Monthly Archives: February 2004

ADVICE FOR THE DEMOCRATS

Posted on February 12, 2004 by Dave Pollard

I‘m impatient to get on with the important job of rebuilding the American civil state once we’ve dumped Bush. It will take at least a generation to undo and recover from the damage that this incompetent and reactionary regime has … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 11 Comments

LEADING-EDGE BUSINESS IDEAS

Posted on February 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

A few interesting articles on innovation, knowledge and the future of business – worth a read: Distributed Social Software, by Eric Gradman via Seb Paquet at Many 2 Many: A grad student surveys the current generation of social software and … Continue reading →

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TOP 50 MANAGEMENT THINKERS

Posted on February 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

A website called Thinkers 50 has released its annual list of the 50 most important living management thinkers. The site has detailed bios of those that made the list. Site visitors can nominate anyone of their choice, and a panel … Continue reading →

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ARTISTS EXTRAORDINAIRE

Posted on February 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

This week’s New Yorker double edition (Feb.16 & 23) has a stunning work by the critically acclaimed but little-known comic strip artist Chris Ware (copy of one of his oil paintings shown above). Taking up two full pages of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 7 Comments

SALON BLOG DIRECTORY UPDATE – FEB.10/04

Posted on February 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

I have just updated the full Directory of Active Salon Blogs. You can download it in Excel format by clicking on the link at the top of the right sidebar just below my e-mail link. It contains current information on … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 6 Comments

AN ODE TO LEARNED HELPLESSNESS

Posted on February 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Vanessa wants to see the world, give something back, stop hoarding stuff But stays a meek consumer out of fear of ‘not having enough’. And Billy hides his genius, and acts and dresses like his friends For fear of seeming … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 3 Comments

DAVE’S BLOG CLEANUP PART ONE

Posted on February 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Well, thanks to readers much more tech-savvy than I am, I think I may be able to get Google to start picking up my posts again, and, by tightening up the code of my blogroll, also make the page load … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 12 Comments

THE TEN MOST UNDER-REPORTED HUMANITARIAN EVENTS OF 2003

Posted on February 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

MÈdecins Sans FrontiËres (Doctors Without Borders) recently released its list of the ten most under-reported humanitarian events of 2003. The map above shows which countries these events occurred in. Although the MSF site is temporarily down, you can read the … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 9 Comments

O GOOGLE, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?

Posted on February 7, 2004 by Dave Pollard

I have a mystery to solve. Up until last August, this blog was averaging about 450 hits per day, of which about 20-25% came from Google. But then suddenly, Google stopped crawling How to Save the World, except for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 20 Comments

POPULATION: A SYSTEMS APPROACH

Posted on February 6, 2004 by Dave Pollard

This is a very long, and important, post. If you’re in a hurry, please bookmark it and come back later. Of all the radical ideas I have espoused in How to Save the World, none has proven to be as … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 16 Comments