498 posts tagged politics 2.0

In Finland, Government Disconnects Itself May 14, 2008 – 12:48 pm I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one. Apparently, Finnish copyright law has a clause that says file sharers can be disconnected from the Internet. I’ve written about this idea before, and, as you might imagine, I don’t like it one bit.

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John F. Kennedy has become something of a modern myth. Those of us who are history buffs know how truly incredible he was as a political figure, but often times the substance of what he actually stood for gets lost in the mythical fog of hindsight.

Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use.

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Well - I made it along to Pangea day in the end. When I say in the end, I mean that I got round to it after a fashion, because when the weather is glorious and you begin barbecuing then its mighty difficult to break off and go to some event perceived as being ‘worthy’.

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As a vibrant follow up to the episodes about technology and politics, this week Kathy and Paige interview the founder of Skewz.com, Vipul Vyas. The discussion ranges from the use of the site and online dialogue to help people understand the slant/agenda of media sources, developing critical thinking and supportiung dynamic dialogue across political, religious and different constituency groups.

The Legacy of the Obama Phenomenon May 10, 2008 – 4:07 pm by Steve Levine Win or lose in November, this Associated Press piece raises some interesting questions about the meaning of the Obama phenomenon: The entire nation and countless foreigners are absorbing a moment that had seemed decades away, if possible at all.

I’d guess that just about every candidate for public office in this country has established a web site to support his or her campaign. But should we allow a 5th grader running for president of the student association to do the same thing?