Le futur de la Caroline Blogosphere : Édition De Charlotte

Comment et pourquoi Blogs changera le futur

Comme nous explorons le futur de la Caroline du nord, nous aux anonyMoses tamisera par les idées des bloggers régionaux, avec l'emphase particulière sur des bloggers de région de Charlotte... avec la logique étant triple. D'abord, je suis ici. Je suis un blogger de Charlotte. La deuxième raison étant que la colline de Greensboro et de chapelle ont déjà a après, en ce qui concerne blogging et le blogosphere... et certainement un présent dynamique. Charlotte, d'autre part, est plus de futur, moins après. Mais par écrit au sujet de Charlotte blogging, et comment il se relie au futur de la Caroline du nord, ce sera une joie nécessaire pour consulter et se rapporter aux succès et aux leçons de la colline de Greensboro et de chapelle...Dans le meilleur des cas, chaque bloggercon de réussite avancerait tout ce qui a été appris de chacune de ceux précédants, puis l'essai pour s'améliorer sur lui manières de bonnes et de roman. Par exemple, nous voulons avoir un mélange plus équitable des hommes et des femmes, et un éventail, socio-économique et racial. La musique de phase pendant et après que la conférence soit discutée, et nous espèrent que la vaste et merveilleuse de musique scène de Charlotte participera, avec la musique et les blogs. Mon espoir est que la soirée apportera un concert libre comportant des musiciens et des artistes de secteur, qui si tout va bien aussi blog. D'ici peu ce sera le cas qu'une bande devra simplement annoncer leur concert sur leur blog afin d'emballer l'endroit. Il happeing déjà, sûrement.Et quand un blogger légèrement chevronné voyage à un autre environnement blog-riche, tel que Greensboro, colline de chapelle, Asheville... lui ou elle n'a pas besoin d'être un étranger en ville. Annoncez que vous prenez le voyage, et chargez-vous de rencontrer les bloggers locaux au-dessus du café ou du thé vert. Il déjà est fait. Dans mais un filet jusqu'ici cependant.Parmi les bloggers de Charlotte-secteur que j'ai recueillis, jusqu'ici, est ce qui suit. Pendant que je procède, j'espère trouver les secteurs qui ont besoin se développer, et puis essaye d'affecter le changement vers le corriger, rapportant l'échec ou le succès, comme se produit. Je pense que vous constaterez qu'il y a une gamme assez étendue parmi les bloggers suivants, mais les suggestions sont plus que la bienvenue.

Como exploramos el futuro de Carolina del Norte, nosotros en los anonyMoses tamizará con las ideas de bloggers regionales, con énfasis particular en bloggers del área de Charlotte... con la lógica que es triple. Primero, estoy aquí. Soy un blogger de Charlotte. La segunda razón que es que la colina de Greensboro y de la capilla tiene ya a más allá de, en lo que concierne a blogging y el blogosphere... y ciertamente un presente dinámico. Charlotte, por otra parte, es más futuro, menos más allá de. Pero en escribir sobre Charlotte blogging, y cómo se relaciona con el futuro de Carolina del Norte, consistirá una alegría necesaria para consultar y para referir a los éxitos y a las lecciones de la colina de Greensboro y de la capilla...Idealmente, cada bloggercon que tiene éxito traería adelante todo que fue aprendida de cada uno el preceder, después intento para mejorar sobre él de maneras buenas y de la novela. Por ejemplo, deseamos tener una mezcla más equitativa de hombres y de mujeres, y una gama más amplia, socio-economically-econo'mico y racial. La música viva durante y después de que se esté discutiendo la conferencia, y nosotros esperamos que la escena extensa y maravillosa de Charlotte de la música participe, con música y blogs. Mi esperanza es que la tarde traerá un concierto libre que ofrece a músicos y a los artistas del área, que esperanzadamente también blog. Después de poco tiempo será el caso que una venda apenas tendrá que anunciar su concierto en su blog para embalar el lugar. Happeing ya, seguramente.Y cuando un blogger algo chevronné viaja a otro ambiente blog-rico, tal como Greensboro, colina de la capilla, Asheville... él o ella no necesita ser un extranjero en ciudad. Anuncie que usted está tomando el viaje, y arregle resolver los bloggers locales sobre el café o el té verde. Se está haciendo ya. En solamente un chorrito hasta ahora sin embargo.Entre los bloggers del Charlotte-a'rea que he recolectado, están hasta ahora los siguientes. Mientras que procedo, espero encontrar las áreas que necesitan convertirse, y después intento afectar el cambio hacia corregirlo, divulgando falta o éxito, como sucedo. Pienso que usted encontrará que hay una gama bastante amplia entre los bloggers siguientes, pero las sugerencias son más que la recepción.

Asso we esplora the futura of North Carolina, noi ai anonyMoses setaccerà con le idee dei bloggers regionali, con particolare rilievo sui bloggers di zona de Charlotte... con la logica che è tripla. In primo luogo, sono qui. Sono un blogger de Charlotte. Il secondo motivo che è che la collina del chapel e de Greensboro già ha a oltre, per quanto riguarda blogging ed il blogosphere... e certamente un presente dinamico. Charlotte, d'altra parte, è più futuro, di meno oltre. Ma per iscritto circa Charlotte che blogging e come si riferisce al futuro di North.carolina, sarà una gioia necessaria per consultare e riferirsi ai successi ed alle lezioni della collina del chapel e de Greensboro...Nel migliore dei casi, ogni bloggercon successivo porterebbe in avanti tutto che fosse imparato da ciascuno di quei precedenti, quindi la prova per migliorare su esso sensi del romanzo e nei buoni. Per esempio, desideriamo avere una miscela più giusta degli uomini e delle donne e una vasta gamma, socia-economico e razziale. La musica in tensione durante e dopo che il congresso stia discutendo e noi sperano che la scena ampia e meravigliosa de Charlotte di musica partecipi, sia con musica che blogs. La mia speranza è che la sera porterà un concerto libero che caratterizza i musicisti e gli artisti di zona, che eventualmente anche blog. Fra poco sarà il caso che una fascia dovrà semplicemente annunciare il loro concerto sul loro blog per imballare il posto. Già happeing, certamente.E quando un blogger piuttosto seasoned viaggia ad un altro ambiente blog-ricco, quale Greensboro, collina del chapel, Asheville... lui o lei non deve essere uno sconosciuto in città. Annunci che state prendendo il viaggio ed organizzi venire a contatto dei bloggers locali sopra caffè o tè verde. Già sta facendo. In ma un trickle finora comunque.Fra i bloggers che di Charlotte-zona ho riunito, finora, sono il seguenti. Mentre continuo, spero di trovare le zone che devono svilupparsi ed allora provo ad interessare il cambiamento verso correggerlo, segnalando il guasto o il successo, come accado. Penso che troviate che ci è una gamma ragionevolmente ampia fra i seguenti bloggers, ma i suggerimenti sono più del benvenuto.

