December 2010
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Climate Change: Key Indicators →
Awesome site by NASA except its done in flash :(
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The Avaaz Community Holiday Fuzzy Fest →
Dear Avaaz community,
Our team gets a ton of email from our community each week stuffed with wonderful messages of inspiration, warmth and wisdom — we call them “warm fuzzies”. It’s precious anytime you get inspiration from someone else, but particularly at this time of year they feel like amazing gifts.
So in the spirit of the season, let’s give these lovely...
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Bill McKibben: Everything Is Negotiable, Except... →
‘…Consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt…when he started Social Security it only covered widows and orphans. Medicare, at its start, only helped a relative few. Sanctimonious purists would have considered them “betrayals of some abstract ideal.” And yet they grew…
…(but) the terms of the climate-change conundrum aren’t set by contending ideologies, whose adherents can...
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Are we really hardwired to be aggressive and... →
‘…Do not underestimate the power of this force. The world could be much better if more of us were more active on behalf of what we believe in and love; it would be much worse if countless activists weren’t already at work from Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma and the climate activists in Tuvalu to the homeless activists around the corner from me…
…It is who we are, if only we...
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It's not looking good on the global pain/happiness...
…NASA has confirmed that 2010 was the hottest year on record and 17 countries set new records for their all-time highest recorded temperatures. I’m guessing I’m not alone in feeling a small shiver of dread every time another drought, flood, fire, hurricane or famine is reported, in anticipation of the much greater horrors we’ll all be facing in the coming decades. As for...
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Are our borders defined by our friendships?
In a stunning piece of data visualisation, Facebook intern Paul Butler has created a visual map of Facebook’s global network of friendships. By merging the data of 10 million pairs of facebook friends with Earth’s longitude and latitude coordinates, the resulting map is a powerful reminder that though we may be virtually connected on a global scale, as a human race in the...
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From Social Media to Social Strategy - Umair Haque... →
Yet another strong article from Umair Haque - with a third of our team directly driving our strategy and the rest invited to contribute and augment on our strategy wall and through upcoming sessions we’ve begun the process of socialising the control side of DE (but plenty of work to do yet!)
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The Value of Ritual in Your Workday - Peter... →
Any blog post that opens with a reference to The Last Samurai deserves a read and this is a corker - i honour this blog post now that i’ve finished reading it (I also honour this tumble-log post entry as i share it with my colleagues ;)
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Naomi Wolf on Wikileaks →
“…Anyone who works in supporting women who have been raped knows from this grossly disproportionate response that Britain and Sweden, surely under pressure from the US, are cynically using the serious issue of rape as a fig leaf to cover the shameful issue of mafioso-like global collusion in silencing dissent. That is not the State embracing feminism. That is the State pimping...
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Secrets And Leaks | newmatilda.com →
From the supremely excellent independent news-site ‘New Matilda’ - the best article I’ve yet read about Wikileaks; here’s some snippets, but you should read the whole thing:
‘…Secrets are stressful, as anyone who has kept a difficult one will know. They require constant vigilance, lest the more private self peek out from beneath the skirts of our deception....
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Loop 11 Online, Unmoderated User Testing →
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Support New Matilda - independent media is... →
We’ve done a lot to help New Matilda over the years but they’re going to go under (again) in a few days if people don’t continue to pledge support.
Click the link above to go to their Fund Break page.
Read why here
November 2010
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