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POPSThe Future of Social Networking is...Email?!
I've been thinking about this very idea recently and then came across this article from @jeremiah. I was mostly coming at it from a product and user experience perspective. It seemed that a some of the 3rd party services based on Twitter (and Twitter too) have been coming full circle and deploying email-like strategies for both functionality (routing, groups, etc.) as well as the presentation layer (check out seesmic's list view on the web). Think also about how important email is to Twitter and facebook's user experience: where would they be without "now following" or "comment" emails? In the meantime, while those guys duke it out, Google has been infusing the social piece into their apps, and they've been doing it for some time now. With the recent social networking enhancements to GReader (in addition to GShare) they seem to be at it in ernest. Given the reliance on emails to bridge relationships between user/service and user/user, plus the adoption of gmail (among other G built pl
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POPSNative Peoples Out in Cold at Warming Meet
Activists like Lattimer and Powless note that most development projects in the forests are actually aimed at stealing the resources of indigenous peoples for commercial gains rather than helping them sustain their resources and environmental preservation. In recent years, numerous studies have shown that most of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples live in ecologically diverse areas and that they rely heavily on natural resources. But due to climate change, they are losing their sources of livelihood. "There has been a lot of attention paid to the damage climate change is doing to the environment and the loss of certain plant or animal species, but we aren't sufficiently recognising the impact on people," said Farah Mihlar, who wrote the MRG report. The indigenous representatives say the so-called "'scientific' mitigation and adaptation solutions, methodologies and technologies being discussed by the policymakers do not reflect their vision and ancestral knowledge." "[The
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POPSVote Blocking: Democracy the GOP/Rove way Vote caging is an illegal tactic to suppress minorities from voting by having their names purged from voter rolls when they fail to respond to registered mail sent to their homes. The Republican National Committee signed a consent decree in 1986 stating they would not engage in the practice after they were caught suppressing votes in 1981 and 1986.
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