As we erforscht the künftiges of North Carolina, wir an den anonyMoses erforschen, wird durch die Ideen der regionalen bloggers, mit bestimmtem Hauptgewicht auf Charlotte Bereich bloggers... mit der Logik sieben, die dreifach ist. Zuerst bin ich hier. Ich bin ein Charlotte blogger. Der zweite Grund, der ist, daß Greensboro und Kapelle-Hügel bereits a hinter, was das Blogging betrifft und das blogosphere... und zweifellos ein dynamisches Geschenk haben. Charlotte ist andererseits mehr Zukunft, kleiner hinter. Aber, beim Schreiben über blogging Charlotte und wie es auf der Zukunft von Nord-Carolina bezieht, ist es eine notwendige Freude, zum der Erfolge und auf der Lektionen Greensboro und Kapelle-des Hügels zu beraten und sich zu beziehen...nehmen Sie von ihm, Ideen und Inspiration weg.Ideal würde jedes folgende bloggercon alles, das von jedem von das Vorangehen erlernt wurde, dann Versuch vortragen, um nach ihm in den guten und Romanweisen zu verbessern. Z.B. möchten wir eine gerechtere Mischung der Männer und der Frauen und eine breitere Strecke haben, soziologisch-ökonomisch und rassisch. Phasenmusik während und nachdem die Konferenz besprochen wird und wir hoffen, daß Charlottes beträchtliche und erstaunliche Musikszene, mit Musik und blogs teilnimmt. Meine Hoffnung ist, daß der Abend ein freies Konzert holt, das Bereich Musiker und Künstler kennzeichnet, die hoffnungsvoll auch blog. Bevor lang es der Fall ist, daß ein Band nur ihr Konzert auf ihrem blog verkünden muß, um den Platz zu verpacken. Es happeing bereits, sicher.Und wenn ein ein wenig reifes blogger zu einem anderen blog-reichen Klima, wie Greensboro, Kapelle-Hügel reist, Asheville... brauchen er oder sie, nicht ein Fremder zu sein in der Stadt. Verkünden Sie, daß Sie die Reise nehmen, und ordnen Sie, die lokalen bloggers über Kaffee oder grünem Tee zu treffen. Sie wird bereits getan. In aber ein Trickle bis jetzt zwar.Unter den Charlotte-Bereich bloggers, die ich erfaßt habe ist bis jetzt die folgenden. Während ich fortfahre, hoffe ich, Bereiche zu finden, die sich entwickeln müssen, und versuche dann, Änderung in Richtung zum Beheben sie zu beeinflussen und berichte Ausfall oder über Erfolg, wie, geschehe. Ich denke, daß Sie finden, daß es ein ziemlich breites Spektrum unter den folgenden bloggers gibt, aber Vorschläge sind mehr als Willkommen.

Aangezien wij de toekomst van Noord-Carolina onderzoeken, zullen wij bij anonyMoses door de ideeën van regionale bloggers ziften, met bijzondere nadruk op het gebiedsbloggers van Charlotte... met de logica die drievoudig is. Eerst, hier ben ik. Ik ben Charlotte blogger. De tweede reden dat die de Heuvel van Greensboro en Chapel reeds een verleden, betreffende het blogging en blogosphere... en zeker een dynamisch heden heeft is. Charlotte, enerzijds, is meer toekomst, minder voorbij. Maar schriftelijk zal het schrijven over het blogging van Charlotte, en hoe het op de toekomst van Noord-Carolina betrekking heeft, het een noodzakelijke vreugde om naar de successen en de lessen van de Heuvel van Greensboro zijn te raadplegen en te verwijzen en Chapel...Ideaal gezien, zou elk die bloggercon naar voren alles slaagt brengen wat van elk van de voorafgaande werd geleerd, dan poging op het op goede en nieuwe manieren te verbeteren. Bijvoorbeeld, willen wij een billijkere mengeling van mannen en vrouwen, en een bredere waaier hebben, socio-economically en raciaal. Leef muziek tijdens en na de conferentie wordt besproken, en wij hopen dat de enorme en wonderbaarlijke de muziekscène van Charlotte, zowel met muziek en blogs zal deelnemen. Mijn hoop is dat de avond een vrij overleg brengen zal dat gebiedsmusici en kunstenaars kenmerkt, die hopelijk ook blog. Vóór lang zal het het geval zijn dat een band enkel hun overleg op hun blog zal moeten aankondigen om de plaats in te pakken. Het happeing reeds, zeker.En wanneer enigszins gekruid blogger naar een ander blog-rijk milieu, zoals Greensboro, Chapel Heuvel reist, Asheville... is hij of zij needn't een vreemdeling in stad. Kondig aan dat u de reis neemt, en schik om lokale bloggers over koffie of groene thee te ontmoeten. Het wordt reeds gedaan. In maar een druppeltje tot hiertoe niettemin.Onder Charlotte-Gebied bloggers die ik zijn volgend me, tot hiertoe, heb verzameld. Aangezien ik te werk ga, hoop ik om gebieden te vinden die het ontwikkelen vergen zich, en probeer dan om verandering naar het verbeteren van het te beïnvloeden, het melden van mislukking of succes, zoals gebeurt. Ik denk u zult vinden dat er een vrij breed spectrum onder volgende bloggers is, maar de suggesties zijn meer dan welkom. Oi.

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US Military shooting at journalists again...

U.S. Fires on Car Carrying Freed Hostage


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American forces fired on a car carrying a freed Italian hostage as it approached a checkpoint in Baghdad on Friday, killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding three others, including the just-released journalist, Italian officials said.

YOU ARE BEING FRAMED

Create a poll. Ask questions like:

Clean Air. For or Against?
FOR
AGAINST

Clean Water. For or Against?
FOR
AGAINST

Choices. For or Against?
FOR
AGAINST

When framed in this way, which is clear and straightforward...most people would proclaim that they are for clean air, for clean water, for choices, and so on. And so those whose livelihoods include dirtying up the water and air, or taking away people's choices...frame the question differently.

Industry regulations. For or Against.
FOR
AGAINST

So suddenly the issue is not clean air, rather it is regulations.
But polluters are catching on. And so with one hand they take away the restrictions on polluting, and with the other, call it something that sounds appealing to the "clear" (literally) majority, by calling it something that sounds warm and fuzzy, like "Clear Skies", "Healthy Forests", "No Child Lying Liars"...no wait, I think it was "No Child LEFT BEHIND". A take off on "Kiss My Left Behind", no doubt...

The whole idea of "compassionate conservatism" is, Lakoff writes, an Orwellian construct masking the true intent of the policies. The key craftsman of this strategy is "the right's language man, Frank Luntz," who notes that conservatives can gain the upper hand--even when science is against them--by using language strategically. "People who support environmentalist positions like certain words," Lakoff writes in Elephant. "They like the words healthy, clean and safe because these words fit frames that describe what the environment means to them. Therefore, Luntz says, use the words healthy, clean and safe whenever possible, even when talking about coal plants or nuclear power plants.

I was turned on to George Lakoff in the mid-80s, when my Semantics teacher put "Metaphors We Live By" on the reading list. It was tremendous then, and remains so. A smallish book, I would highly recommend it to those interested in language, metaphors, politics or Lakoff.

Anyway, you needn't remain framed.
Here are some keys to the escape hatch:

Lakoff and Framing in the News

Clear Skies, Healthy Forests: Why Language Matters
E/The Environmental Magazine, CT - Mar 3, 2005

Recommended Reading for Liberals
Political Gateway, FL - Mar 1, 2005

Thinking of Jackasses
Atlantic Online - Mar 1, 2005

Tribe looks forward to the past
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Feb 26, 2005

Dean, Lakoff, and the Elephant.
BlueOregon, OR - Feb 24, 2005

Don't think of framing this
Lincoln Journal, MA - Feb 23, 2005

War of words over Social Security
The Green Bay News-Chronicle, WI - Feb 15, 2005

How Progressives Can Start Winning Again By Renaming Their Opponents and Reframing The Debate
Common Dreams - Feb 9, 2005

don't think of an elephant! (review)
Blogcritics.org - Feb 5, 2005

National ID Card, Passport to Police State?

