Before the Internet and it was easy to find quotes, I was doing some work for a client that was a strong supporter of a local food bank and found a quote from Mark Twain: “principles have no real force except when one is well fed.” Throughout history, food security has led to riots, wars Read More
I invited 35,000 of you to come to the League of Women Voters’ event tonight via a robo-call. It’s a technology I find offensive, and I apologize profusely for intruding into your homes with a 30-second call. It’s not my preferred way of campaigning, but, since I don’t have everyone’s email addresses (and there is Read More
A sea change is coming to international relations- and social media will be the engine driving the movement. The latest release from Wikileaks is a fascinating look at the good ‘ole boy/country club that’s making decisions on how the world turns: A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the Read More
So far, other than the newspaper- no one has told me how to vote yet. The party machinery, so used to working a last-minute push, with “slate cards” and endorsements in hand hasn’t adjusted to this newfangled expanded voting period. And while the party faithful have no problem checking off all the D’s or R’s Read More
It’s been interesting to watch how Wikileaks made the last big leak available, to traditional media first and the rest of us later. Wasn’t that the point of the web- access to everybody? But, in this information overloaded society- we still look to established sources and tools to evaluate and analyze data for us. The Read More
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