November 2011
54 posts
October 2011
36 posts
It is because of my kids
I’m worried about the world they will live in. The world they’ll raise
their children in.
Will it be a world where they worry about how to take care of their sick
children? Or how they’ll give them a good education? Will they have a
chance to succeed and grow and see their dreams before their eyes? Will
they have clean air and water and wilderness left to them?
These are...
New Approaches for a New Era | American... →
sad, the article outlines how things are being done now, considered innovative, which are all suggestions we made that were ignored back in the late 90s. it really shows how a reflective culture cannot be innovative, for they focus so much on mirroring what they observe and echoing what they hear.
“Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to open a rulemaking calling...”
– FCC Poised to Take the Lead on Political Advertising Transparency - Sunlight Foundation
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Bonuses Worthy of Protest for Gannett and Tribune... →
disgusting. absolutely. there is a reason why mainstream media has ignored occupy wall street and has tried to diminish it at every step. they’re the megaphones for the one percent, not the 99 percent.
“Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the...”
– Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
This is what data visualization can do, journalists.
Meet the New Digital Public Library of America →
The Digital Public Library of America, an organization dedicated to building a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all, held its first plenary meeting in Washington DC this morning and announced $5 million in funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund. “What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the...
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
2010 CEO pay chart, sorted by total - USATODAY.com →
please note positions of media and telecom ceos among health insurance, petroleum, etc.
Intellectual Roots of Wall Street Protest Lie in... →
“In the first full week of October, according to Pew’s Project for Excellence in...”
– Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story - NYTimes.com
the movement is five weeks old. and this is what objective journalism coverage is.
Nobel Winners Saved Macroeconomics After Keynes:... →
Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts... →
Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on... →
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society |... →
Facebook Is As Big As The Internet Of 2004 →
Facebook’s population is currently at 800 million users, which is slightly more users than the Internet of early 2004, based on data from InternetWorldStats.com. Check out a chart chronicling the growth of the Internet after the jump.
“Overall, spending in the U.S. communications industry will top $1.120 trillion...”
– Report: Industry revs to fall through ‘15
“Changing human activities coupled with a dynamic environment over the past few...”
– Decline and recovery of coral reefs linked to 700 years of human and environmental activity 