1. E10 Session Podcast: Thin Clients: The Hidden Weapon for the Budget Battle 25 minutes ago   permalink

Gbayne / EDUCAUSE

Colorado State University has successfully leveraged thin clients to increase services to students, faculty, and staff despite declining budgets. In this session, Mark Ritschard , Director of Engineering Network Services Director of Operations for CSU, covers the basics of thin clients and how to set up a thin environment. He also offers an in- ...

2. Poll: Tax the rich to balance the budget 1 hour ago   permalink

Poll: Tax the rich to balance the budget
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Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.

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3. Wall Street Journal Joining Establishment Effort To Kneecap Palin? 1 hour ago   permalink

Owillis / Oliver Willis

I’m not sure about that, but it’s pretty odd to see the Wall Street Journal editorial page come out in defense of Michelle Obama versus Sarah Palin: “Health-care reform on an individual basis is often just this simple: We could save a lot of money and a lot of grief by making smarter choices,” Mrs. [...]

4. Life Inc – the movie in Japanese, the book in paperback 1 hour ago   permalink

Douglas / Douglas Rushkoff

Keiko Tanaka just translated Life Inc, the movie, to Japanese – just in time to celebrate the paperback release tomorrow. (Thanks Keiko! I am honored.) To watch with English, Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguese or Slovac subtitles, select your language from the dropdown menu. Life Inc, the paperback, comes out Tuesday January 4. You ...

5. Freedom Riders Blast Rep. Bernie Thompson, Haley Barbour 2 hours ago   permalink

Freedom Riders Blast Rep. Bernie Thompson, Haley Barbour
Owillis / Oliver Willis

I wasn’t aware of this controversy, check it out (via Tim Shorrock): Many of you have received a letter signed by Congressman Bennie Thompson and Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi. The letter invites you to an event in Jackson, beginning May 22, 2011 (18 days after our reunion in Washington, D.C.) in which they propose [...]

6. VIDEO: How Republicans Screw The Religious Right 2 hours ago   permalink

Owillis / Oliver Willis

I recommend the entire series of God In America for a great look at how religion has affected American history. But I particularly recommend the final hour of the series as the religious right themselves explain the way in which Republican presidents like Reagan and George W. Bush totally used them without actually enacting the [...]

7. Celebrating Public Domain Day 4 hours ago   permalink

Lucas Gonze / Lucas Gonze

Public Domain Day : January 1st every year. If you live in Europe, January 1st 2011 would be the day when the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin and hundreds of other authors ranging from Leon Trotsky to Nathanael West emerge into the public domain [1] — where they are freely available for anyone to use, republish, ...

8. PR firms and the link-less news release... 1 day ago   permalink

PR firms and the link-less news release...
Www.zdnet.com

I get a lot of email pitches and other communications from PR firms. Yet the hyperlink - the most basic element of digital docs — is rare in those documents. Why?

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