I read this thought-provoking piece at the blog of one of the pioneers of community blogging, Jay Ovittore:

This past week, the House of Representatives passed bill HR 418, the bill that introduces the Real ID Act (National ID card). I see this move as a passport to a police state. A few tidbits on the National ID card:
1)States have the option to opt out, but that means they would not receive grants from the government for their DMV and licensing divisions.
2)If you do not get a National ID card, you can not enter any federally owned building, board an airplane,etc... you get the point.
3)This is the scary part, there has been discussion about a homing chip (RFID chip, Radio Frequency ID Chip) to track where you are as well as what you buy, etc... The implement of Biometric Info such as retina scans and DNA info. Big Brother not only watching but recording into a database who you are, what you do, etc...

Click here for the full monty...

Meet Charlotte Democrats

Pizza is Fuel



The Age of Exuberance. Part Two
Please introduce yourselves. I told them tonight of the upcoming bloggercon, and they thought: "Who are you?" A great bunch of folks, but not yet blogging, sadly.

In an effort to gather a healthy group of bloggers for the upcoming Bloggercon, I find myself hurling myself into conversations, and blurting out all manner of alien noises which sounds a lot like "bbblog", or something similar. Frog maybe. But visions create their own energy. And when this energy is multiplied among resonant others, the only word to describe such a state is exuberance. The first Age of Exuberance had its visions, then its realities. And now at the inflection of the Second Age of Exuberance...the synergy is palpable. The possibilities our new frontier.

It is not for one political side or party or team though, but should include all views, all peoples.
Spread the word wherever you can. Either that, or just accept what those who are left behind to work the old machinery try to sustain a way-way monologue.

I tend to vote Democratic, but would never want to cut off voices I may not agree with.
As long as people are civil, many of the former walls that separated people can come down.
Blogs may be a way to "tear down that wall". Not necessary compromise one's principles or standards, but rather instead to learn that no one is the monsters some would like to portray.

And indeed...would-be enemies, such as bloggers and newpaperpeople, at the previous bloggercons, shared information, and friendships and partnerships were formed. The community benefited and grew...as the world watched and many cheered.

And just when you thought Information was being swallowed up, and disposed, by global conglomerates, the Information squeaks through the cracks of this blog then that, and is free.

Join in the great dialogue.
Be a part of history.
Become a blogger. Because.
No matter where you go, there you are.
And it's better to be a live dog than a dead lion.
:)

Harvard Presidents Throughout History

Harvard Gazette

I had the good fortune of taking a class given by the wondrous Peter Gomes on the history of Harvard, which turned out to be also a history of universities, and many were the delightful boluses of pregnant information as Learning marched forever onward. Well, I say "forever". I really mean "in fits and starts".

The first president of Harvard, was a bit of a kook, and had no idea what his institution would become. His wife served the boys a stew made of things better served flushed, and he was chased out of the country and hunted like a dog. Little did he know that he would be the first head of what would become the first corporation in the western hemisphere, and the first college or university to boldly say they had the right to confer degrees, thus paving the way for every other college and university in America, when, in 1693, President Mather said: 'The General Court of Massachusetts, the Governor, Council, and people of New England have named and established Harvard College as a University (academia), with authority to confer degrees, in the manner of the English Universities.'

There have been many presidents since Dunster, most a good deal better. Hard not to be, really, unless your name is LARRY SUMMERS. (Just kidding!) I just think it is a style issue, but I will get to that in a minute.

Things seemed to pick up a bit when President Eliot took the reins...he and his wall of books. He, who was more popular than the President of the United States. He who determined to lure the best minds in the world to Cambridge, and thus make Harvard a national treasure.


President Rudenstine

Book learning alone might be got by lectures and reading; but it was only by studying and disputing, eating and drinking, playing and praying as members of the same collegiate community, in close and constant association with each other and with their tutors, that the priceless gift of character could be imparted.
—Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College

Then came Lowell, who widened and enclosed the institution, by making it more of a university, AND more of a college. He also opened the doors to common folk.
His vision of creating colleges, or Houses in the English model, where students could live together, guided by wise mentors, and work on developing their character as well as their minds was not lost on the presidents, who seemed to embody a gentle style of tolerant, genuine curiosity -- a style which invites discussion in a way that pain nor shock would seem appropriate. And yet that tradition may be on pause, while President Summers re-reads his histories.

Surely it is not because he is an MIT man, rather than the typical Harvard, Princeton or Oxford man, occupying the post. Surely it is not some stunt, like the huge MIT banner rising from the Harvard-Yale game.

Go back, and read the lives of Eliot, Lowell, Bok, Rudenstine, but also read Dunster.
There is a pattern, an evolution, an evolving style. And arrogance is a disease, not something you wear like a stole.

You are a smart man. But we are more than heads. We are also more than Math and Science, even if MIT may have led you to believe otherwise.

Why are not more men in chorus? If everyone sang there would be a chance of peace. A window. And where is all this Math and Science taking us? Better bombs? Better chemical weapons? Advanced forms of Death?

Considering so much of what it goes toward, I don't see why more people don't simply walk away from it. No need to say that some haven't the aptitude, when the attitude become the problem. I am reminded of the "Gays in the Military" "issue". Why would gays, or anyone, want to go into the military in the first place? I thought the idea was to "ride the right horse", and if one takes you where you don't want to go, then refuses to bring you back...what kind of horse is that?

And so it comes down to horses. Don't be a horse's arse.

End of transmission.

[Correction: Nathaniel Eaton was the first president, but Dunster was the first in a continuous line. The "Lost Colony" of Harvard Presidents. And it was he whose wife served up the poop, and was run out of the country. He wound up dying in debtor prison. Dunster was only run out of the colony of Massachusetts. Can't believe I forgot that after only 20 years! ]

Arvin Hill: Investigate Propagandagate

Arvin Hill: Investigate Propagandagate

Lessons from Bush Honeymoon, Part Two

In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement

The New York Times > Sally Greene > Ed Cone.


Aliens LOVE a beautiful infrastructure!

Meet ZeFrank...

Watch his video clips... Fun to be had.

White House press corps flap is far from over

via The Charlotte Observer

White House press corps flap is far from over
excerpt:

The White House correspondent formerly known as Gannon has quit his job and acknowledged his real name, which is Guckert.

And his employer, a conservative Web site operated by Texas Republican activists, having already erased all traces of "Gannon," announced Thursday that it was unplugging its Web site to "reevaluate operations."

But the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert saga is far from over. It remains unclear how a graduate of a conservative training program, someone with no previous journalism experience, someone whose writings were often lifted directly from White House press releases, still managed to gain access to the White House press room, where he spent two years lobbing gentle questions at the press secretary and the President.

etta lea: Charlotte's Musical Goddess

Lea of Ishi will be opening for the equally great Anais Mitchell on March 26th at the Evening Muse. You must not miss this. Carpool from Greensboro and Chapel Hill if you can, or up from Charleston.

There is excitement in the air!

The American Street - Blogblocks & Groupblog Synergy

More on the social evolution of blogs, by anonyMoses

Inside The 'Gannon' Case: How Blogs Broke It Wide Open

Inside The 'Gannon' Case: How Blogs Broke It Wide Open

Inside The 'Gannon' Case: How Blogs Broke It Wide Open
For the first time last month, I was able to follow a 'blog probe' from the start, and it was amazing to see the resources and skills the larger sites can bring to bear on a single issue or controversy.

