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Giving a damn for the media

Giving a damn for the media

By Joyce Mcmillan. Typically missing from most of the plans put forward in the UK media debate is any really innovative thought about how to raise new resources to support high-quality journalism in new times. Back in January, while (...)

18 Mar. | | openDemocracy

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Twitter, Avatars, and Influence

Twitter, Avatars, and Influence

People use Twitter for lots of different purposes. I use Twitter to keep up with friends, find new things on the ‘Net that I wouldn’t otherwise see, and to tell others what I’m thinking. Another word for that final purpose is (...)

18 Mar. 2010 | | Phil Windley

Rising Gas Prices, Falling Corn Prices Could Mean Comeback for Ethanol

Rising Gas Prices, Falling Corn Prices Could Mean Comeback for Ethanol

Amid rising gasoline prices and falling corn prices, ethanol may be poised for a comeback of sorts, even if only a temporary one. Even though conventional wisdom is that crude has to reach about $100 a barrel before ethanol is economical, compared to (...)

18 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

More Macthink

More Macthink

Computing is fun again. It’s new and mysterious. There are unexpected surprises and so far, no unexcited headaches. It has been just a few days, and I’m digging my Mac. The first surprise is that many of my finger disciplines are working OK on (...)

18 Mar. 2010 | | Cobb

Facebook: The FBI is Your Friend?

Facebook: The FBI is Your Friend?

Just because someone on Facebook is friends with 23 of your friends doesn’t mean any single one of those 23 people has meet that person in real life. Should you add then if they ask to be your friend? Well, if you post updates about your drug (...)

17 Mar. 2010 | | Lisa Derrick

Pelosi Likes Slaughter Solution Because Her Dems “Won’t Have To Vote” On The Senate Health Care Bil

Pelosi Likes Slaughter Solution Because Her Dems “Won't Have To Vote” On The Senate Health Care Bil

The Democrat push to pass the Senate health care bill in the House without actually voting on it has gotten a lot of attention today. But even so, I can’t help but highlight these comments from Pelosi. Because they’re so appallingly cynical, (...)

17 Mar. 2010 | | Rob Port

Video: 45 killed: Gloom engulfs LAHORE following twin SUICIDE don’t give up now!

45 killed: Gloom engulfs LAHORE following twin SUICIDE Don’t give up now! Don’t be confused people you are squeezing them, they are on the run and getting desperate, now is the time to step harder. This is coming together. White House Weighs (...)

17 Mar. 2010 | | James Joiner

Shipping Indices Highlight a Potential Commodities Sell off

Shipping Indices Highlight a Potential Commodities Sell off

The China Containerized Freight Index has bee-lined upward in 2010. The index tracks shipping prices for goods sailing from China to 11 different regions around the world. Between January 15 and February 26, the index rose 17%. During the same period, (...)

17 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Crisis : Handle your business folk

Crisis : Handle your business folk

While many of us walk around oblivious too the serious economic conundrum our country is in, and remain inattentive to the world around us and feel secure in our little niche with our weekly pay checks, it is really a troubling time in our beloved (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Crude Prices Stagnate Amid Doubts About Global Demand

Crude Prices Stagnate Amid Doubts About Global Demand

Crude oil prices tread water for the week as uncertainty about demand continued to weigh on the market. Prices were down slightly on the week, with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate settling on Friday at $81.24 a barrel, compared with $81.50 a week (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Times misleads readers on Acalanes school tax proposal

Times misleads readers on Acalanes school tax proposal

The Contra Times editorial of March 10 supported a new parcel tax by the Acalanes Union High School District (AUHSD). The AUHSD Board voted on February 2 to place a $112 tax on a May 4 mail-in ballot, giving a mere 24 hours notice to the public that they (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Halfway To Concord

Damage Done By Nigeria’s Contentious Oil Bill May Be Tough To Undo

Damage Done By Nigeria's Contentious Oil Bill May Be Tough To Undo

Nigeria’s controversial oil industry bill is expected to eventually pass but the government may find it tough to later shift gears as international oil firms targeted under the legislation scale back their investments. The Nigerian parliament is (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone!

Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone!

