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Rosalyn Carter on Daily Show discussing mental healthhealth

Rosalyn Carter was on the Daily Show last night discussing mental health issues and her most recent book Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis. John Stewart did a great job interviewing her and giving her the opportunity to discuss issues important to her. View the video. Daily Show interview of Rosalyn Carter

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2010 05 05 ernie Books Comments (0)

Political cartoons – Health Care Reform

Some political cartoons in wake of recently passed legislation.

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2010 03 25 ernie Politics Comments (0)

The Web’s Stories, Embedding Silicon Chips inside Human Cells, Google Chrome Videos

These links may not go too well together, but they are the some of the ones I was getting together for my class, Introduction to Computer Science, the other day. The first is another good TED talk. Jonathan HArris talks about ways to map, view the stories, blog entries on the Web. Very interesting stuff, […]

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2010 03 23 ernie About the Internet and the Web
Interesting Web Sites
Searching and Researching
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Vanishing Privacy (NYT) & Net Aids Dictatorships (TED)

The first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. The second is […]

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2010 03 18 ernie About the Internet and the Web
Politics
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Exposing Corruption; Transparency International

I watched this video presentation by Peter Eigen, from TED, and then looked up the site for Transparency International. Inspiring and worth spending some time at the site to learn about dealign with corruption on a global scale. Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt | Video on TED.com “”Some of the world’s most baffling […]

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2010 03 02 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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well put

Sargent By Ben Sargent

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2010 01 05 ernie Comments (0)

Two interesting links: Lives & Loves of Older People, Malamud- By The People

The first one was a real eye-opener for me. Especially as I get older myself. The second is a video of Carl Malamud presenting his views at Gove2.0 Summit. I’ve been reading his material for almost fifteen years now,and it is nice to see he is as active and right on as ususal. Op-Chart – […]

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2009 12 15 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Political Cartoons, Obama’s Afghanistan decision

Obama’s announcement of his  unfortunate decision to send troops to Afghanistan received some note-worthy political cartoons.

2009 12 02 ernie Politics Comments (0)

Political Cartoons – Obama Awarded Noble Peace Prize

A surprise award prompted several good political cartoons. They follow.

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2009 10 11 ernie Politics Comments (1)

Cobrowsing, media Literacy, Montoring your web server links for 2009-09-14

Reading some of my feeds at bloglines I came across these interesting links. Co-Browsing Tools: Guide To The Best Online Services (tags: cobrowsing library2.0 brainstorming collaboration tools)Tools for several people to simultaneously browse a Web site Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens – Sep 05 09 (tags: media literacy) […]

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2009 09 14 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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