In Defense of Citizen Journalism

In Defense of Citizen Journalism

In Defense of Citizen Journalism
The citizen-journalism movement is where journalism is heading. Newspapers, if they want to stay in the game, need to acknowledge the 'lecture' model of journalism is dying, and join in the 'conversation.'

By Steve Outing "

hipteacher: Re: Student Blogging

hipteacher: Re: Student Blogging

Blogs as teaching tools, via Coturnix

The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, has a blog that's loaded with features

such as podcasting and tags. Not bad for old media.
- Thoughtsignals by Mark Tosczak

Biography of the Presiding Bishop

XXV Presiding Bishop The Episcopal Church, USA, Frank Griswold

The Presiding Bishop was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. and earned an A.B. in English literature at Harvard College (1959). He attended the General Theological Seminary and earned his B.A. and M.A. in theology at Oriel College, Oxford University (1962, 1966). He has received honorary degrees from the General Theological Seminary, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Nashotah House, Sewanee and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.

UNC Charlotte - J. Murrey Atkins Library - Blogs

"Blogs are the place to go if you really want to learn what is going on in the world."

College of Information Technology - UNC-Charlotte

New COIT

Queens University of Charlotte now featuring Men with Runic Ears

(Note the center rune.)

Queens University of Charlotte, where a collection of men can spell a word.

It wasn't that long ago that Charlotte's Queens University was just Queens College -- an uppity college for bright Southern Presbyterian belles, resembling Andover though a few Kennedys shy.

But look at it now! Well, it still looks like Andover, but deep down we all know it is a University, and that there are now crawling through the halls...men. And boys. Males who have runeshaped ears, and men with ears with a more Sanskritish curvilinearity, although not dropped from a line like so much laundry.

Sample Charlotte's Tweak & Beat

Tweak & Beat

Small Spaces
Yui walked quietly down the graffitied street. Thoughts floated away like the distant music falling from an above apartment window.

'Sounds familiar' she thought walking closer to the place where Haki would be waiting.

It was a nice little neighborhood, wireless, connected to the world in a most natural and unique way.

"Have a take, and don't suck": Behold Charlotte's Cheerful Malcontent

Suburban Assault Vehicles (with a special acidic distaste for Hummers).

The Future of the Carolina Blogosphere: Charlotte Edition

How and Why Blogs will Change the Future

As we explore the future of North Carolina, we at anonyMoses will be sifting through the ideas of regional bloggers, with particular emphasis on Charlotte area bloggers...with the logic being three-fold. First, I am here. I am a Charlotte blogger. The second reason being that Greensboro and Chapel Hill already have a past, as regards blogging and the blogosphere...and certainly a dynamic present. Charlotte, on the other hand, is more future, less past. But in writing about Charlotte blogging, and how it relates to the future of North Carolina, it will be a necessary joy to consult and refer to the successes and lessons of Greensboro and Chapel Hill. The third reason is that I want to add to the discussion taking place at the Tarheel Tavern, where North Carolina is the main topic, as well as take away from it, both ideas and inspiration.

Ideally, each succeeding bloggercon would bring forward all that was learned from each of the preceding ones, then try to improve upon it in good and novel ways. For example, we want to have a more equitable mix of men and women, and a wider range, socio-economically and racially. Live music during and after the conference is being discussed, and we hope that Charlotte's vast and wondrous music scene will participate, both with music and blogs. My hope is that the evening will bring a free concert featuring area musicians and artists, who hoefully also blog. Before long it will be the case that a band will just have to announce their concert on their blog in order to pack the place. It is already happeing, surely.

And when a somewhat seasoned blogger travels to another blog-rich environment, such as Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Asheville...he or she needn't be a stranger in town. Announce that you're taking the trip, and arrange to meet the local bloggers over coffee or green tea. It is already being done. In but a trickle as yet though.

Among the Charlotte-area bloggers I have gathered, as yet, are the following. As I proceed, I hope to find areas that need developing, and then try to affect change toward correcting it, reporting failure or success, as happens. I think you will find that there is a fairly wide spectrum among the following bloggers, but suggestions are more than welcome.

a100wwe's blog of news, politics, and sci/tech
Ace Pryhill
Affecting Frank
After Hours w/ Jason Workman
Aku-Rei*
Ana Kova*
Anna Banana
AnnieFromTheBlock
anonyMoses
An Un-Educated Perspective on the World (Howard W. Stall)
Banter, Bitching & Moaning
Begging To Differ
Beth Cherry
BlackHoleIraq
Brady Gaster (TatoChip)
Cada dia, cada vez...
Carolina Panther Page
Charlotte Weblogger Meetup Group
Cheerful Malcontent
Cold Fury
Collection of Thoughts, A
Cozmic Blonde
DaveTemple.com
Dione Rochell*
Don't cry for me, pas de calais (Skyfi)
DrainMyBrain.com
Eruanne Grace*
Frocky (Doombilly)
From the Ashes (Meishi Namida)
gabuyafa*
Garrick Wells
Gene G. McLaughlin*
Greg Burnett web log
GrinsNLaughter
Guyana Gyurl
History of Time Travel
Hitched to Everything
Hugh R. F. Campbell
HyperLincoln
Inside These Walls
Jamzoo
Ken Webster
Legend of the Slashfiend
Liberals Lie (Brian Simms)
mitch*weblog
Mocklive
Monkey Chatterings
More than Expression (Jennifer Medlock)
Caleida (My Lenore)*
Natural Mystic's Random Musings
NerdiiBlackBoy
North Cacalacky Politics
North Carolina Experiment, The
nsikora*
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Herald.com | 02/21/2005 | Murder by media: The Dean Scream

Herald.com | 02/21/2005 | Murder by media: The Dean Scream

The Eyes Have It

Hubble Opens Its Eyes ...and our eyes as well.


As above, so below...

"After a two-month hiatus, it is a tremendous boost to all of astronomy to see Hubble back in action," said Steven Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Hubble science operations center in Baltimore, Md.

O to be a Carolinian!

Longings for Home. Whitman, Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

anonyMoses circa 1995

While posting a comment to Sally Greene, I was reminded of a quote by Buckminster Fuller, and that I had posted that quote in the past. It turned out to be 10 years ago, on a strange page I concocted called "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature" and also "Important Things to Know, Part One" and "Part Two". The page does some fun things that were fairly cool in the olden days of the Internets.
Just thought I'd share.

The quote was:

"The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity."
- R. Buckminster Fuller


There are also some excellent quote by Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Schopenhauer, Emma Goldman, Baudelaire, as well as perhaps the only place you'll find the word, "boogerfinger".

Among the fun quotes are the following. Can you guess who said them?

Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

It is precisely minds of the first order that will never be specialists. For their nature is to make the whole of existence their problem. . . .

All the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability . . . and tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all-powerful generalizing principles.

The reader should study, if he can, the real authors, the men who have founded and discovered things; or, at any rate, those who are recognized as the great masters in every branch of knowledge.Let him buy second-hand books rather than read their contents in new ones.-

If a thing is new, it is seldom good; because if it is good, it is only for a short time new.

A man should read only when his own thoughts stagnate at their source.

Great, genuine and extraordinary work can be done only in so far as its author disregards the method, the thoughts, the opinions of his contemporaries, and quietly works on, in spite of their criticism, on his side despising what they praise.

