What #OccupyWallStreet is about
#OccupyWallStreet is just the sort of movement I’ve been expecting. It’s a true grassroots movement catalyzed and sustained by social […]
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Economy, Politics
Occupy ABC’s This Week
Update: link to a transcript of La Greca on This Week at DailyKos DailyKos blogger Jesse LaGreca was eloquent and
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#Occupy clustering and coping
Micah Sifry writes that “Rapid growth is going to stress the #OWS [Occupy Wall Street] movement,” and he talks about
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Fires, storms, and the crisis of authority
Of course we’ve been tracking the fires in the Austin area, especially the massive complex fire in Bastrop, and I’ve
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More on bandwidth: light and darkness
My friend Robert Steele emailed me in response to my last post, saying there’s more to consider, and I agree.
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Technology: tipping the balance
Roger Cohen in the New York Times: Something immense is happening as the world transitions to a hyperconnected state where,
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Collaboration, cooperation, democracy
Everybody’s head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they’ve heard over and over again. Against this, we
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Busted for dancing at Jefferson Memorial
This is a hell of a thing to see on Memorial Day. This would be a real nightmare for some
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Ratko Mladic’s arrest
Jasmina Tesanovic posts about the arrest of Ratko Mladic here. As a further financial twist, the state still owes the
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bin Laden and the horserace
Osama bin Laden’s death is a complex event with many implications and potential repercussions, yet it’s been trivialized by media
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Filter bubbles
This talk by Eli Pariser reminds me of discussions with David Weinberger about online echo chambers. I recall that this
Organization, Politics, Technology
Technology, politics, and balance
When Mitch Ratcliffe and I published Extreme Democracy in 2005, the question came up whether the discussion of politics and
Politics, Technology
Open Source Politics and Religion
I just sent the following to an email list I’m on, and thought it would be worth sharing here: I’ve