Nicholas Carr:The Shallows

In this interview, Nick discusses his new book "The Shallows"

and whether the Internet is making us trite.

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs

help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news,

bypassing censors (however briefly).

The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus will change the world

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" --

the shared, online (generous) work we do with our spare brain cycles.
While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats),
we're building a better, more cooperative world.

An ode in song

Professor Ian Lowe’s (President, ACF) absolute ripper of an ode to failing leadership on "the greatest moral issue of our time", thanks to http://www.live.org.au.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/08/ssw_20100807_1258.mp3

Kids welcome asylum seekers

To mark UK Refugee Week in June 2006, media co-op and Oxfam launched 'Primary', a video that brings a fresh perspective to the issue of asylum.



"Kids welcome asylum seekers. When will grown-ups catch up?"

Have your say: www.oxfam.org.uk/ukpovertypost

Nic and Bach at Hermannsburg

Autumn Ivy 2010

Blessed are the peacemakers

Tubwayhun lahwvday shlama dawnaw(hie) dalaha nitqarun. (The language is Aramaic.)

'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.'

All the major traditions that arose from the Middle East, that is, Jewish, Christian and Islamic have their roots in the same source, the same Mother Earth and probably from the same language. They are believed to have all originally called God either El or Al which means that the One or that One which expresses itself uniquely through all things. From this root arises the sacred names Allaha (aramaic) Allah (Arabic) Elohim (Hebrew), and Elat (Old Canaanite).

(Above translation from Prayers from the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas- Klotz.)

Making more room for women in the Church

Making more room for women in the Church - Eureka Street

An interview with American Benedictine nun, Joan Chittister...

PS 22 Chorus

The PS22 Chorus is a children's choir of 60 kids from a New York City public primary school.

Women-only food lines in Haiti

Source:

http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/women-only-food-lines-in-haiti/

Death of Mary Daly

"I think she was a central figure for the feminist movement in the 20th century, and hopefully beyond," said Robin Morgan, who edited Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement. "She had a fierce intellect and an uncompromising soul that sometimes gave even her most loving friends indigestion, but it was worth it. She redefined the parameters of philosophy. She called herself a feminist philosopher, and she really was -- she was the first.''

For more, see:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=mary-daly&pid=138207379