Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
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Official Google Blog: A New Approach to China
Perspectives
It is funny how we need to go to the other side of the world to realize that our way of thinking about things is not the only way
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Rental Goats
“That’s right, rather than spending tons of money and time on diesel-powered machines, filing the proper permits, and administering dangerous herbicides, the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant organization will loan your a team of 100 goats for all your brush-clearing needs—all at a very modest rates.“
http://www.good.is/post/rental-goats-clear-brush-better-beat-cosmonauts-in-space-race/
BEFORE GOAT
AFTER GOAT
“sometimes there are solutions to problems which are much simpler and cheaper than we expect“
Pollution in China
Sad but amazing photos: http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell. April 23, 2006
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Wall Street Smarts
“The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/opinion/14trillin.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=wall%20street%20smarts&st=cse
Romania’s UNESCO Heritage
Flooding in the Southeast
From The Boston Globe:
Heavy rains, beginning on September 19th, dumped between 15 and 20 inches of rain over three days on parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The deluge overwhelmed natural and man made systems, and the record-breaking downpour turned streams into rivers, swamping neighborhoods, washing out roads and, unfortunately, taking at least nine lives. Damage costs are estimated at $250 million, the cleanup just now beginning. Georgia’s Republican Governor Sonny Perdue recently announced that President Obama has issued a Federal Disaster Declaration for individual assistance to aid residents of five affected counties. Collected here are a few recent photos around the area, largely centered on Atlanta, Georgia. (30 photos total)
Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls “iPod liberalism” — the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy — with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what_orwell_feared.html
Climate Summit Concludes Where it Began
An article from today’s WSJ on the UN meeting on Climate Change.
“The world’s two largest greenhouse-gas emitters called for new action to curb emissions linked to climate change, but they didn’t make any concrete new commitments themselves.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125362691727230691.html#articleTabs_video%26articleTabs%3Darticle