Get To Know: Betsi Goutal of Zalanrama

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:25:33 PDT
Meet a wonderfully colorful sponsor of ours… Meet Betsi Goutal of Zlanarama: Name: Betsi Goutal Business Name: Zlanarama Where are you located? Waltham, MA - a suburb of Boston What is it that you design and create? My tagline sums it up pretty well, actually – “Colorful treasures for your inner child… and your inner rockstar.” To elaborate on that, I make jewelry that’s fun to wear, that makes you happy, that makes you feel like a rockstar or like a kid again. Or in the case of some

Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:41:59 PDT
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

Loosely joined

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:23:21 PDT
The mighty Zeldman has written a thought-provoking piece called The Vanishing Personal Site which chronicles the changing nature of personal publishing. Where once we had a central URL that defined our online presence, people are increasingly publishing in fragments distributed across services like Twitter, Pownce, Flickr and Magnolia. It was this fragmentation that spurred my first dabblings with APIs to produce Adactio Elsewhere which I did three years ago to the day. Jeff takes a different

Ford shares rise on news of Kerkorian offer (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:50:44 PDT
Shares of Ford Motor Co. soared Monday on news that billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian planed to make an offer to boost its stake in the ailing automaker.

Is Chris Matthews Running For Office?

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:32:34 PDT
On HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher Friday night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews was asked about "scuttlebutt" that brash cable news host would run for office from Pennsylvania in 2010.Before entering journalism, Matthews served as an aide to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Matthews also unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1974.

World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...

Posted by Scott S | 0 comments

Al Gore's inconvenient food riots

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:51:54 PDT
Food is scarce enough in Haiti, Indonesia and Afghanistan to cause rioting in those countries. Food is expensive enough everywhere, including the U.S., to cause consumers to worry about the future. Given the trends, how will we afford food in the future? Will there be enough food at any price? Will food riots come to my neighborhood market?

The trouble with doom-and-gloom predictions

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:00:53 PDT
The trouble with doom-and-gloom predictions -- whether they be about oil shortages, food scarcity, water wars or population explosions --is that most are based on the linear extrapolation of short-term trends. If, say, rice prices rise, alarmists assume they will keep rising indefinitely at the same rate -- and then produce scary-looking ...

AFL-CIO´s John J. Sweeney Fears "an American Nightmare!"

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:04:05 PDT
On April 8, 2008, John J. Sweeney said in Baltimore, MD, that the country is going down the tubes and dragging working class people with it. He’s the head of the national AFL-CIO. He added that in November: “We have an opportunity to reverse these awful trends."

Fashion trends in an uncertain economy - Reuters

Fashion trends in an uncertain economy Reuters - 20 hours ago Their determination to follow the latest trends is playing out in disparate ways -- buying pricier but fewer haute style pieces, or opting for a wardrobe of ...

urbanFossil | Exploring The Future of Media

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:45:21 PDT
Adam Caplan's Blog: Examining and discussing the present state of new media by exploring its journey into the future. From news hot off the 'press' (no dead trees please), we'll look at many of the trends affecting new media including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, the semantic web, DRM, web 2.0, technoculture, net neutrality and yes, gadgets.

Jewelry. Need, Want, Have to Have: Monogram Necklaces

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:30:18 PDT
Like what you see? Shop these necklaces here Maybe it's because my initals have changed in the past year, I'm obsessed with initial necklaces. The scrollier the better, in my opinion. I do have a birthday coming up....hmmm. - Lauren...

The Next Fault Line in Foreign Policy Combat: "The U.S. Matters" vs. "No, It Really Doesn't"

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:13:07 PDT
Kishore Mahbubani and G. John Ikenberry may not know it -- but they are squaring off to be the new top tier rival powerhouse intellectual combatants. They each basically stand at the forefront of rival intellectual movements about the relative relevance of American power in the world -- Mahbubani heading the school that the West is in self-denial about its plummeting significance and Ikenberry heading those who think American power remains palpably larger than any other player and is still th

N'Sync star speaks out for Day of Silence

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:05:15 PDT
Gay bishop to attend Lambeth conference despite previous rejection The most senior openly gay cleric in the Anglican Communion, Gene Robinson intends to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference to be held in Caterbury despite previously refusing to. Popularity: 13% ?] Video: PinkNews editor takes Boris Johnson to task At the Stonewall hustings for the Mayor of London, chair of the hustings, PinkNews.co.uk editor, Tony Grew, took Conservative Party Candidate Boris Johnson to task. Popula

Posted by Scott S | 0 comments