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If you look at the lists of presenters at conferences on web design, you might think there is no diversity. But that’s not true, and the discrepancy is pointed out now and again. There’s currently another go-around about it on and between a number of blogs. Jeremy Keith of Adactio has a good post: The [...]

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There was a fun first meeting for our new Boston SL meetup tonight in Cambridge, hosted by Tuan and Chris of Useful Technology. Stay tuned for more activities! You can check it out at meetup.com

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I wrote the article now featured on the uuworld.org home page: Religious reality in a virtual world.
A dragon, an angel, and a bug-eyed monster sit down in a Unitarian Universalist church. No, it’s not the beginning of a bad joke. If you’re in the popular online world of Second Life, it may just be a [...]

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I always find it interesting to see how Al Jazeera covers U.S. news, especially when it concerns the Middle East. And sometimes the most interesting thing is to see just how neutral the story is. Al Jazeera:
The US senate has refused to consider a resolution denouncing George Bush’s Iraq troop increase that the House of [...]

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I just bought a ticket to see Loreena McKennitt perform in Boston on April 21! I found out she’s touring quite by accident, and tickets only went on sale Thursday, so I was actually able to get an aisle seat in the fourth row of the balcony. Whoo hoo!

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Timbuktu Chronicles, a “view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities” by Emeka Okafor, takes note of Community Seed Banks with links to fuller reports..

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Technorati Profile

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I won’t link to their website, because that’s actually good for them, but the Snickers website has 1) a homophobic ad they aired during the Super Bowl; 2) three more even worse ads that they’re inviting people to vote on for airing during the Daytona 500; and 3) bigoted reactions from pro football players.
So, no [...]

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Nice take-down of Google in the Guardians’ story, “Read me first”

‘Miserable failure’ Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs
The company is allowing concerns about its public image to influence the search results it dishes up. . .
The perception of Google as an honest broker, disinterested in the information it presents, remains a [...]

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