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POPSFree Lectures and Courses... This was clipped some time ago by someone to whom I add thanks. Newer clippers may find it interesting. I've detailed the astronomy items as that is what I was searching for.
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POPSCadillacTight Directory - Premium Articles Premium Directory of Information and business resources. Search on various categories, Cadillac Tight is family friendly human edited directory. We review all listing prior accepting into our directory.
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POPS A Suspect's Long History of Hate, and Signs of Strain
"He felt it was the direct result of someone in Washington looking at his Web site." In one of his e-mail blasts expressing his white supremacist views, the man police sources say shot and killed a security guard yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum told readers that they shouldn't expect to hear from him again. Von Brunn was shot and critically wounded by museum guards. He was about to give away his computer, his primary connection to the fringe world of radical racists. He was living hand to mouth. The e-mails were getting violent in tone: "It's time to kill all the Jews." Von Brunn, who lives in Annapolis, was known for decades to fellow white supremacists who read his elaborate conspiracy theories on his Web site and met him through a network of radical racist groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has kept an eye on him since 1981. Lately, it has focused on his Web site, www.holywesternempire.org.
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POPSThe power structure of Bronze Age societies was based on social networks I actually find this demonstration highly important and pertinent to our modern day situation on the web. It appears that evolution of civilization favors a society organized around the tribal concept (our modern day equivalent being the loosely knitted, groups or indeed tribes on the social networks). It seems that the future heralds a return to tribalism on a global scale via the web.
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POPSNiche Socializer Want to know what the biggest trend in the history of the Internet is? That's right - it's social networking... the likes of Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube to name a few. Facebook has over 175 million members or to put it into context.... *HALF* the population of the USA. What if YOU could own Facebook? Visit : http://www.nichesocializer2.com
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POPSTwitter and Social Media to be Taught in Schools If kids need to learn about history, they can just Google it! All kidding aside, really the debate going in UK schools is that kids will not learn to appreciate the Art of Reading for what it is... One of the comments made an excellent point: Why teach Twitter & SM to kids when they already know how to work the Internet better than we do! Well, if they alter the curriculum, it will be the biggest change the school system has seen in over a decade. I say Twit lil Tweeters!
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POPSHooeey Check this out--Or maybe don't When I looked into this site further, Google indicated it was a security risk because their certification certificate had errors?!? I decided to remove it--better safe...
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POPSPrivacy may be dead; what the Web knows about you A lot of the pressure that rises in this time is related to the privacy concept. The entanglement of human life and the Web is creating an interesting space in which human's identity is being decoded to bits of information, that become part of the virtual space which is the free flow of the web. As such the question of possession arises. Who owns my (a metaphor of course ;-) ) identity? or in different words, do my identity belong to me?
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POPSWigix the eBay 2.0 Wigix is the new way to buy and sell online. It's a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourages informed buying.
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POPSEvery Man a King: The idea of shared wealth This comes from a wonderful brief yet concise web page about poverty and social services in the US from 1601 till now. It explains "Poverty Law" and how it came to America and much more. Huey Long is just part of the history of this page but my favorite part. All worth the read. Personally I found the history a bit disheartening as perceptions have not changed much in the history of our brief nation.
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POPSThe Children of Web 2.0 "As much as I may decry much of the hot air that flows around terms like social media, social networks et al, something I read today makes me think that underneath all this self-importance and ego stroking that surrounds the tech blogosphere, something very important is happening. Much like how many of our true public servants rose out of the hippie and peace corps generation, we could very well be seeing the same generational birth of the real movers and shakers happening."
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POPSThe web that time forgot "Today, Otlet and his work have been largely forgotten, even in his native Belgium. Although Otlet enjoyed considerable fame during his lifetime, his legacy fell victim to a series of historical misfortunes — not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Belgium and destroying much of his life's work. But in recent years, a small group of researchers has begun to resurrect Otlet's reputation, republishing some of his writing and raising money to establish the museum and archive in Mons."
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POPSBritannica Widgets The Encyclopaedia Britannica recently launched its Britannica WebShare program with free online access for Web publishers, a Twitter stream and blog-friendly widgets.
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POPSHappy Birthday Kore7 Jason is one of my favorite Clippers. We don't agree on anything and he's so nice about it. Happy Birthday!
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POPSMusic Links The page Music Technology Links of the site of Podcomplex contains a long list of links about music theory, the physics of sound, tips on setting up your computer to create music and more. Below, a part of that list, with some topics of general interest.
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POPSHillary vs. Obama: compare weakness
"The caricature of Clinton's self-defeating pragmatism isn't easy to reconcile with the competing caricature of Clinton's self-defeating rigidity. You can argue that the exaggerated pragmatism is an overreaction to the Hillarycare debacle, in which Clinton, arguably, was undone by her rigidity... Perhaps the resolution of this seeming contradiction is that once Hillary is done eliminating everything brave or original from a policy proposal, she defends it to the death." "Obama has hedged on single-payer, he's kept mentions of the Social Security fix out of his Web site's policy pages on taxes and the elderly, and he wasn't in the Senate when the war resolution was voted on. To some extent, Obama's hedging on many of his more controversial stands is smart politics. But an unfortunate result is that he often ends up hiding behind airy generalities and vague-but-uplifting rhetoric, and I can understand why Wolcott would conclude that Obama is too saintly for the Oval Office."
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POPSThe Spread of Ideologies: ClipCast v. The Rise of Bengali Islam Although I've always enjoyed using clipmarks as a tool to research social trends and ideologies, with Clipcast, Clipmarks is rapidly becoming a subject worthy of such research itself. Consider this: The effect of making Clipmarks (and it's community of ardent followers) mobile, and capable of organizing in more than one internet context is remarkably similar to the way in which Islam spread over much of South and South Eastern Asia. For those who are interested, I heartily suggest reading Richard Eaton's "The Rise of Islam on the Bengal Frontier." I've clipped its thesis here. It is one of the most interesting and insightfully approaches to understanding the interaction between social and ideological groups. It goes well beyond the coarse but popular theories of war and mercantilism in explaining the reason for Islamic success in a part of the world that America has failed miserably at influencing.
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