Wired News: Bush Team Prepares Net Assault
Regardless of your politics, this article may well foretell the internet as the tool of social influence we’ll see in the future. The key: mobilize a mass of people to communicate a message, not tomorrow, but right now.
This means of influence is open to anyone who want to organize [...]
What does a barrel of crude oil cost, Alex?
Crude went to a record $50 yesterday. According to the NY Times:
Fueling these gains is the alignment of three events: record high demand, historically low spare production capacity, and a set of potentially destabilizing events in some of world’s the top oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Venezuela, [...]
The New York Times Magazine had a lengthy cover story Sunday about blogging and politics. Bloggers are getting a lot of attention these days because they got involved in both political conventions and because of the take-down of Dan Rather and CBS News over the bogus memos about the president’s National Guard Duty.
I guess you [...]
Forbes Magazine lists the 400 wealthiest in the world with 98 from California and 49 from New York City.
There are 45 new people on the list. You can start with < www.forbes.com> or go directly to the site and look up the people by their location. Download rl04land1.html
Are you going to talk to [...]
Here’s some excerpts from an article in a from Harvard Business School about achieving some sort of balance between scrutiny of nonprofit organizations and maintaining some degree of freedom from the rigors of compliance. The new forced transparency was triggered by recent abuses by boards in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Now there’s a [...]
Here’s an article about how companies are using the bankruptcy process to shed debts. One thing they’re doing as demonstrated by United Airlines is getting rid of pension plans. So that raises the question that’s been on my mind since I first heard about UA: With companies backing away from health care plan costs, are [...]
That’s the title of a book just published by Paul Light. The NY Times said:
“The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break.”
I think I speak for all ACS staff [...]
washingtonpost.com: As Income Gap Widens, Uncertainty Spreads
An article about one thing I’m sure we’ll have more of in the future: uncertainty.
#1The art of happiness…Is volunteering the blueprint for bliss?
New research indicates that helping others raises quality of life for British Citizens. When we volunteer our time to do something for others, such as helping out an elderly neighbour or taking part in a local community project, it can be good news for our health, our [...]
Wired News: Homeland Security 101
Scary stuff. It appears at a number of Universities across the US you can now enroll in classes to learn more about such topics as:
Rhetorics of Terror/ism, Homeland (In)Security, and the State, which examines the root causes of terrorism and current United States security concerns. Rice University offers Jihad and the [...]
