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Clean Energy Forum

Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

more about "Clean Energy Forum", posted with vodpod

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Caremark CVS delayed my mom’s cancer drugs

Posted in true stories, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Here’s what I wrote to them tonight after I found out from my dad that Caremark CVS has delayed my mom’s cancer medicine. They didn’t say why or what for. No explanation, just no delivery to the drugs that will help keep her alive – drugs to keep her white blood cells going.
What in the [...]

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Inspired by design

Posted in digital journalism on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We’ve chosen core components of the NOWCastSA home page, and it’s fair to say we’ve been inspired by the way some other folks have designed their sites.
Here’s what we like and why.
Because video is an important element of the site, we’d like to be able to feature it prominently. Perhaps it might look something [...]

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The most important words in President Obama’s speech

Posted in user generated content, tagged , , , on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What you see here is a word cloud, created in Wordle.net of the 50 words President Obama used the most in the remarks prepared for his chat with school children tomorrow. Here’s a link to the text of the prepared remarks. (The cloud image links to details of how it was made.)
Here’s one message from [...]

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Future seekers need better rear-view mirrors

Posted in journalism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 11 Comments »

As a Unitarian Universalist, I have a tough time embracing the Original Sin metaphor in the discussion about where news organizations went wrong online.
Yup, there have been a lot of failures.
But what’s getting lost in the discussion is a very real record of some game-changing innovation and achievements.
Progress, it seems to me, depends [...]

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