His [the genius'] mind will have no further aim than to be constantly active. This will be an inexhausible spring of delight; and boredom, that spectre which haunts the ordinary man, can never come near him.

But there is an understanding among them. An abiding trust. A life of eternal care. And all because they relate, cooperate, synergize as a whole, reaching beyond the physical perimeter of monkey members and into the world. A fragrance of flowers wafts down a mountainside and brings renewed life to wary breathtakers.

To achieve advanced tones of voice, be it inner or outer, one must speak from the diaphragm, use rounded vowel sounds, have a preponderance of well-resonated vowel sounds, articulate the prestigious consonants, sexualize the voice, aspirate with bedroom eyes, so to speak, and use poetic diction.

Where have you been?

via Littlebear Holler
bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...

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Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.

The Tar Heel Tavern opens at midnight February 26th

The Tar Heel Tavern

From the host:
"I will host the first inaugural edition on my blog, Science and Politics, around midnight February 26th 2005. I believe that the inaugural issue should be special, as everyone is getting intoduced to everyone else. The first issue needs to come in with a big splash, it needs to be big and good. Thus, for the very first issue, we will bend the rules a little bit. First, you may submit not one, but two entries. Second, your entries can be as old as you wish, as long as they are posted on your current blog. Show off your best writing ever!"

New Strategies for Southern Progress -- February 2005

More fun in Chapel Hill today...

Was Gannon Bush's Monica?

WorldNetDaily: Sex to go: Call White House press office

World Largest Collection of Slowheaded, Hateful Paraphernalia: Exhibit A

Right-Wing Stuff

Want to know if you are a Rightwinger? See if you can identify with these ungrammatical, hateful, pollutive, wasteful, imprudent, and backward products. It pretty well sums it up, and it's not a pretty picture.

Take, for example, the first item. It says:

"TAKE THAT HIPPY - FOUR MORE YEARS!"



How can six words have four errors, you ask?

These are the standards, or lack thereof, of these folks.

But beyond grammar, look at the sentiment.
!. Lashing out.
2. Enjoyment of inflicting pain.
3. Hatred of fellow Americans.
4. Hatred of Peace-lovers, such as was Jesus.
5. Hatred of Non-conformists.
6. Hatred.

And this is just the first one!

Or parse this jewel:



Even on drugs, Rush is right? Well, no, it doesn't say "right", it says, correctly, "Right". No doubt about that. He is Right. He is just rarely right. But how convenient that they sound exactly the same. But then to try to imply that even when he is f*ucked up he makes sense? So NOW it is okay to do drugs, since Rush lead the way!

And then there is that middle part which pays homage to the NRA and the Eric Rudolphs. The ad, which is what it is, ends by licking the arse of Oil and overpriced, overvalued vehicular overstatement devices, commonly known as SUVs.
But then there is the parading of the fact that they are among the top consumers in the world. The danger in watching TV is that you are forever coerced into believing you need to give them your 50 thousand dollars.

Hey! It's YOUR money! Not theirs! Don't let them trick you into thinking like they do, for it would not, in most cases, qualify as a step up the brain chain.

The others are too repugnant to display or even talk about.

Sufficient evidence that these folks are not hip. I'm glad I'm not one of their suckers.

LINK

ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers

via Slashdot

Phil Shapiro writes "American Library Association president Michael Gorman is not too fond of bloggers and blogging. '[The] Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'"

It is not Luntz. It is the Enrons that hire him...

Daily Kos

Frank Luntz is the reason I yanked the cable from my house, and haven't paid Time Warner a penny since. You hear that Time-Warner? You hear that MSNBC?

During the vote count in 2000, MSNBC hired Enron's Frank Luntz to hold town meetings to "gauge" public opinion. Yeah, right! Gauge! You mean sway, don't you?

And sway he did!

He had "Florida Democrats" saying that Gore should just "move on" and "drop it". It's called begging the question. It's called partisanship posing as impartiality. It's called BushWorld.

Want to learn subtle ways to lie? Listen to Frank Luntz. Enron did.

He is just another Gannon. Someone to whom the MSM turn a blind eye.

Words of the Year 2004

From the keen eye of The Real Paul Jones

Santorum!

The trenchant and interesting Chapel Hill Meetup

as transcribed by the masterful quill of Sir Anton Zuiker, Blogmeister extraordinaire.

An evolving community of good and smart hominids.

Speaking of the Greensboro Film Festival...

CNN.com - North Carolina: Fans connect with film sites

Films and movies have been good for North Carolina, and North Carolina has been good in return.
Show your appreciation for the magic of the cinema by celebrating in the green city, Greensboro...which, as John Cleese (rhymes with cheese) reminds, should be pronounced "greensburra", like "Edinburgh". Confusing isn't it? What with those teeth. I should talk!

You yes. Neglect what I say at your peril, as I am fond of overspeak, yet exuberating at the pleasures that spill from my ladle.

Now CNN, we see, forgot a nugget or two, one of which contained the fearful mug of yours truly, and no it wasn't Gone with the Wind. It was Gone with that Wind, what one might call a me-too movie. But alas, I am in jesture, as the correct answer would have to be a little known film called Black Rainbow -- a film, well, a movie starring Jason Robards, Jane Wyman, Tom Hulse and Patricia (or was it Roseanne?) Arquette, and which was filmed in Charlotte, just months before it went nowhere.

I played a person in the audience, all of whom stampede for the door after a gunfight breaks out while Arquette is being psychic on stage. I'm the fellow in the long black cashmere overcoat and white scarf sitting beside a young lady who looks not entirely unlike Katie Couric, had Katie darker hair.

My second gig as "extra" was in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the grounds of a lovely private school, where Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Lou Gossett Jr., and a few others gathered to create Toy Soldiers -- another movie famous for lacking quotation marks.
There I played a teacher who, yes, you guessed it, was in a room when gunfire broke out. (Gotta love that gun lobby!) This time it was an auditorium. It was while shooting Toy Soldiers that I met a couple whom I adore, named Jonathan and Alexandra, he from Oxford, she from Washington and Lee, and both among the most gentle, tender souls I have had the good fortune to meet. Jon and I were teachers at an elite boy's school, in the movie, and we got paid to throw frisbee with Sean Astin, who unlike the others, was a real human being, who, in addition, felt no need to separate himself from the locals, who he probably recognized were not exactly Jethroes. (Oh God I'm having a Dan Quayle moment!)

So anyway...during the shooting, I suggested to the director, Daniel somethingoranother -- who also directed Big Easy, and is a son of a director with the same name -- that "do you think teachers would just sit here if one of our students takes a riflebutt to the stomach?" So he agreed that it would be better to have some reaction.
Sadly...the plan was to be that Jon would react, but I, having noted the terrorist at his back with a rifle, would reach over with my head and, pointing behind him, tell him to desist. The sad part is that it looked like I kissed him. Not that I don't adore him, which I do. In a manly, art-cowboy way though. Klymt Eastwood maybe.

Enough of that.

Go to the movies.

Play "Rewrite the Headline"

The previous post is an example of playing "Rewrite the Headline", which I just made up, but for a purpose. By a large margin, most people only read the headlines, and never delve into the body, unless they are drawn in by the headline. And yet the headline can also be deceptive and leading. It is a form of framing. As such, every headline should be reconsidered after reading the body, and maybe rewritten, if only in the mind.

But why make it work? Make it play! As God once said: "Work is alright, but play is more valuable."

It's Romney vs Edwards in '08

The Prettyboy Wars

A Massachusetts Republican against a North Carolina Democrat. Either would be light years ahead of the current fumblesmith.

