Coming Back Online, Maintaining Balance
I am just working to put it back into a larger context of my life/health, the lives of the people that matter to me (many of whom aren't mass consumers of the Internet's many gems) and the larger issues facing our world.
What are the sounds a Web Community makes?
I have been enjoying participating in, learning from, and collecting my thoughts on the part longstanding part burgeoning-emerging DC new media/tech community. As I have said before, there are undoubtedly many many groups that meet, organize, take action, support one another, etc. that I have yet to discover, but am excited to do so.
What New Media Means to Me
For me, the Internet is less about the technology and the codes behind it (though, I highly respect the beauty in both the front and back-end of any product, even though I don’t know how it all works… and I also highly respect the people who bring them to life)… *I digress*… for me it is about connecting on a deeper level, crossing boundaries of geography and background, and getting things done.
Yeasayer/MGMT Show in DC… needs your help!!!
Join the cause as either a fan, or as a lover of social media as it affects the real world. Move the needle, make it happen!
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DC [2.0] Rising
…when it comes to who is listening and caring about online discussions, outlets, tools, networks and technologies… the “influentials” appear to not only take this new medium seriously, but they are willing to put/putting it to work.
Studying the Shadows from Startup Weekend DC
To apply this same methodology, the blog posts, WaPo article, and comments from Startup Weekend are in fact a shadow being cast for us — in the DC area — and for the rest of the country, for that matter, to read as an emerging body of energy, ideas and entrepreneurism. They tell the story.
Education, not war.
I do know that education, hope, and engagement are far more empowering and “preventional” than any band-aid approaches that require guns, killing and destruction.
Putin’s Power Moves… how bi-CZAR
This weekend on the McLaughlin Group, I helped develop a piece on Vladimir Putin and his Machiavellian ”chess moves” to guarantee [continued] political power in Russia.
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That We Should All Turn [Out] Healthy?
…the time has come to think about sex education. At this moment in history, the issues of gay marriage, LGBTQ rights in the workplace, and sex education policy and funding are ever-present.