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Forget Presidents’ Day. We want Deliberation Day. (But maybe change the name to something better, like “Democracy Day.”)
(Draft of a book review for work. Please comment.) A growing corporate “transparency movement” and growing global civil society-both enabled by information technology-will pull globalization into the side of the good. So says Ann Florini in The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World. Florini likens the current information technology revolution to the […]
I wrote a review of a Slavoj Zizek book for work early last year, and it was recently republished in Chile. (It just arrived in the mail today.) For your reading amusement, the Google re-re-translation is here. (I had an easier time with the Spanish, but the Google version does make me sound more like […]
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Sometime last week or this week MyIrony had its first birthday. (Happy birthday to MyIrony, happy birthday to MyIrony…) I’m not sure about the timing because I spent a couple of weeks just futzing around with preliminary designs on blogger.com before I moved everything over to makingchutney.com using MovableType’s free software. I highly recommend MovableType […]
From AKMA and Wealth Bondage: ordination as hazing. Son, we’re gonna have to teach you how to play ball.