2004 Koufax Award Winners

Wampum: 2004 Koufax Award Winners

Jobs Market Online

Triad Jobs Market

Q. What starts with R, ends in S, and has 10 letters?

Yahoo! News - Bush Says Talk of Attacking Iran 'Ridiculous'

A.
RIDICULOUS
and
READMYLIPS

Fun with Random Activities

Corpus Callosum who found it at Screwy Hooligans from the great Asheville, North Carolina.

1.Grab the nearest book.
2.Open the book to page 123.
3.Find the fifth sentence.
4.Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5.Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.


...language itself, on the one hand, originated in "infantile, pregenitcal exuberance, polymorphously perverse" and that conscious attention, on the other, was a "libidinal hypercathexis".
-John Barth, "Chimera" (quoted in The Oxter English Dictionary) (I better take better care of the it, as it goes for over a hundred bucks now. I figured it would have value...)

New Voices: Blogger Corps Delivers Greensboro101

New Voices: Blogger Corps Delivers Greensboro101

Hoggard gets his wish

BloggingPoet.com - Go Greensboro Bloggers!
Billy on David on Greensboro and the World...

Blogs: "bringing information you can't get in print right to your door"

Welcome to the Digital Edge

Through the keen eye of Southern Rants, we find a neoblogger from Brooklyn who discovered all the keys to the blogosphere in the flash of a day. His account is fascinating, and illustrates the importance and potential of blogging...

Excerpt:
I spent 15 minutes setting up a 90-day trial Weblog account, then devoted the next few days to developing the site. I blogged a mugging half a block from my apartment, and uploaded a video still of my kid playing at the corner playground (is that renovation project still out to bid?). I found some interesting neighborhood people to profile, including a cartoonist, a columnist for The Onion, a gourmet pickle entrepreneur and some “post-punk” vegetarian cooks who produce a public-access TV show out of their apartment.

Within 24 hours, my neighbor Frank Lynch had already found and blogged about my site: “Why wait for your precinct sergeant to set up a blotter?” he wrote. “It's time for a shout out to our neighborhood blog … If you think about it, this is the potential of the Internet: bringing information you can't get in print right to your door.”

Whoa. Was he reading my mind?

Frank’s comment evoked the opportunity - and challenge - that will confront traditional news publishers that want to tackle hyper-local media. Because it’s so already simple to publish and publicize, it will be difficult for newspapers to get behind this force already in motion, though some have made important strides in the right direction. Newspaper Web sites published by Advance.net, the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record and others are actively adding blogs and soliciting reader contributions.

You should read it for yourself, as there is much more, and it is wondrously and copiously hyperlinked.

Per request: The War Song of G. Dubya Bushrock

The War Song of G. Dubya Bushrock

Hunter and Gun

Hunter S. Thompson shoots self

For a country to have a great blogger...

On the rise of the Blogovernment

"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor writers."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Letter to Karl Marx from his Leipzig publisher

Writers get no respect...


Dear Herr Doctor,
You are already 10 months behind with the manuscript of Das Kapital, which you have agreed to write for us. If we do not receive the manuscript within 6 months, we shall be obliged to commission another to do this work.
- Letter to Karl Marx from his Leipzig publisher

(From The Paris Review and the late George Plimpton)

The Bush Tapes - Excerpts

"Sure I snort crack and shoot marywanna. How else are you gonna explain my naps?"

"I ain't gonna discriminate against no gayum or lesbiana. I just ain't gonna hire 'em!"

"Amazingistic!"

"I think there IS an 'e' on the end of potatoe."

"Ah! To be Warren Harding!"

"My favorite president? I'd have to say Franklin!"

"I voted for compassion...before I voted against it."

"We are going to spread feareedom"...

"Finders keepers, losers weepers."

This is an imaginary and fictitious guess at what is on the tape, which is soon to be destroyed by the Bush Library.

REAL LINKS to the story:

Buzzflash headlines

Secret tapes say Bush used pot, report says

E&P: Bush's tapes show he was hostile to the press from the get-go. Also: Did we mention it's sad when even Dan Quayle speaks disdainfully of your fitness for office?

NYT Bush tapes reveal that Shrub circa 1998 feared cocaine scandal, and said he refused to "kick gays." That's "kick," not "demagogue a proposed rewrite of the Constitution to strip them of rights."

Bush's high times: W. confessed on tape to smoking marijuana, which people in Texas are spending years in prison for

E&P: Bush's tapes show he was hostile to the press from the get-go. Also: Did we mention it's sad when even Dan Quayle speaks disdainfully of your fitness for office?

From the Buzzflash archives: Doug Wead, Bush tape leaker and religious liaison, invited Christian evangelicals to a 2001 prayer breakfast hosted by Washington Times owner who claims to be the Messiah

The Tar Heel Tavern Is A Go!

from Science And Politics

Google Search: "Blog it forward" Results 1 - 10 of about 16,200

Well, I guess I ain't gonna be inventing THAT one!

It has already happened. Blog it forward is already in motion. What form it is taking, I do not know. My own idea was pretty simple: You learn to blog? You teach three other people how to blog, and then get them to teach three people...on down the line. I am currently teaching two people, one of whom has agreed to teach three, and the other will probably do so as well.

The Charlotte Observer has been running a series on "Pay it forward" and so the concept is quite familiar here. "Blog it forward" should also be a fairly easy grasp.

Already, North Carolina is in the vanguard of blogging. To exponentiate matters...blog it forward.

Musical modes

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Includes:
1 History
2 Church modes
2.1 Use of the modes
2.2 Interpretation of the modes
3 Modern modes
3.1 The major and minor modes
3.1.1 Major modes
3.1.2 Minor modes
3.2 Mode characteristics
3.3 Learning the modes
4 Other possible uses
5 References
6 Further reading

How To Make Money With Your Blog Site

How To Make Money With Your Blog Site - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

Thanks to Roch Smith Jr. for the link. My friend, Tom Priest was asking me this just today. Here is a place to start.

Q. Who was Degory Priest?

The Rebirth of Discourse: New blogger discovers..."Bloggers are Good People"

from The Philoblogger

"...it is great to witness the rebirth of discourse."

also:
MIT for Everyone
"Think, Wait, and Fast,"... Not in America
Thus Spake Siddhartha
and more...

