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post-national solidarity
What is post-national solidarity? According to Seyla-Benhabib, it is “about creating the enlarged mentality, by teaching us to see from the standpoint of others, even when we do not agree with them. We extend the boundaries of our sympathy ...
links for 2008-11-21
BBC SPORT | Football | Gallas questions Arsenal courage "Arsenal captain William Gallas has warned the Gunners' young stars that they are 'not brave enough' to challenge for the Premier League title." And Gallas is not goo...
Links for 2008-11-20 [del.icio.us]
wowOwow Press Highlights | wowOwow "wowOwow is a free daily Internet website created, run and written by Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells, Sheila Nevins, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz C...
Quote of the Day
"Can you imagine the impact of Yahoo Personals on the dating scene between the Taliban and the Pashtun? It's like Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending."--a playful Sylvia Paull, writing on her blog
Poetry moment: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
A friend just sent me this:Wild Geeseby Mary Oliver You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about ...
I Haz Access
Moved in 12 days ago and discovered the house had no phone or cable jacks (so much for renovation). That meant almost 2 weeks of cafes, working in borrowed office space (thanks, techsoup!) and typing on the little tiny keyboard on my phone/PDA.How...
links for 2008-11-20
WSJ.com: Dow Falls Below 8000 Just in case you thought things were over, or even just getting better: “Stocks slid to fresh lows since the mid-September eruption of crisis in the world’s financial markets, putting an exclamation point ...
Links for 2008-11-19 [del.icio.us]
Abrams Research Launches: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance media launch well done Start - A Conference for Entrepreneurs Start is a one-day conference in San Francisco designed for smart, talented Web people to take hold of their ideas, follow the...
New: Abrams Media research-Where PR, consulting, and crowdsourcing blur
Are you a corporate entity looking for a "trusted media advisor"? Do you feel the need to go to a consultant company to plan your event panels? Are you someone who wants to supplement your firm's damage control of an event with good advice from a ...
Win media training for progressive women's voices in NYC
This just in from the Women's Media Center in NYC--the WMC's 2009 Progressive Women's Voices program is accepting applications with a December 15th deadline.Here's what the call to action says:The Progressive Women's Voices program has become a co...
Links for 2008-11-18 [del.icio.us]
The Wall Street Journal 50 Women to Watch in 2008 - WSJ.com According to a survey by Catalyst, a New York research group, women hold 15.4% of Fortune 500 corporate-officer jobs -- positions of vice president or higher that require board approval....
Off the Bus morphs in to HuffPo blogging army
Jay Rosen and Ariana Huffington have a great post up, congratulating the 12, 000+ people who worked on Off the Bus, the HuffPo/NewAssignment.net participatory journalism elections project. Big news: it worked. Next news: HuffPo is inviting al...
Quote of the Day
"despite the external environment we face, the fact remains that yahoo! is now a significantly different company that is stronger in many ways than it was just 18 months ago. this only makes it all the more essential that we manage this opportunit...
Losing Jerry Yang: Why CEO's departure reflects how Yahoo! has been broken
The news that Jerry Yang was stepping down as CEO of Yahoo! filled me with a mixture of delight and sadness. Delight, because anyone who drove their company's value into the ground like Yang did deserves to be removed (and, in truth, should ...
Is Diet Coke Poison?
So, over the summer at TechStars, my Diet Coke addiction grew. My 1 can a day went to 3 or more, and since I've been back, I've definitely been swilling 2+ cans a day. And I don't need anyone else to tell me this is bad.It is bad.So, as of right n...
Links for 2008-11-17 [del.icio.us]
dotcomdivas.net "Dotcomdivas.net is a supportive, open forum for women Internet entrepreneurs. Benefit from the knowledge, resources, and information shared by members! Membership is FREE." Women in Technology This series is comprised o...
Question of the Day: Who do you want to hear speak in Silicon Valley?
