Category — General

Blog Bib:
A comprehensive resource about the blogging phenomenon has been put together by Susan Herzog a librarian at Eastern Connecticut State University. Blog Bib includes links to studies, research, articles and interviews. Information about blogging tools and the technology and how the technology is being used by librarians….

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could be useful

Animal Planet :: Puppy Bowl :: puppies, dogs, pet adoption

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i think that i may have missed a great cultural event.

Iain Banks, Neal Stephenson, Michael Jordan:
It’s a great thing to recommend an author that a friend gets excited about. Two years ago, I’d never heard of Iain Banks, who’s now one of my two favorite (living) science-fiction authors. If you like SF and you haven’t…

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i’ve recently started to read banks too, mainly because some people say i’m like ‘the culture’ which is a strange analogy……

The Frown : BECOME REPUBLICAN!

more reasons than any ‘intelligent’ person needs….

t r u t h o u t – Bill Moyers | The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal

The news is not good these days. I can tell you, though, that as a journalist I know the news is never the end of the story. The news can be the truth that sets us free – not only to feel but to fight for the future we want. And the will to fight is the antidote to despair, the cure for cynicism, and the answer to those faces looking back at me from those photographs on my desk. What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart … the capacity to see, to feel and then to act as if the future depended on you.

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yep, scary….

Boycott City – News Archives

nice t-shirt

The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE):
The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE) is an international non-profit association founded with world class academics and business thought leaders to stimulate, and contribute to the development of the emerging Digital Economy, by promoting research projects as well as educational and training activities, in order to facilitate a balanced growth of the networked economy in Europe and in all countries of the world.
http://www.digiconomy.org/

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this looks like something to watch.

Bush: “I don’t know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act”:

cooltech.iafrica.com | tech news Teen buried after ‘blog suicide pact’

Some 1000 mourners gathered in the northern French port of Calais on Tuesday for the funeral of a 15-year-old girl who, along with another teen feared dead, had made a suicide pact published on the web in the form of a blog.

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hmmm…..

Fast Company Now

As a result, it’s no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs.

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wipe your memories, stop looking at anything, burn your eyes out, mine mine mine.