Triangle Blogwall

Updated February 24, 2005
Starring some of the following: ae Lex Alexander John Joseph Bachir Clifton Barnes David K. Beckwith BigWig Jean Bolduc Leslie Boyle Badi E. Bradley Michael Bradley W Jeff Brown Terri Buckner Steve Burnett Craig Caskie Hugh Cayless Janet Chui Ken Coar/Rodent of Unusual Size Rafe Colburn Dan Coleman Roger Coleman Gore Ed Cone Henry Copeland Phebe Cornell Jon Cornetto Jay Cuthrell Debra Martin Davidsson Bret Dougherty Patrick Eakes Ryan Early George Entenman Lyle Estill John Ettorre Herb Everett Susan Eversole David Feld Fred Fenimore Jackson Fox Stephen Fraser Regi Frei Adam Geller (media) Jeff Giddens Dan Gillmor Bernard Glassman Mike Graves Sally Greene Mathew Gross Terry Grunwald Eric Guess Judy Hallman Susan Hardy Colin Hicks Andy Hill David Hoggard John Hood B. Adam Howell Henry Hutton Ben Hwang Virginia Ingram Ryan Irelan Brad Jasper Dave Johnson Jeannette Johnson Paul Jones Tara Kachgal Keith King Tim King Derek Lane Robert Littlejohn Bruce Loebrich Andrew Lomax Robert Lomax Maximilian Longley Jason Erik Lundberg Ben MacNeill Karen A. Mann Dee Marley David Matusiak Phil Melton Jerry McClough Lance McCord Will Mitchell David Moffat Susie Moffat Fiona Morgan Jason Morningstar Eric Muller Mary Nations Uzoma Nwosu Jen O’Bryan Michael O’Connell Jayson Ovittore Scott Parkerson Tony Patterson Jane Peppler Anthony Perry H.L. Person Alvin Phillips Stewart Pittman Sue Polinsky Jeffrey Pomerantz Jim Posner Robert Reddick Corey Reece Cathy Resmer James E. Robinson, III John Robinson Lance Robinson Tim Ross Sam Ruby Brian Russell Jack Saunders Mark Schreiner Willi Schulz Laura Seel Steve Segedy Ruby Sinreich Roch Smith, Jr. Steve Smith Terry Smith Pam Spaulding Kristina Spurgin Josh Staiger Christian Stalberg Fred Stutzman Chip Sudderth TheShu Mark Tosczak jw Ken Waight Nathan Walls David Warlick Justin Watt Mark Welker Todd Wilkens Alex Wilson Dave Winer Andy Wismar Dan Wurzelmann Rob Zelt Evan Zimmerman Tom Zito Bora Zivkovic AND/OR Anton Zuiker.

Jack Saunders' Amazing MorphoBlog

What's a driver to do?

Please welcome Jack (my "driver") to the Internets and the blogosphere, as he can be as shy as the day is medium-sized.
Jack (or Le Petit Jacques, as his butler calls him) will be covering Lord Only Knows What, and I'm sure he will do a splendid job of it, or I will have to throw rocks at him.

And please, oh Lord, may Jack learn how to put comments on his page by going into the setup mode, and Sitemeter, and XML/RSS, and all the lovely things the good earth hath provided, as they maketh blogging into a holier experience than might have been had without the inclusion of said accessories. And teach Jack that he may change the color of that bar at the the top of his blog to, say, silver, in order that it may blend more with the rest of his blog, and that he may affect such change by going into the template section of blogger, as he is editing, for this will be as manna to the massive throngs awaiting his blogospheric ascent into bloggerativille.

And may it be known to his fellow neoblogger, ThePhiloblogger, that other than being interested in time travel, he is also famously fond of Hermann Hesse, and that he would like to hear ThePhilobloggers ideas concerning Siddhartha and its relationship to Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Aristotle, as it has leaked out that these were points brought out during a recent discussion of said Sid with your beloved narrator.

Davide and Goliatech

Pushers and the Media who defend them: More on Chris Pittman from The Charlotte Capitalist

We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!

Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.

When the Nazis had seized control of the media, and masked their evil underbelly, there were a few brave men and women who defied the kkkoolade and blogged by way of pamphlets which were distributed surresptitiously among the people of Germany. It became known as the White Rose Society. In the spirit of the original, a new White Rose Society org has been created, upon which is a link to the original White Rose Society website. (Not their website, but one dedicated to it, with links, history, pics, etc.)

It is interesting to note that among the people quoted on the first leaflets is Taoism's award-winning Lao Tse, a world's most subtle man winner. I can hardly think of a better antonym to Hitler than Lao Tse, and I have long felt that if only the world would read and study his works, we, as inhabitants of the same earth, might actually learn how to get along with each other and the earth upon which we depend.

Will we ever hear Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or George W. Bush mention Lao Tse? Don't hold your breath.

Other than these websites, there is also a very good film called "The White Rose", which portrays quite well, I think, the story.

Some classic Lao Tse:

He who would assist a lord of men in harmony with the Tao will not assert his mastery in the kingdom by force of arms. Such a course is sure to meet with its proper return.

Wherever a host is stationed, briars and thorns spring up. In the sequence of great armies there are sure to be bad years.

A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops. He does not dare (by continuing his operations) to assert and complete his mastery. He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against being vain or boastful or arrogant in consequence of it. He strikes it as a matter of necessity; he strikes it, but not from a wish for mastery.

One Year Ago Today on anonyMoses

Thursday, February 19, 2004

links for that day include:

Republicans getting wise to Bush
My Way - News

Broadcast Giant, Bill Moyers, to leave PBS
My Way News

The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
Fill your coffers with political knowledge...

Alternative Viewpoints on the Internet--Listed by Subject

What has happened to the Project for the New American Century?
Right Web Organizations Project for the New American Century

Drudge: Liar of Last Resort (Daily Brew)
The Daily Brew:"I won’t bother with Matt Drudge’s foray into John Kerry’s sex life, except to say that that by now it should be obvious that Drudge’s true function in the GOP media ecosystem is as the liar of last resort. "

Did Bush pay for the abortion, or did he skip out without paying?
BartCop's most recent rants

The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003
Project Censored
Including these classics...#1: The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance #2: Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty #3: US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq U.N. Report #4: Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists #5: The Effort to Make Unions Disappear #6: Closing Access to Information Technology #7: Treaty Busting by the United States #8: US/British Forces Continue Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects #11: U.S. Implicated in Taliban Massacre #12: Bush Administration Behind Failed Military Coup in Venezuela #15: U.S. Military's War on the Earth #17: Clear Channel Monopoly Draws Criticism #18: Charter Forest Proposal Threatens Access to Public Lands #19: U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq #20: Pentagon Increases Private Military Contracts #24: Aid to Israel Fuels Repressive Occupation in Palestine #25: Convicted Corporations Receive Perks Instead of Punishment

Current Censored News
Project Censored
Current topics:- Washington Buys Friends by Giving Out Weapons to Rogue Nations- The U.S Government’s Tests of Warfare Agents on Servicemen and Civilians- International Movement Takes on Water Industry- US Rejected Peace Offerings from Iraq and Afghanistan- Public Relations and the Pharmaceutical Industry- How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.- Doping Kids- Indian Rice Feeds Cattle and not Starving Indians- Sex Discrimination in Florida - Corporations Privatize Freedom of Speech - Pharmaceutical Companies Spend More on PR than on Disease - Do Childhood Vaccines Cause More Harm than Good?

LiP Magazine Home Page
A not-for-profit electronic (and soon to be print) media project, Lip is dedicated to building a sustainable society that values diversity. "We question public and private policy that confuses consumption with freedom and ignores the human costs of rote and mind-numbing work and pursues the destruction of the natural environment." Lip is the proud porovider of "Media Dissidence & Uncivil Discourse Since 1996."

Global Issues That Affect Everyone
GlobalIssues.org
This web site looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related.Over 5000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis are used to provide credence to the arguments made on this web site. The issue categories range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics and the environment.

Can Liberal Talk Radio Last? (News) Erica Wetter
Currently, conservative talk averages at 310 hours of airtime a week, compared to a mere 5 hours for liberal talk, according to a report cited in an article from The New Republic Online.

What did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?
The New Yorker: CONTRACT SPORTby JANE MAYER
What did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?

Forbes.com: UPDATE 2-Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling surrenders to FBI

George Lakoff on the Metaphorical Structure of "Marriage"
TOMPAINE.com - Whose Family Values?
George Lakoff, the author of the seminal work on metaphor and it's rule over our lives, "Metaphors We Live By", takes on marriage, gay marriage, and its relation to politics for TomPaine.com. Further proof of the quality of Tom Paine...