So, if you were coming to Silicon Valley and you could meet any luminary (Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Gina Bianchi, Eric Schmidt, Meg Whitman, and so on...) and hear them speak/give a talk-- who would you like to meet? Working on project and would ...
Links for 2008-11-15 [del.icio.us]
Welcome to the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation he Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the primary locus at Berkeley for the study and promotion of entrepreneurship and new enterprise development. The Lester Ce...
links for 2008-11-15
Slate: Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print? Ron Rosenbaum, playing the man but not the issue and - worse - doing so artlessly, micharacterises Jeff's positions as "heartless". (tags: news newmedia media journalism jeffjarvis futu...
Links for 2008-11-14 [del.icio.us]
Twitterank does having the highest twitrank = ADD? yep. "Highest Scoring Twitterers Here are twitterers ranked the highest by Twitterank. Frankly, I'm not sure it really means much, but we'll see what happens as the algorithm evolv...
Why We Should Feel Bullish For the Future of Journalism
What a week!!!!! Sunday I left San Francisco for a wedding in Charleston. Tuesday I left Charleston to visit Columbia's J-school to speak (video here). Thursday I left New York for Miami to help out with this years Knight News Challenge screening....
links for 2008-11-14
Iain Duff: Ibrox Disaster 1902 [A postcard] written in ancient German script, were sent by a young man in Glasgow to his relatives in Hamburg on April 7, two days after the disaster. (tags: rangers ibrox ibroxdisaster1902)
Links for 2008-11-13 [del.icio.us]
La Cocina Incubator Kitchen — how to apply "La Cocina provides low-income entrepreneurs with the resources that they need to launch and grow their businesses in a feasible way. When applying to La Cocina, please read carefully the guid...
We’re all blogging now
Attempts to define what blogging is risk missing the point; blogging's influence has spread far beyond blogs themselves
links for 2008-11-13
Times Online: FA asks Joe Kinnear to explain ‘Mickey Mouse referee’ insult Umm… what, exactly, does the FA need to have explained? (tags: insults newcastle joekinnear)
Links for 2008-11-12 [del.icio.us]
StartupEmpire – Canada's Conference for Startups Starup north nov 13th canada...are there any canadians speaking? hard to tell...austin hill, mebbe.... BLOG08 conference - Rockstars of the Web! Bog 90 rockstars of the web..european conferen...
Sic' em: Rosenbaum goes after Jarvis; who comes off better?
Is it totally old school to watch when two media pundits turned new media pundits get into a blogosphere cat fight? How do we evaluate the winners--by their stance on the side of right, their chest-thumping, their clearly superior logic, or ...
Quote of the Day
"From conglomerates to internet ventures, executives should be planning now on a decline of up to 40% in advertising spending during this cycle. Instead they're sleepwalking into economic extinction--even those lean online ventures which were supp...
South Park elevates the art of the “sorry, no” page
You can't watch the post-election South Park in the UK just yet, but at least the sorry page is funny (with picture)
links for 2008-11-12
Flickr: The Please Move Down Pool Shame those commuters who block aisles and thus prevent others getting on busy trains, by taking a picture of the selfish so-and-sos and posting it on Flickr. For the social good? Militancy? Or bullying? Even vigi...
Links for 2008-11-11 [del.icio.us]
Foundation Overview Kaufman Foundation"The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kauffman Foundation is the 30...
Joined, Not Merged--Keeping a room of one's own
New post at BlogHer: "After all those statements about never living with someone, after wanting to make sure my independence was something I wouldn't (once again) mistakenly give away, A & I are moving in together. (You know it's real when you...
challenges of the polyglot internet
Ethan Zuckerman has a wonderfully provocative post on how he sees translation as the biggest challenge facing the future of the internet. If the internet is truly to deliver the promise of connecting people worldwide, one of the main barriers, if ...
