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Cosby and me: Why we don’t see eye-to-eye
A reasonable and pointed rebuke of the Coz and his ideas about poverty.
(tags: racism poverty)

Bringing Our Best Practices Home
Justin Pinder on the usefulness of online organizing for offline ends.
(tags: organization activism social_software)

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Finding myself in a funny lull between summer work and the start of a new job, I’ve had a little free time to dance around the web and investigate things I wouldn’t usually spend a lot of time with. As proof of this, please see yesterday’s post, titled “Pigeon Cheese.”
I’ve also gotten to know [...]

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TeacherSource | learning.now . What Can Students Possibly Learn From Danger Mouse? | PBS
Andy Carvin gives rundown of mash-ups and new forms of cultural production and ownership and they relate to education.
(tags: mash-ups music literacy education)

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This is probably the funniest, cheesiest video featuring pigeons I have ever seen .

Tags: pigeons

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EchoDitto
“We create vibrant communities online and empower people through the creative use of emerging technologies. Following on our progressive values, we believe that building authentic internet voices and the establishment of a vigorous open source community i
(tags: advocacy politics democracy)

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Meat Is a Global Warming Issue
A great discussion of the environmental dangers of meat production and conusmption.
(tags: vegetarianism environment meat)

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I often get frustrated when I’m eating among people I don’t know well and they see I don’t eat most meat (though I do eat fish). Very often someone will ask, “is it for moral or ethical reasons?” First of all, what the hell does that mean? I think it means, do I [...]

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EFF: DeepLinks
More on DOPA’s background and its implications.
(tags: dopa technology education)

Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act
A great discussion about DOPA and social networking sites.
(tags: education dopa social_software)

Cool Cat Teacher Blog
A great blog about education and technology.
(tags: education social_software technology)

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