Category Archives: Society

To Read 31MAY2012

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• Joan Blades: Reweaving the Fabric of our Society
• Bob Cesca: The Truth About the President and the Deficit
• Debunking Myths About Energy Security and Independence « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
• Olivier De Schutter | The Guardian
• Corruption And Dynasties | Deepak Lal | Cato Institute: Commentary
• From Gunfire at Sea to Maps of War: Profound Implications for Humanitarian Innovation | iRevolution
• Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker
• On the Allure of Ostriches and New Paths in Climate Communication – NYTimes.com
• Climate Change Extension: Presenting the Science is Necessary but I…
• Penn Jillette Drug Rant Against Obama | Video | TheBlaze.com
• Are we asking the right questions? – Boston.com
• Stowe Boyd
• The Elusive Big Idea – NYTimes.com
• Interdisciplinary teams and the innovative thinking
• Mona Eltahawy Blog
• Toni Morrison on her two selves | Q with Jian Ghomeshi | CBC Radio
• Dylan Ratigan: Sustainability = Security: The Next Mission for America’s Vets
• Cenk Uygur: What Did Obama Mean by Change?

22MAY2012

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• Two Kinds of Awareness | Tergar Learning Community
• Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
• Mexico’s drug war: Storm clouds with silver linings | The Economist
• Full Show: Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
• Facebook and Google: Intent vs. relevance
• “Please Don’t Learn to Code” – Cybercrud At Its Worst » Borasky Research Journal
• howard rheingold’s | tools for thought
• Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » How To Make Teams More Effective–My Harvard Business Review Video
• just://in.site » consulting for leadership, learning and technology
• 106. Fixed ideas « One Time, One Meeting
• The Power of Solitude | Tricycle
• Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
• Socrates as entrepreneur (4): philosophy as a tool of war – Philosophy for change
• What is philosophy and why should I care? – Philosophy for change
• Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
• 2012 Fiscal Summit | Sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
• Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
• Live Chat: Why Do We Fight? – ScienceNOW
• Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker
• A Cultural History of Physics – Intentional Software
• As GOP Backs Away From ‘Repeal And Replace,’ Media Remains Largely Inattentive
• Untitled Document
• CCPI
• Expand “within petition” & “across petitions” deliberation & knowledge facilities to build issue communities and understanding – Feedback on the White House’s New Petition Tool
• Find facts and do research inside Google Documents
• Decision Point ®: Introduction to Technical Analysis
• UN envoy Olivier De Schutter blasts Canada for ‘self-righteous’ attitude over hunger, poverty | News | National Post
• Rethinking the humanities Ph.D. | Inside Higher Ed
• Work-Smart Strategies presented by BlackBerry :: The 99 Percent
• Improving visualisation – Annotated tables and charts
• Information Overload Is Not Unique To Digital Age | Latest Marketing News

To Read 17MAY2012

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• How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
• Canada 3.0 Conference | What digital means for journalism: Q+A with Mathew Ingram
• What I Think I Know About Journalism » Pressthink
• Why Top Innovators Make Time to Waste Time | Humanizing Technology | Big Think
• The End of Growth | Jeff Rubin
• The Climate Misinformation Nation « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
• How to Engage Your Customers and Employees – R “Ray” Wang – Harvard Business Review
• Levels of Quality and Revenue Streams – O’Reilly Radar
• Shirky’s WebLog
• GigaOm “Twitter and Reddit as Crowdsourced Fact Checking Engines”
• What Are The Core Principles of Collaboration?

Various 14MAY2012

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• Columbia Journalism Review
• Listen to True Patriot
• Amazon.com: The Death of Liberalism (9781595554888): R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.: Books
• What can business leaders learn from ancient philosophers? | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
• It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart
• Plus Essay
• Center for American Progress Action Fund
• Global Innovations for Digital Organizing: Open Data, Good Governance, and Online/Offline Advocacy | TechChange | The Institute for Technology and Social Change
• Live Chat: The Political Brain – ScienceNOW
• Co-operative Economics, part 1: What is a Co-operative? » #OCCUPYSF
• Authentic Engagement in the Civic Space | Code for America
• Hoover Institution
• Ethics and Economics: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Easy Useless Economics – NYTimes.com
• Social Media Collective
• danah boyd | apophenia
• Susan Piver: Anticipatory Dread: Stop Putting Things Off
• Buddhism Religion: Beliefs, History, Rituals | Patheos
• Living_Mandala
• Brad DeLong
• How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform | Politics News | Rolling Stone
• Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
• It’s Saul Connected

