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• How many eurobloggers can dance on the head of a pin?

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 152
  So the debate about the Euroblogosphere, or the Eurosphere, or the European Public Sphere, or web2eu, or the European online public space, of whatever-we-call-it-next-week, has sparked again into life, like a Frankensteinian monster with dodgy spark plugs screwed into the base of its neck. The latest incarnation is ...
  3 days ago

• EU & USA: SWIFT agreement ─ Euroblogs and civil society

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 479
  Is the proposed SWIFT financial data transfer agreement between the European Union and the United States of America an example of how civil society and Euroblogs take up important societal issues, where our governments are less than forthcoming? I have not traced the matters to their roots, but I suspect that ...
  1 week ago

• Giant Panda and Eurosphere

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 479
  Does the Giant Panda exist? It may be a conservation reliant endangered species, but few would doubt its existence. How about the Eurosphere, aka European public sphere, or a small part of it, the Euroblogs? Euroblogs exist: Bloggingportal.eu aggregates 487 of them. Joe Litobarski does not doubt that there ...
  1 week ago

• The Immanent Frame - The power of religion in the public sphere

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  Very interesting lectures. Audio: The power of religion in the public sphere posted by Charles Gelman Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together on Thursday, October 22 in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss “ Rethinking Secularism .” In an ...
  1 week ago

• Bill for women’s quota in urban bodies in Lok Sabha

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) A bill seeking 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies was introduced Tuesday in Parliament.Introducing the constitutional (112th Amendment) bill in the Lok Sabha, Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said: “Enhancement of reservation for women in urban local bodies will ...
  1 week ago

• Ed D’Angelo’s book translated into Japanese

  
  Library Juice — Authority: 459
  One of the first books from Library Juice Press was Ed D’Angelo’s Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good , and it has been our best selling book so far. We’re pleased to announce that the book has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Return to Paris Streets

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 120
  During last weeks trip to the Chicago Art Institute, I delighted at the opportunity to revisit Gustave Caillebottes 1876-77 Paris Street; Rainy Day , a critique of urban life I discussed in a recent post . My favorite part of seeing the piece up close once more? The chance to spot intriguing details in this ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Facebook Group Takes On Marriage (and God) in the Middle East

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 124
  “We are witnessing a fundamental change in how individuals can interact with their democracy and experience their role as citizens.  Ideal citizens need not be seen purely as trying to inform themselves about what others have found, so that they can vote intelligently.  They need not be limited to reading the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is humor ever not funny?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  "The Office" has gotten a lot of attention over the past week or so for its Halloween episode , which showed boss Michael Scott in a noose, sharing a particularly poorly worded suicide prevention message. I was struck by how a similar image, also in the public sphere this past week, generated a different kind of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Science as Polemic

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 122
  Charles Kurzman’s recent essay in the Chronicle Review , “Social Science on Trial: Reading Weber in Tehran” ( http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Science-on-Trial-in/48949/ ), seems to confirm much of what we already suspect about non-Western fundamentalist regimes. Namely, that religious government and civil ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trillions and the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 120
  Click the image for an interesting note on trillions and the next revolution in computing... Some interesting quotes: "Trillions of computers: This is not computing as a place, or computing as a big calculator. Its going to be computing as an ecology. Its all around us. Not information in the computers, but people ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cheap Bikes, High Cost

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 120
  Steven Erlanger ( NYT , registration may be required) writes a sad yet strangely hopeful article about the current state of an ultracheap bicycle rental program in Paris, a means to reduce carbon emissions and enhance healthy living. The problem is that 80 percent of the first bikes in the program have been trashed or ...
  5 weeks ago

• Dennis Prager Disagrees With Giving Jewish Kids Distinctively Jewish Names

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 441
  Dennis said on his radio show today that he disagrees with Jewish parents who give their kids distinctively Jewish names. I guess he means names such as Dovid or Shmuel or Dov. Dennis says they should have their Hebrew names and then their English names, which they use in the wider American culture. Dennis also does ...
  5 weeks ago

• From Public Theatre to Public Theory

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 414
  I assume few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a decade ago it would have been impossible for most of us to get any kind of public attention for our ...
  5 weeks ago

• Pick Up Your Visual Scanning!

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 120
  Remember the scene in Star Wars when an X-Wing pilot shouted, "Pick up your visual scanning"? Stripping away the geek-speak, he was simply reminding us that when storming a Death Star, were wise to look out the window once in a while. Thats good advice, especially as more and more people wander the lanes and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Text-Talk, Like Kudzu, Continues to Colonize

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 120
  Earlier this month, I came across a CNN story [ link ] about a reality show performer named Kandi Burruss whose fiance, Ashley "A.J." Jewell, was beaten to death at a strip club called "Body Tap." You cant make these names up, but thats not my point. What struck me (so to speak) was CNNs inclusion of Kandis Twitter ...
  5 weeks ago

• MLM Business - The Information You Should Know About

  
  Start Your Own Online Business Presence — Authority: 139
  Quite dramatically the presence of Ebay, Amazon.com and other virtual department stores rubbed shoulders with the national advertising campaigns of the largest department store chains. Indeed, even the chains such as Toys’RUs made concerted efforts to have a Web presence and compete directly with the e-retailers. ...
  6 weeks ago

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