Monthly Archives: April 2007

Sunday Open Thread – April 8, 2007

What I’m planning on writing about soon: Getting Better: Why are there so few excellent craftspeople, and so few excellent conversationalists? Bad practice? Changing Information Behaviours: It’s very difficult, but here’s how it can be done. On Propaganda and the … Continue reading

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Saturday Links for the Week – April 7, 2007

Photo floating around on the Internet, source unknown What it All Means This Week: Advising Others What to Do: Jeremy Heigh wonders aloud how we can advise others what to do with their lives when we’re not that sure what … Continue reading

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Five Bloggers Who Make Me Think Hard

Because I read blogs to learn, all of the blogs on my blogroll at right* are written by thinking bloggers. So when I got tagged by Janet as one of five bloggers that make her think, and challenged to pass … Continue reading

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Chicken Out: Something Simple to Do for Your Health, and Animal Welfare

As we’ve learned more about the health hazards of ‘red meat’, the chicken factory farming industry has exploded, and with it the cruel treatment of battery caged and ‘broiler’ chickens and the dangers of factory farmed meat and eggs to … Continue reading

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Why We Hate

Recently, a generous and uncontroversial business blogger, Kathy Sierra, whose blog has always been a must-read for me, was victimized by what can only be described as savage and unprovoked hate-mongering on the Web (some of it on sites that … Continue reading

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Endless Summer

It’s celebrated in dozens of popular songs — Endless Summer, Wonderful Summer, The Boys of Summer: A little voice inside my head said, “Don’tlook back. You can never look back.”I thought I knew what love was,What did I know?Those days … Continue reading

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The Fourth Turning, The Thirteen Cascading Crises and Generation Millennium

Graphic above is from a Rutgers University study exploring whether 9/11 was indeed the catalyst for the Fourth Turning. The graphic is available in a legible wall-sized version on the site.For those of you who have not read The Fourth … Continue reading

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Sunday Open Thread – April 1, 2007

What I’m planning on writing about soon: The Fourth Turning: The coming dark and turbulent era, and how Generation Millennium is likely to cope with it (Monday’s post).  The ‘M’ word. Squatter Communities (in struggling nations, which now contain as … Continue reading

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