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• Who is The Publican of Philly?

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 697
  A Philadelphia friend and reader of this blog sends along news about what sounds like a terrific Philly-based Catholic publication, The Publican of Philadelphia. Heres what its about, and how editor Matthew Chominski decided to start the publication after being so alarmed and depressed over the quality of politics ...
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• Journalism coming full circle?

  
  Wikinomics — Authority: 459
  When talking about the impact of Web 2.0 on the newsmedia and journalism, there is a tendency to view blogs, search engines, wikis etc as disruptive technologies that have shaken up an age old order. I would argue that is not at all true, in fact, I would argue that the now commonplace blogs, wiki and citizen ...
  2 days ago

• Thanksgiving With the Neighbors

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Rock Island, IL A little over eleven years ago my wife and I put our daughter, now almost twelve (and memorizing a poem a day), in her stroller and walked from our rented condo to take a look at the house we now live in but were then closing on. The neighbors to the north came out to greet us, and we had a very ...
  5 days ago

• Kalk Bay localism

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 445
  Out beyond the kelp beds, there’s a bunch of surfers. So tightly packed are they that you can only estimate their numbers. Black wetsuits morph into one and other as the pack bobs over the incoming swells. Occasionally one peels away, paddles hard as the swell draws off the reef and drops behind the emerald curtain, ...
  6 days ago

• Education as Moral Formation: A Localist Proposal

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Holland, MI I heard many fine presentations at Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Culture from November 12-14, and one in particular that piqued my interest was delivered by Shawn Floyd of Malone University. Floyd addressed the issue of character formation in higher education, offering his paper up as ...
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• Interference From Lilliputian FMs Gets Senate Thumbs Up

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  Bill to remove third adjacent LPFM protection moves ahead On November 19 the Senate Commerce Committee approved S. 592 (“the Local Community Radio Act of 2009”) , a bill that would repeal the LPFM third adjacent channel protection requirement contained in Section 73.807 of the Commission’s rules.  The bill ...
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• Elizabeth Truss: Notting Hill brigade arent a patch on the Turnip Taliban

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Truss affair has become a standoff between people who would like their MP to be one of them and centralisers who want the parliamentary party to look more like the people around David Cameron writes Melanie McDonagh.
  2 weeks ago

• Multiple Ownership Workshops Start to Identify Issues for Quadrennial Review - Shared Services Agreements and Local Origination To Be Focus of Public Interest Groups

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 415
  What will be the issues that broadcasters need to be concerned about in next years Media Ownership proceeding?  To get a clue, broadcasters should watch and listen to the second day of the FCC workshop on multiple ownership , featuring members of various public interest groups in Washington the week before last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fag-End Fascists Take One Last Swing At Guildford

  
  Burning our money — Authority: 600
  A city targeted for significant change Throughout the long dark night of socialist hegemony, the plucky folk of Guildford have stood tall. Their worldly goods may have been pillaged to fund the fatherland, their schools and hospitals may have been run down and closed, they may have been threatened with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

  
  The Melangerie — Authority: 125
  The BBC reports, Private police provoke concern The growing number of private security companies policing UK streets is a worrying development, senior police figures say. [On on estate in Darlington,] residents pay between £2 and £4 a week to have their homes included in regular patrols and to receive an instant ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Global Mea Culpa

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  I screwed up but I don’t know how to apologize to the parties involved. In this age of global communication, highspeed networks, and outsourcing, the people who I offended are simply first names in far away places. Good manners are seldom mentioned as one of the victims of globalization. As a localist, I should ...
  2 weeks ago

• Localism and assemblage theory

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 484
  Several earlier posts have described the idea of "methodological localism" ( post ).  This is part of an argument I want to defend in support of the idea that we need new and better ways of thinking about the "stuff" of society. We need to thoroughly question and rethink the assumptions we make about social objects ...
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• Methodological localism

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 484
  I offer a social ontology that I refer to as methodological localism (ML).  This theory of social entities affirms that there are large social structures and facts that influence social outcomes.  But it insists that these structures are only possible insofar as they are embodied in the actions and states of ...
  2 weeks ago

• “And the Disciples Were Called Krustians First In …” —Acts 11:26, RSV (Revised Suburban Version)

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  … updated for these, our modern times, in which we live … Rock Island, IL In a former treatise , O Theophilus, I suggested assigning a new name to certain expressions of Christianity. I made a little attempt—an attemptchen , as the Krauts might put it—to say a thing or two about the dangers of living ...
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• The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 127
  A Natural Process ~ Needless E18 Hierarchical structure of Feudal Japan In Japan, merchants were seen as the lowest class of citizens as they lived off others’ labour. Often they were made to live in separate parts of the village and were not allowed to consort with other classes except when doing ...
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• Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, and the Limits of Localism

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Kearneysville, WV. Last week I published a piece suggesting ten positions that might serve to constitute a platform for those who are disillusioned by both major political parties and who long for an alternative that includes, among other things, a reversal of the concentration of power in Washington. Conspicuously ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ambient Intelligence Takes Social Networking To The Next Level …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 157
  Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically.
  3 weeks ago

• How to keep moving by not travelling

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 415
  Ive been working in Portsmouth this week, on a project looking at what happens when the military decides it doesnt want its land anymore. A few years ago it was relatively easy: developers eyes would light up, and to a background of imaginary cash tills theyd draw up plans for penthouse flats and swanky stores. Its ...
  3 weeks ago

• If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, Youll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 836
  We wrote Monday of Leftist, George Soros-funded "media reform" outfit Free Press, and their extensive relationships with people currently in power at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and in the White House - up to and including President Barack Obama. With current FCC Chief Diversity Officer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Localism with Teeth

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  “I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing one another by argument.  I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, and shooting one another.” –Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson Randolph “Anyone who observed us would conclude the purpose of all academic ...
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