Moral Environmentalism
In a tedious class on environmental politics, I wrote this paper exploring what the present generation’s moral responsibility to posterity requires it to do about energy use. This paper is interesting to me now, looking back on it, because I hadn’t yet taken John Davidson’s class on Intergenerational Politics, so my ideas about the moral [...]
Metaphors of Bush’s 2004 reelection paper
In one of my first honors college “colloquium” classes, taught by Mark Johnson, I was introduced to his and George Lakoff’s theory of cognitive metaphor. This paper explores a metaphor of moral strength to evaluate its role in President Bush’s 2004 reelection victory, which was often publicly attributed to high turnout of “values voters.” Since [...]
Papers from my first undergraduate PS class
A blast from the past! My first political science papers from my second year at the UO. The class was comparative politics. The final project is interesting to read back on now, as my understanding of these issues has grown in ways I didn’t predict then. The assignment: You will design a developing country in [...]
Re: Paul Krugman, “Obama’s Trust Problem”
Paul Krugman recently wrote a good article on health care, in surprise that Obama and the Democrats didn’t expectsome resistance from the left after bailing out chummy banks and rolling over on health care (among other “compromises”). Specifically: “Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything [...]
#opened09 backchannel
Here’s the embedded widget for the conference backchannel chat, though I’m sure much of the discussion will be on Twitter #opened09
What sessions should I go to at #opened09?
Now that I’ve got plans all worked out to actually make it to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver next week, I’ve got to decide what to do there. Check out the schedule and leave a comment if you think I’m missing something too good to miss. http://openedconference.org/program/program-schedule-at-a-glance – conference schedule Each session is 45 [...]
Doctors and Twitter
I saw this on another page, but its spam filter was all messed up and I couldn’t post my comment, so I’m bringin’ it back home. I do not think Twitter is the appropriate tool for most of these types of actions, though I do believe hospitals should embrace web 2.0 techniques. Really, the important [...]
Re: “Finally, A Plan to Save Newspapers” by Connie Schultz
This rant was written in response to a column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz. She argues that Internet news aggregation is killing traditional newspapers and that dismantling the public’s right to quote the day’s news articles is the solution to maintain newspapers’ profitability. She quotes her paper’s lawyer: “It’s unfair competition with unjust [...]
Web 2.0 tools that I hope more of my friends start using
Web 2.0 is better if you bring your friends along. That’s the whole point… connecting your social network to resources, information, and cheezburger cats. Social bookmarking tools: Del.icio.us is the classic, but Diigo is my new preferred social bookmarking tool, because it combines basic linking and tagging with groups and social tools. You can make [...]
The AP’s fair use battle
This post follows from a couple links I posted on Facebook recently. There is a conflict between an old model and a new one. The giants of media are on one side, and “blogs” are on the other. Similar to most conflicts about copyright, there is a division between the old guard and people who [...]
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