Web 2.0 and the Culture-Producing Community

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:38 PM EDT (Sound In Motion)

A historical, theoretical, and practical examination of Web 2.0 as an emerging public space with an emphasis upon social news site Newsvine.com.

technology, internet, new-york, newsvine, blogs, web-2-0, cooperative-newsmaking, internet-evolution

Snow Falls In Malibu

Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:27 PM EST (knbc.nbcweatherplus.com)

First it's 70 degrees on January 2nd in Brooklyn, and now it's snowing on palm trees in Malibu! Good heavens.

us-news, global-warming, climate-change, weather, snow, santa-barbara, malibu-hills, wrath-of-god

Federal agencies relocating outside of D.C. nuke blast zone

Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 2:11 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Many federal agencies formerly located in America's capital are relocating outside a potential "blast zone", fearing the possibility of a terrorist (or state-sponsored) nuclear strike on the city.

us-news, terrorism, washington-dc, terrorists, homeland-security, dc, pnac, nuclear-bombs

White dolphin extinct after 20 million years

Seeded on Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:07 PM EST (CNN)

The dolphin lives in the Yangtze River. Or did, rather. :(

politics, china, environment, nature, wildlife, dolphins, extinction, endangered-species, yangtze

Christian Coalition Prez-elect steps down because "ending poverty" doesn't represent constituents

Seeded on Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:11 PM EST (The New York Times)

The board of directors for the CC said that ending poverty and fighting global warming don't represent their constituents. Really? I wonder which Jesus they serve. Anyone read the last part of Matthew 25 lately?

politics, economy, global-warming, climate-change, christianity, poverty, jesus, evangelicals, joel-hunter

Evangelicals Press Bush, Congress on Environment

Seeded on Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:00 PM EST (beliefnet.com)

Evangelical leaders, including a new corps of young activists, called Thursday (Nov. 16) for President Bush and the new Democratic leaders of Congress to pay greater attention to concerns over climate change.

religion, global-warming, climate-change, christianity, students, evangelicals, evangelicalism, environmentjesus-christ

Are young evangelicals leaning left?

Seeded on Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:39 PM EST (PBS)

The next generation of Christians are waking up to a bigger gospel, and they're already changing the world with it. Poverty, creation care, and justice are all returning to the center of the evangelical values set.

politics, us-news, religion, environment, christianity, evangelicalism

What is "The Age of Less"?

Seeded on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:49 PM EDT (OrganicJesus.org)

There has been some curiousity as to the meaning of this site's subtitle, "Imagining the Kingdom of God in an age of Less".

religion, oil, energy, christianity, future, peak-oil, evangelicals

OPEC cutting production by 1mbpd to keep prices strong

Seeded on Mon Oct 9, 2006 4:55 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Six OPEC members, including Saudi Arabia, cut oil output by a total of 1 million barrels a day in an effort to revive prices that lost a quarter of their value in recent months, a spokesman for the group said.

business, oil, energy, oil-prices, opec, peak-oil

Greenspan thinks housing slump may be over

Seeded on Mon Oct 9, 2006 3:12 PM EDT (Reuters)

The U.S. housing market appears to be emerging from its recent travails and the "worst may well be over," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as saying on Friday.

business, economy, recession, real-estate, housing, housing-market, greenspan

A concerned Christian approach to the Market

Seeded on Mon Oct 9, 2006 11:42 AM EDT (OrganicJesus.org)

The final Power that I'll focus on is the Market -- variously called "The Economy", "the Invisible Hand", "Capitalism", and "the free excange of goods and services." And I think some old ragamuffin rabbi once called it "Mammon." I believe it is the idol of our age, and I fear th …

religion, economy, money, corruption, christianity, capitalism, market, peak-oil

Tweak in Goldman Index played role in gasoline price drop

Seeded on Tue Oct 3, 2006 3:08 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Politics and worries about oil supplies may have caused gasoline prices to go up at the pump earlier this year, but one big investment bank quietly helped their rapid drop in recent weeks, according to some economists, traders and analysts.

business, economy, oil, corruption, oil-prices, gasoline, peak-oil, manipulation, october-surprise

Despite recent price drop, bets for 2007 oil jump higher

Seeded on Tue Oct 3, 2006 2:10 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Oil analysts are raising their price estimates for next year in anticipation of increased demand that may outpace the development of new deposits.

