain, Senator Obama, your campaigns are both running ads that call the other a liar. Are either of you ready, on this stage tonight, to outright call the other person a liar and explain it? And if not, are you ready to stop that ad and take a more civil road to the White…
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The Financial Crisis of 1873
From Scott Reynolds Nelson, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary, comes a thought piece on the similarities of the current financial crisis and the 1873 worldwide banking crisis. The Real Great Depression – ChronicleReview.com As in 1873, a complex financial pyramid rested on a pinhead. Banks are hoarding cash. Banks…
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Project 10 to the 100th – A Google idea
Check out the video about project 10 to the 100th (10 to the 100th is a Google in math for those following along). There are no words, but the pictures tell the story really well helping government become more open, transparent and effective through better use of published information.” Show Us a Better Way asks…