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February 28, 2006
30 million bloggers and counting ......
from netpublics: participation + change.
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February 24, 2006
The Ancient Commission
He accepted
This commission
Without
Flinching
Exposing the dangerous faults and failures of a nation while managing to celebrate what was good and noble in its people.
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February 23, 2006
Things You Can Do With Your One-Person Magazine
Jay talked about blogging and magazine journalism here:
- Interview newsmakers and get them to explain themselves.
- Syndicate new writing.
- Be a pamphleteer.
- Conduct a debate with participants in a live controversy.
- Or try and retire a dead debate.
- You can cover a simple speech.
and more.
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February 21, 2006
All the dust we raised
......
Heisenberg And once again away he goes, into the dark water.
Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life's over.
Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we are gone and laid to dust.
Bohr Settled among all the dust we raised.
Margrethe And sooner or later there will come a time when all our children and laid to dust, and all our children's children.
Bohr When no more decisions, great or small, are ever made again. When there's no more uncertainty, because there's no more knowledge.
Margrethe And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonored and beloved world?
Heisenberg But in the meanwhile, in this most precious meanwhile, there it is. The trees in Facelled Park. Gammertingen and Biberach and Mindelheim. Our children and our children's children. Preserved, just possibly, by that one short moment in Copenhagen. By some event that will never quite be located or defined. By that final core of uncertainty at the heart of things.
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Are we free?
"What matters to people is how they should live with other people. The great questions of social life are "Who am I?" (To what kind of a group do I belong?) and "What should I do?" (Are there many or few prescriptions I am expected to obey?).
Groups are strong or weak according to whether they have boundaries separating them from others. Decisions are taken either for the group as a whole (strong boundaries) or for individuals or families (weak boundaries). Prescriptions are few or many, indicating the individual internalizes a large or a small set of behavioral norms to which he or she is bound. "
......the variability of an individual's involvement in social life can be adequately captured by two dimensions of sociality: group and grid. Group refers to the extent to which an individual is incorporated into bounded units. The greater the incorporation, the more individual choice is subject to group determination. Grid denotes the degree to which an individual's life is circumscribed by externally imposed prescriptions. The more binding and extensive the scope of the prescriptions, the less of life that is open to individual negotiations.
......It is social relationships that are primary and dominant, and shape people's preferences.
......People seek reinforcement in the media for their basic beliefs and values and, at the same time, wish to avoid cognitive dissonance - things are attack these beliefs and values.
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February 17, 2006
Koyaanisqatsi
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February 14, 2006
Perfect Harmony
"So I say to the wind of evening,
Go, then, catch up with them
In the shadows of the dense wood
For that is their intimate abode
Pass on to them a greeting of peace
From a brother fallen into sadness
Whose heart is sore distressed
By separation from his near ones"
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February 12, 2006
His Principles
"These are principles that have become universal, that are well known to all of us. Principles that talk about corporate responsibility for those nations that are in need.”
Colin Powell
May 7, 2005
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February 11, 2006
Yahoo! Catching Up
Tag Search, My Web to go, for all you bloggers out there, Bulk editing, etc.
(Thanks, John!)
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February 07, 2006
Unbroken Poetry
Sea and Snow
History: Boy with Canary
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