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Commentary: Power of culture - response to PFAW Kathryn Kolbert
excerpt of email to kathryn kolbert

response Kathryn Kolbert on ways we PFAW (People for American Way) can creatively
use culture to make social and political change

hi kathryn

hope all is well

kathryn the quick response to your ways we can creatively
use culture to make [...]

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Commentary: blogging revolution by Roy Greenslade - guardian.co.uk

my comment response to Roy Greenslade - Why journalists must learn the values of the blogging revolution as posted in the guardian online - June 25, 2008 9:02 AM - click here to go to article

i think of blogging as the power of one is [...]

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comentary: oh my god! Pew survey 92% of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit

my note: i am not sure about what god would say about this and if he/she/it/them/we/hmmm would agree or disagree or be pleased or displeased or remain silent to protect the innocent or or and but then again -who are [...]

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Commentary: Manufactured Oil Chaos, Bush Proposes Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban

The Future wants to know who we were and who protects us from those who say they are protecting us?

Bush Proposes Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban (see below) The reason for the recent manufactured chaos oil crisis was one of his last gifts to us of lifing [...]

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commentary: anonymous sources - in response to ask ny times

—– Message Text —–
my email response

as a documentary filmmaker working on a doc called Who’s
Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people
believe in something how can it be wrong - i also wonder
about the question of anonymous sources as a [...]

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Commentary: game of hints, promises and deception

editors note -
in reading in ny times article
Myanmar Rulers Still Impeding Access

i am caught by the revolving door that all point of view, agenda driven propaganda including but not limited to political and religious motivate comments all tend to be about promisses and deceptions - in [...]

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excerpted from email i sent to some of my friends romans and filmmakers

Subject: knock knock food for your imagination -  Reporter Gives up Everything  to Tell a Story
yo and so

this piece of the rainbow of possibilities is from al tompkins of poynter institute - see below below
(editors note:) what got my attention is not only [...]

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What happens now for Zimbabwe?

wake up people we are living in an idiotcracy - we need to stop pretending we are zombies and don’t know what is going on in Zimbabwe, many places in africa, around the world, the USofA are heading for melt down - our leaders of the world care only about staying [...]

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Comentary: Defining the un-definable ? “Digital Performance” 

 stumbled on online Defining “Digital Performance” (see below) 2003

 and well i have issues with defining the un-definable but the title
tickled my imagination and thinking about digital performance is something i wonder about in not those terms - well digital is such a cold term like USER and loser and [...]

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Commentary: Neutralizing the Net - NYTimes - Net Neutrality Hearing - Feb 25 2008

article in NYTimes online

My Comments on NYTimes web site

net neutrality is about neutralizing us - we need to wake up and liberate ourselves from fear - “we the people” came running to this country, to this internet nation too, we came from [...]

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the following is a message to the members of Facebook Nation group on facebook that i started to see what mischief we the people could make

 dear facebook nation et and al

as we again have the american s-Election process - we have to ask ourselves who are we and who do we want to be and [...]

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Me - photographed by Jeff Pulver -Philly 1-31-08

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Commentary: Robert Scoble conversation with FacebookZuckerberg at davos jan 26 08
my comment on scobleizer blog

interesting piece - would have loved to get more on Musharraf’s comments and if maybe zuckerberg and musharraf realized they both had maybe more in common then we can imagine - musharraf, a give me a break, totalitarian leader (president?) of [...]

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hmmm thanks for the special thanks for the heads up jeff - so my list is to live life and discover those moments beyond the usual that tickle the imagination and keep me in awe at the wonder and gift of life we all are “in” and surrounded by and then some

my dream is to [...]

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as we enter a new year a new beginning, ITS ABOUT TIME that we looked at ourselves and the world we live in and say something anything about how we can make it a better world isn’t IT ABOUT TIME more from the archive

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my take on the FCC ruling, Zombies & Emperor New Clothes Syndrome

first we all know by now that the media is mistress to big biz and gov, and basically one and the same and that for the most part nothing the media reports is what it appears to be

the question is Who is Wearing The [...]

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Proposed: December 5 a day of appeal - an internet day of appeal and celebration of “us” “We the People” -  the flapping of a butterfly wings can create a storm and change the direction of a storm - one person can make a difference -

the power of “us” the power of one is more [...]

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tomorrow is today tomorrow
by yesterday
tomorrow is today tomorrow
and yesterday is the day before today
and the present is always present
and somewhere over the rainbow there is
somewhere under the rainbow
and somewhere there is somewhere too

and nowhere is somewhere somewhere too
and wherever nowhere nowhere is not
and wherever where is where is not
and there there it will be ok
and [...]

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in response to ny times article  Exec Who Moved ‘Dem Bums’ Out of Brooklyn Is Hall of Famer

and my commentary send Brooklyn Dodger O’Malley to Baseball Hall oh’Shame
i wrote something similar in nytimes comment

i went to my first baseball game in Ebbets Field and went the year before last to see the METS with jeff [...]

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