“A very dark, very frightening corporate scheme is being carefully orchestrated around the world with the full and active support and cooperation of governments and public administrations. “The inter-linked, multi-national corporations are (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Jon Newton

Ethanol: maybe less of a neccessity

Ethanol: maybe less of a neccessity

The growth of ethanol production, due to the need first of some countries, mainly Brazil, for energetic independence and second to the fact of ethanol being the next best alternative after fossil energy, has often been blamed for the rise in food (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Bensred

The Debt Potato

The Debt Potato

The past year has been all about shifting debt. The financial crisis drove American homeowners into debt. Homeowners defaulted on their loans (or threatened to), driving the banks into debt. The U.S. government bailed out the banks, shifting debt to the (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Interview With Alice Miller About Child Mistreatment

Interview With Alice Miller About Child Mistreatment

Alice Miller received her PhD at the University of Basle and worked as a psychotherapist in Zurich for 20 years. In 1980, she decided to dedicate herself completely to her research on childhood and its tragic influence on the adult’s life. Ever (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | bubul01

DOE stimulus grant throws spotlight on growing need for energy storage

DOE stimulus grant throws spotlight on growing need for energy storage

A new stimulus grant of $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that includes support for grid-scale energy storage projects is the latest sign of the growing need to find ways of storing energy from electricity production. While traditionally (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Are you a weekend fly fisher, do you like to take the kids fishing, do you take vacations surrounded by the prospects of reeling in the “Big One” with future stories about how it got away? Or do you like to simply sit with your line in the (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Liberally Conservative

HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

As a Nurse of over 20+ years I have been very disheartened as the Health Care Battle has dragged on all these Months. I have diligently blogged the Battle, researching and covering Statistics,Data, Interviewing Americans with Nightmare Health Stories, and (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Enigma4ever

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

By Paul Rogers. The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate researchers on the defensive. But the experience of comparable assaults on the discipline of peace studies in (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

Groundbreaking Developments in Gold and Mineral Exploration

I’m spending a few days in Toronto at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual conference. This is one of the mining industry’s largest events. Thousands of companies descend on the site to promote their projects. (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

The new French revolution

The new French revolution

France, Canada and the UK are among countries united in their determination to ram home the Three Strikes element of ACTA, the entertainment industry’s last desperate attempt to gain exclusive control of how, and by whom, content is distributed (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

From day one Karl Rove built a Political career on lying he will not change now!

From day one Karl Rove built a Political career on lying he will not change now!

Read about Rove’s career and how he built his career on lying and that is why those aspiring to the Presidency wanted him on their side. He never told the truth and he will not start now. Read the link, the denials and BS lies he fed Matt Lauer (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | James Joiner

A Bull Market Requires a Healthy Consumer Underneath

A Bull Market Requires a Healthy Consumer Underneath

A year ago this week the stock market hit its nefarious 666 level on the S&P 500. Since that historic day, we have enjoyed a 68% appreciation in equities from their depressionary low. Not only has the bounce caused a chorus of perma-bulls to claim the (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse—Not anywhere where Glenn Beck just happens to be

Glenn Beck

During last Tuesday’s fleeting hour, while he was interviewing the very troubled former New York congressman, Eric Massa, Glenn Beck was out of his mind. This was the first time the whining, weeping conservative talk show host sounded, sounded, (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Monroe Anderson

Nancy Pelosi Shocked To Learn That Her Office Was Notified Of Massa’s Ethics Complaints In February

Nancy Pelosi Shocked To Learn That Her Office Was Notified Of Massa's Ethics Complaints In February

Pelosi claimed last week that she hadn’t learned of ethics complaints against Massa until that Wed. As it turns out, her office got a formal complaint in February. Uh oh: a Pelosi aide told POLITICO on Wednesday evening that Massa’s chief of (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Rob Port

There Will be No Economic Recovery as the Era of Cheap Oil Comes to an End

There Will be No Economic Recovery as the Era of Cheap Oil Comes to an End

When oil crossed $120 a barrel for the first time in May 2008, oil cornucopians knew they were in trouble. Prices had quadrupled in just five years, yet had failed to bring new production online. Regular crude had flatlined around 74 million barrels per (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

Given the Democrat vs. Republican and left vs. right rancor that seems to suffuse every issue today, the conservative pushback against the despicable Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol over their McCarthyite tagging of Department of Justice lawyers who defended (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

Arts & Entertainment

Hooray for Hollywood!

Hooray for Hollywood!

In the Old Testament, a young shepherd vanquished a formidable giant in the Valley of Elah. At the 2010 Oscar ceremony, David again triumphed over Goliath with a stone called “The Hurt Locker.” The flood of awards moved viewers around the (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Wajid Ali Syed

Libya: The Energy Player Not to Be Dismissed

Libya: The Energy Player Not to Be Dismissed

On September 1, 2009, Libya lavishly celebrated the 40 years in power of its leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Once qualified as the mad dog of the Middle East by President Ronald Reagan, Gaddafi has demonstrated a sheer ability to make of his once pariah (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Forward Thinking Telecoms

Executives from the telecoms industry have just met at the closed-door NGT20 meeting to discuss the vision for the future and key growth markets. 2010 so far has been un-momentous in the telecoms industry, but this is about to change if we are to believe (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Emma Naylor

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