Saving Democracy With Web 2.0

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Wednesday October 25, 2006 · 7:38 AM PDT

2006/10/25 · 07:38

Just a great article to bring everyone up to speed on latest technology efforts re-democratize our democracy.

Though it may not be obvious, the road marks in this amorphous thing called Web 2.0 are political: grassroots participation, forging new connections, and empowering from the ground up. The ideal democratic process is participatory and the Web 2.0 phenomenon is about democratizing digital technology.

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Fear, loathing, and disdain of the MSM

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Monday October 09, 2006 · 6:43 AM PDT

2006/10/09 · 06:43

I thought you'd enjoy these observations on the 'mindset and mentality' of the MSM from Michael Arrington whose blogs are TechCrunch and CrunchNotes.

Last weekend he attended the Online News Association Conference in Wash DC and said it was a gross mistake.

Some excerpts:

I am routinely harangued by mainstream media as well, who neither understand blogging or care to. The most common attack is that bloggers are not and never will be objective in their writing for one reason or another. I assumed giving a little bit of criticism back would spark debate, not ostracism. But I found that mainstream media is not comfortable being questioned. I assume that's because they've insulated themselves from feedback, and therefore haven't grown a thick skin. Read More

Barry Goldwater vs the Religious Right

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 3:57 PM PDT

2006/09/25 · 15:57

I posted this on HR 2679, "Christian Supremacy Act", Up For House Vote Tuesday then realized it shoudl be it's own diary.

Barry Goldwater :
"I don't have any respect for the Religious Right."
"Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell's ass."
"The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others,"
"A woman has a right to an abortion."

"I am a conservative Republican," Barry Goldwater wrote in a 1994 Washington Post essay, "but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state." Read More

Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries,

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 8:36 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 20:36

Read this and see reasons why over the past 20 yrs Americans have become dazed and confused courtesy of the Republicans.

James Owen
National Geographic News
August 10, 2006
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...

People in the United States are much less likely to accept Darwin's idea that humans evolved from apes than adults in other Western nations, a number of surveys show.

A new study of those surveys suggests that the main reason for this lies in a unique confluence of religion, politics, and the public understanding of biological science in the United States. Read More

Blue Fund touts investment in Democratic firms

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 9:18 AM PDT

2006/06/16 · 09:18

Friday June 16, 11:23 am ET

Democrats who love to play the stock market now have a chance to really toe the party line.

Blue Investment Management said it plans offer its Blue Fund, which invests only in companies that give the majority of their political contributions to Democratic candidates and adhere to progressive values, the company announced in a SEC filing earlier this week.

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Trade Settlement could create $480M Slush Fund for White House

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Monday June 12, 2006 · 3:02 PM PDT

2006/06/12 · 15:02

This Think Progress article needed posting here for more visibility

SOURCE: Obscure Trade Settlement Could Create $480 Million Slush Fund for White House
http://thinkprogress.org/...

The resolution of an obscure trade dispute involving imports of Canadian lumber to the United States could result in a $480 million slush fund for the White House, according to a lawyer familiar with the case. Read More

Technology and the Future of Warfare

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Friday March 24, 2006 · 5:47 PM PST

2006/03/24 · 17:47

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Technology and the Future of Warfare

Author and Pentagon advisor John Arquilla believes that today's big weapons systems are wrong for modern battle.

By Mark Williams

In 2007, the Pentagon's budget will exceed the combined military spending of every other country in the world. In round numbers, according to the U.S. Department of Defense's own Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), published this past February, the American military will spend more than $440 billion next year, supplemented with another $120 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It would be more reassuring, then, if the Pentagon's four-year plan for how its strategic priorities and force structure align with its budget made for less schizophrenic reading. Read More

Patriot Search

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 9:53 AM PST

2006/01/19 · 09:53

http://blog.outer-court.com/...

Our Mission

Whether you are a normal searcher, someone trying to download illegal material, a terrorist looking to build a bomb, or just hunting porn, we at Patriot Search welcome you!

Our mission is to provide the best possible search engine to you while at the same time, making sure the government is informed should you search for something obscure, illegal, or unpatriotic.

Instead of letting the government waste tax money by going through complicated procedures to get user and search data from Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves or Google, users of Patriot Search make sure their queries end up right where they belong - in the databases of the government and its various agencies. Read More

The Bush Economy and rising wages at Walmart

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 9:35 AM PST

2006/01/11 · 09:35

Wal-Mart says workers' wages are climbing
Wednesday January 11, 12:06 pm ET

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. added 125,000 new jobs in 2005, and the retailer also announced Tuesday that its average hourly wage for full-time store associates rose from $9.68 to $10.11 over the year.

Time for more snow job drivel from from our Treasury Secretary Read More

America's Most Literate Cities, 2005

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Monday December 05, 2005 · 4:56 PM PST

2005/12/05 · 16:56

John W. Miller, President of Central Connecticut State University America's Most Literate Cities, 2005 "Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America's Most Literate Cities study ranks the 69 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. Read More

Mobile Voter -- voter registration by SMS

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 5:37 AM PST

2005/11/03 · 05:37

Mobile Voter that lets users register to vote by sending an SMS message (more specifically, the user texts a CSC, Mobile Voter determines the appropriate district and then mails the correct forms to the user to sign and send back).

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EPIC: Evolving Personalized Information Construct

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Monday October 10, 2005 · 9:19 AM PDT

2005/10/10 · 09:19

This Flash presentation is better than drugs http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic created by journalists Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History (a fictitious institution). EPIC 2015 traces an unbroken history of information delivery from the invention of the WWW to the collapse of the NY Times which, after losing a Supreme Court copyright case to Google in 2011, becomes a "print-only newsletter for the elite and elderly." Read More

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