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MediaShift . Digging Deeper::TechPresident, 10Questions Put Spotlight on ‘Voter-Generated Content’ | PBS
Great interview with Micah Sifry about Personal Democracy, techPresident, and 10Questions.
(tags: technology politics campaigns)

The Talk of the Town: Dylan
A description of a Dylan concert from 1974 makes it clear than Todd Haynes is on to something in 2007
(tags: dylan music)

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Just a quick note to say that I’m Not There — the Todd Haynes movie “about” Dylan — was utterly fantastic, one of the best, most unexpectedly moving films I’ve seen in a long, long time. 
I walked out of the theater unable to control my emotions.  It just brought out too many of them.  [...]

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A Fund-Raising Rainmaker Arises Online - New York Times
Two youthful computer whizzes are quietly trying to change how campaigns raise money, netting millions of dollars for Democrats in the process.
(tags: campaigns fundraising)

Surprise in Store in Giuliani Files? | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
A new web venture shows the former mayor’s record on gay rights. –Jose Antonio [...]

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Mostra
Nice old school font
(tags: fonts design tag)

techPresident – Joe Green on Project Agape and Online Democracy
(tags: Facebook fundraising non-profit democracy)

GroundReport
Citizen journalism effort.
(tags: citizen-journalism)

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iPower to the People — In These Times
Technology is disintermediating politics.
(tags: politics election campaigns technology)

Get Creative. Can Do. Rock On. Hahahaha
Oh. My God.
(tags: video business)

Eat Organic! Eat Local! Eat…What?
“Throwing up our hands and buying out-of-season, conventionally grown and paid-for produce is far worse than choosing fair trade over local, or vice versa.”
(tags: food trade organic)

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timbl’s blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
Sir Tim weighs approves of the phrase “Social Graph.”
(tags: internet social-graph social-networking web)

Pay Me for My Content - New York Times
Jaron Lanier on why we need to create payment structures for online content.
(tags: business internet art)

Publisher Gets Web Readers to Fill the Pages of Its Magazines - New [...]

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Just a note to say that my friend Terence, who I worked with in my former life as a textbook editor, has started up a fantastic blog called The Playful Librarian.
Terence and I left the ol’ publisher around the same time three and half years ago (has it really been that long?) for the [...]

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Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Jay Rosen’s Six Lessons from NewAssignment.net
Lessons learned from NewAssignment.net’s experiment with Wired.
(tags: journalism crowdsourcing)

The Hub: Upload It : See It : Share It : Take Action
The Hub blog.
(tags: video human-rights)

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