Various Democracy Sites

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• Feedback on WH New Petition Tool – Expand “within petition” & “across petitions” deliberation & knowledge facilities to build issue communities and understanding
• Liu Institute for Global Issues
• J.H. Snider: What Is the Democratic Function of the White House’s We The People Petition Website?
• Co-creation: when the crowd goes beyond the experts | Ledface Blog
• Street Rebuttal non-partisan forum for current issues
• The Democracy Movement Blog
• What Attaches People to Their Communities? | Knight Soul of the Community
• AmericaSpeaks
• Policy Options – Canada’s premier public policy magazine
• International Association for Public Participation
• Innovation = Ideas with Impact | Public Policy Forum
• The Leading Innovation Project | Public Policy Forum
• Innovation Major Initiatives | Public Policy Forum
• What I Think I Know About Journalism » Pressthink
• Democracy as problem solving: civic … – Xavier de Souza Briggs – Google Books

NYTimes R&D

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• Andy Plesser: (VIDE0) The New York Times Launches “Ricochet” – Viral Ad Tool for Marketers
• The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
• Who or what exactly is The New York Times’ R&D Ventures? » Nieman Journalism Lab
• New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (And It’s for Brands) | ClickForSEO Blog – Marketing Articles and Latest SEO Tools
• New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product | MediaWorks – Advertising Age
• Mindshare – The Global Media Network
• In Big Data, Potential for Big Division – NYTimes.com
• [nytlabs]

Poverty Alberta

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• Mission and History
• Alberta
• Learn |
• Poverty in Canada — Resources
• Wealth of ideas on plight of the poor | Public Interest Alberta
• Network Members
• Edmonton Social Planning Council – Problematizing the Inter-City Forum on Social Policy
• Alberta | PovNet
• CCSD

Samara

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• samaracanada’s Channel – YouTube
• Current Research – Democracy – What We Do – Samara
• Morning Show
• Samara | “It’s My Party” media coverage
• Videos and Podcasts – Media Room – Samara
• News Coverage – Media Room – Samara
• Samara | Parliament 2.0: a case for digitizing democracy
• Samara | Political Outsiders: Samara on The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• Samara | “It’s My Party” on The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• Samara | “It’s My Party” media coverage
• Samara | “It’s My Party” Introduction
• Samara | Overview TOM

TapeWorm Economy

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• “How the Money Works” in the Illicit Drug Trade
• Catherine Austin Fitts : Deliberate Implosion of the U.S. Economy (FL-HQ) – YouTube
• The Unseen Role Of Denial: November 2006
• Prison Planet.com
• Hey Mayor Bloomberg! No, the GSEs Did Not Cause the Financial Meltdown (but thats just according to the data) | The Big Picture
• Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union – Published in 2009 | Let’s Try Democracy
• » Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
• TomPaine.Com – Home
• Contemporary fascism’s credo: The people, governments, and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations :: Salt Spring News :: Daily News Of and For Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
• The Tapeworm Economy
• Transcript | Drug Truth Network
• IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits – Bloomberg

28APR2011

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• About Us – ProPublica – ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
• Seedcamp
• The Accelerator Group (TAG)
• Zemanta for bloggers | Zemanta Ltd.
• – Google News
• BRob On Tech
• CQ Politics | Balance of Power – The Making of Obama the Firebreather
• P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The Long Descent (3): The failure of Lifeboat communities
• Reality Sandwich | Facing the Deindustrial Age – teaser:  Since peak oil was predicted in 1956, the prospect of any constructive response has grown steadily more distant. Neither political reform nor withdrawing to mountain hideaways are viable responses to our predicament. Is it too late to
• Real Think Tank
• gonna.grow.wings. – Generative Leadership | Organic Emergence | Dialogue
• The Innovation Journalism Blog
• S&P | Fiscal Challenges Weighing On The ‘AAA’ Sovereign Credit Rating On The Government Of The United States | Americas
• Overcoming Bias : Join The Party Party?
• On Line Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate
• Sentiment Analysis & Taxonomy | Earley & Associates
• How-to-Use-Stories-to-Boost-Collaboration.html
• Leverage Points Blog
• Strategic Thinking « Leading in Context
• Don Iveson — Edmonton City Councillor, Ward 10
• Interact with Council :: City of Edmonton
• environmental-strategic-plan.aspx
• Digress.it
• The General in His Study – NYTimes.com
• Jeremy Rifkin: ‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era
• Zombie Tax Lies – NYTimes.com
• No, Half Of All Workers Aren’t Freeloaders | The New Republic
• The BP Oil Spill: Raffi Khatchadourian, Eric Konigsberg, and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Political Scene: Audio : The New Yorker
• Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Emerging, Collaborative Economy
• Explore – QuietWrite