business, economy, iran, oil, oil-prices, peak-oil, petroleum

OPEC: Falling prices point to imbalanced oil market

Seeded on Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:37 PM EDT (Breitbart)

It's easy to say that they're freaked out because this means their profits will decline with these lower prices. But I don't think that's the whole story.

business, economy, oil, energy, prices, oil-prices, trading, opec, peak-oil, energy-crisis

Evangelicals get with it on climate change

Seeded on Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:22 PM EDT (The Buffalo News)

Tending to your soul at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Boise, Idaho, involves recycling old cell phones and printer cartridges in the church lobby, pulling noxious weeds in the backcountry and fixing worn-out hiking trails in the mountains.

bush, religion, environment, christianity, earth, evangelical, idaho, stewardship, sierra-club, creation-care

Google Earth exposes Gored Earth

Seeded on Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:17 PM EDT (newscientisttech.com)

Thanks to the UN Environmental Program, you can now look at before-and-after pics of global hotspots of environmental destruction. Amazon deforestation, disappearing glaciers and polar ice caps, and urban growth top the list.

technology, environment, google, global-warming, un, amazon, google-earth, deforestation

Front of MSNBC.com: 9/11 Conspiracy theories flourish

Seeded on Fri Sep 8, 2006 10:33 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Includes some okay theories, but mentions the ludicrous "no plane" theory, which is the wee bit of poop mixed in to sour the whole brownie, so to speak.

us-news, bush, terrorism, 9-11, pentagon, propaganda, conspiracy, peak-oil, conspiracy-theory, war-games

Obrador to set up parallel government in Mexico

Seeded on Mon Sep 4, 2006 1:52 AM EDT (Reuters)

Mexico's leftist opposition leader said on Sunday he will never recognize his right-wing rival as president and vowed a "radical transformation" of the country by setting up a parallel government.

world-news, election, mexico, controversy, election-fraud, obrador

Military to spend $20M spinning Iraq news, making propaganda

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:52 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.

world-news, news, iraq, war, media, military, propaganda, neocons, facsism

Housing market in free fall; expect big recession in 2007

Seeded on Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:26 PM EDT (RGE Monitor)

So, the simple conclusion from the analysis above is that this is indeed the biggest housing slump in the last four or five decades: every housing indictor is in free fall, including now housing prices.

business, recession, real-estate, housing, inflation, housing-bubble, housing-crash

Voters across USA agree: political system "badly broken"

Seeded on Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:43 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A plurality of voters in each of 32 states agree that the political system in the U.S. is "badly broken." Percentages range from a high of 63% in Vermont to 47% in Nebraska, but all point in the same direction.

politics, election, voting, polls, vote-fraud

Will unemployed become cannon fodder for neocon wars?

Seeded on Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:29 PM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

Considering the loss of good jobs, the high debt burden, and the dependence on imports, it is unclear what will enable America to pull herself out of the next recession. Perhaps growing ranks of the unemployed will become cannon fodder for Bush's wars in the Middle East.

us-news, war, economy, iran, military, recession, unemployment, draft, neocons, peak-oil

Housing slide fuels fear of bigger crash

Seeded on Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:21 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The downturn in the US housing market will force businesses to slash 73,000 jobs a month in the new year and could be more damaging to the world economy than the dotcom crash, economists have warned.

business, recession, real-estate, market, housing, peak-oil, housing-crash

Housing is in free fall, pulling the economy down with it, economist says

Seeded on Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:30 PM EDT (MarketWatch.com)

The United States is headed for a recession that will be "much nastier, deeper and more protracted" than the 2001 recession, says Nouriel Roubini, president of Roubini Global Economics. Writing on his blog Wednesday, Roubini repeated his call that the U.S.

business, economy, recession, real-estate, depression, housing, inflation, peak-oil, housing-bubble, housing-collapse

Housing Market Quickly Imploding

Seeded on Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:59 AM EDT (Reuters)

The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell a sharper-than-expected 4.1 percent in July to their lowest level since January 2004 as the downturn in the U.S. housing sector accelerated, the National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday.

business, recession, real-estate, market, housing, inflation, us-economy, peak-oil, housing-market, housing-bubble

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