Calling you out of your name: Fast Company author takes on sexist assholes
I am thrilled by saabira chaudhuri who's written a superb piece about the assholes whose take on her piece on the influential Women of Web.20 showed their brains live below the waist.She writes: " What is it about the online space that brings out ...
alternative civic engagement blog
A blog, called Alternative Civic Engagement, by my dear colleague Weiyu Zhang, who is now assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. I particularly enjoyed her (docu-fictional) conversation with three law professors (Benkler, Les...
why is there no Voice of America for Americans?
Professor Monroe Price has a fascinating piece on how public diplomacy in the Obama era might look like. He draws on the notions of hospitality as a key value in rethinking the role of public diplomacy in an era that is global and networked. ...
links for 2008-11-11
WSJ.com: The Man Behind The Wall Street Journal "Barney Kilgore [was] the inventor of much of what constitutes modern newspaper journalism. Yesterday would have been his one hundredth birthday, and his story deserves our attention… He unders...
Links for 2008-11-10 [del.icio.us]
BlogHer Announces Its Fifth Annual Conference Will Return to Chicago July 24-25, 2009 - MarketWatch 'BlogHer, the Web's number-one guide to blogs by women, will host its fifth annual conference July 24-25 at the Sheraton Hotel and Tower...
Launching The Spot.Us Ship: Community Funded Reporting
It's a simple principle: Journalism is a process, not a product - and that process should be participatory. That sentence describes what I have worked for throughout my journalism career. I am constantly trying to push that principle forward. It s...
Quote of the Day
"...now we have the delicious irony that a white president from a patrician family, whose administration was so negligent about America's poor and black citizens, was so incompetent that he helped elect the first black president."--NYTimes op-ed c...
Spot.us launches; nice to have NYTimes cover your beta
David Cohn's Knight News Challenge-funded project, Spot.us, which I have been a bit of an advisot to launches today--and is the subject of a NYTimes story.Spot Us, is the Craigs' List/marketplace approach to bews, allowed reports to pr...
Web 2.0 Summit wrap up
Sitting in Oakland on Sunday later afternoon, the Web 2.0 conference already seems far away, but some of the connections and conversations are still resonating. Web 2.0, this year, was one of those conferences that proved that travelling lon...
links for 2008-11-09
Scottish newspaper sales in 2008 Record - 341k, Herald - 61k, Scotsman - 49k (tags: scotland newspapers sales) Scottish newspapers sales in 1997 Record - 693k, Herald - 104k, Scotsman - 78k (tags: scotland newspapers sales)
links for 2008-11-08
WSJ.com: When Is a Gratuity Gratuitous? Oh dear. It turns out I'm a shocking tipper - 10-15% on a restaurant bill is nowhere near generous in the US. Americans tip about $42 billion a year. I'm lucky not to have been chased out of eateri...
Links for 2008-11-07 [del.icio.us]
The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan social media tools for business-As corporate adoption emerges, there’s nothing wrong with learning lessons from others and making them your own. Start by making sure you have all of your bases covered with...
A Civil Rights Movement in San Francisco - Gay Marriage Protest
As the liberal U.C. Berkeley graduate now living in San Francisco I was bummed about Proposition 8 being passed, which outlawed gay marriage. From the video below, I think you'll see that this is more than just a proposition on the California ball...
Web 2.0 Summit: Isaac Mao
Isaac Mao is one of my heroes and it is thrilling to see him speaking at this conference. Isaac wrote a letter to Google about their censorship practices in China and has been a major force in Chinese blogging and social media (and he is bri...
Rebecca McKinnon: Global voices, Global oppression
Listening to the brilliant Rebecca McKinnon talking about whether the spread of capitalism--like Murdoch--actually supports the growth of freedom and democracy in China?Rebecca: Pre-founding Global Voices, American bloggers were pointing to and li...
Friday: Notes from Web 2.0 Summit
Lunch: Ever notice how at conferences, you end up meeting exactly the right people you didn't know, often by complete accident? That truth led me to a table at Web 2.0 Friday lunch where I connected with no one. Might as well have been invis...