Life as a Liberal - Life as a Conservative: The Board Games
Stumbled upon this while listening to the Keith Larson Show...

Who's Electable Now?:
"Who's Electable Now? When the history of the 2004 presidential race comes to be written, will the Democratic primary in Wisconsin be seen as a watershed -- the moment when, even in victory, John Kerry started to lose, and John Edwards, in defeat, started his slow, steady rise to the nomination and the White House? "

Americans killing Americans in Iraq: The Suicide Option
American soldiers in Iraq have found a way to protest what they detest: Suicide.

Bruce's Triangle Bloggers Conference 2005 link page

Loebrich.org

I am going to assume Bruce has a high-speed connection...

Meta-Carnivals the emerging importance of blog carnivals

Science And Politics: Meta-Carnival #1

The blogfuture just gets brighter all the time.

Fast with the Truth

BuzzFlash > Editorial > Wanted: An Investigative Reporter to Break Open the Explosive Story of a Mainstream Press that Betrays America

Politically Incorrect Guide to that Asshole, George W. Bush

a conundrum for ye conservatrons

Why is it that it is good to be politically incorrect regarding the Clintons, but it is strictly verboten when it comes to the buffoon at the top? Why does he deserve a permanent honeymoon? If Political Incorrectness is a good thing. Apply it with equanimity. It's the right thing to do.

If Political Incorrectness is a good thing, should not those in power be among those most deserving of Politically Incorrect "scrutiny"? When someone like Thomas Woods says piningly: "if only FDR were Harding..." (paraphrasing) -- one has to question.

Jesusina plagued with meganippolitis

Don't eat the crackers.

NIGHTLINE: Fear Monger Extraordinaire

What are they trying to prove?

Facets Multi-Media

Where to go for rare film, video, DVDs, & multimedia

Freedom Envy

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

via Dave Winer

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Register for the Blogging Teach-in and get thee to Greensboro on March 19th.

from EdCone.com

...this morning

Greensboro blogging teach-in, March 19, 10 AM, Nussbaum Center, register here. Site could use some details on who can come, what this is all about, etc.
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Jerry Brown is blogging in his capacity of mayor of Oakland. Big moment. Jay Rosen asked at BConIII, when are Senators going to start blogging. My guess was when they see it working, and that it will prove out in local politics. Brown is a big name, he'll help push this forward.
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Phil Shapiro has some interesting observations about community web networks and the Washington Post. He also says this: "A whirlwind has started in Greensboro that will spread across the nation."
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San Francisco, 1967. Greensboro, 2005? Anton has some ideas for a Summer of Blogs. Groovy.
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N&R NASCAR blog. This could be huge. Keys to success: regular posts, and info we can't get elsewhere.

Good stuff from the blogsmeister.

Medium Cool - And the search for the creative class

Art & Sculpture by dave k beckwith


From Creative Loafing, Charlotte we find that Charlotte is still find it's medium...cool.

M E D I U M C O O L
And the search for the creative class

BY DAVID WALTERS

Much hot air has been expended recently trying to decide if Charlotte's "cool" enough to attract the hip, young professionals who are touted to be the great wealth producers of the next generation.
This "creative class" (so named by economics professor Richard Florida) comprises the young "knowledge workers" in key sectors of the economy who set the pace of change in our digitally rich world. It's easy to lampoon Charlotte's eternal hunger for recognition, but there's a serious point at the heart of this debate.

Read on...

The Harvard Lampoon

The Harvard Lampoon

HELP US PARDON CHRISTOPHER PITTMAN!

Welcome to ICFDA

NC: The History and Future of Blog Communities

There is a revolution afoot, and bloggers are at the forefront. It has many components, one of them being building and growing community, communities. This past weekend, we in North Carolina, got another taste of blogging community as the Triangle Bloggercon bloomed in Chapel Hill, on the beautiful campus of the University of North Carolina — the first public university, and the model for every other one. Who knows…maybe the blog community in Triangle and Triad will serve as a model for others around the country and world.

If your town or city is not already coalescing their bloggers into groups and communities, you might want to take the lead and make it happen…because it will happen eventually, and you may as well be the one giving it direction.
There are plenty of people who will offer their help, and some are blogging their ideas on how to do it. Dave Winer being one of the more recognizable communitizers.

Below the fold are links to some of the people, activities and ideas wrought during the conference, as well as pithy commentary by your host today…ammoniaNoses. Something like that.

The rest of this work-in-progress can be found today at
American Street.

The Desire to Create

The Philoblogger *

...who asks:
What is it that drives a person to create? Where does the desire for originality, and beauty, arise from? Is it out of vanity or selfishness, or, is it out a deeper humanism?


*ThePhiloblogger, author of "On Paraconsistency: the Philosophical Utility Behind a Logic of Inconsistency", and "Foucault on Discourse and the Re-evaluation of Truths" was recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from UNC-Charlotte in Philosophy.

The Philoblogger was at Mardi Gras, and was unable to attend the Triangle Blogger Conference. It is my hope that he will give a brief speech on the philosophy of blogospheric octogony and its role in the paradevelopment of bicranial preferentiation (hominoidal), during the upcoming confluence of bloggerati, and gather his wily kindred for the meeting of souls, as they are of sublime substance and style, thus meshing well with what I have found in the two previous conclaves.

To create? Don't know if it's true, but it has been said that the greatest innovations of the 20th century were social innovations. Transportation systems, Internets, governments. And now, in the 21st century, we are seeing that yet another social system is fast becoming one of the major social innovations. And You Are There!

As Martin Buber correctly perceived, the relationships are more important than the nodes. The blogosphere is that ethereal web of relationship that serves as food for bloggers -- an experience lost on those with only one-way channels, such as was the earmark of the 20th century dictation. But as the journalists and bloggers in Greensboro are teaching us, there is nourishment in creating a breathing system that directly involves citizen participation. It is a plus for freedom, a plus for community, and a plus for democracy.

And this is taking place before your eyes. Social Innovation. Evolution.

A Blogging how-to for small city newspapers

Posted by Dave Winer, 2/15/05 at 5:55:35 AM.

with a heads-up to the Charlotte Observer and Creative Loafing...

excerpt:
Over the last week I've been visiting three towns in the Carolinas, Greensboro, Chapel Hill and now Spartanburg. In all three cities, the subject of blogging and local newspapers has been a major topic. Since I'm now giving the same advice over and over, I thought it would be a good idea to put it in writing, because it may be useful to other organizations and communities. Continue.

Make your own error message.

Loebrich.org: Blog Together - Triangle Bloggers Conference 2005

Loebrich.org: Blog Together - Triangle Bloggers Conference 2005

I copious list of bloglinks about the Triangle Bloggercon by Bruce Loebrich.

Pharmaceutical Company 1 - Human Being 0

"A 15-year-old boy who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents was found guilty of murder Tuesday."

Ever though there have been many cases where so-called anti-depressant drugs have been flowing through the veins of out-of-control youth, with numerous cases and several different drugs...the corporations, who are among the most wealthy and powerful in the land, walk away smelling like a rose-like product.

It's a damn shame these drugs weren't studied a little better for released into society. Not only did the parents and grandparents have to suffer, the boy has to keep suffering, thus widening the ring of suffering in that family. Good call judge! Hope you enjoy the added richness to your life!

I smell more suffering.

Blog Together/Conference Links

Anton Zuiker putting it together for NC bloggers

Links from people who blogged the conference.