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Push Media: Fueling Fear and Despair?

Posted in Think on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Last night I did something I haven’t done in awhile; I watched the CBS Evening News. From as early of an age as I can remember, I’ve always liked the news, regardless of whether it was print or broadcast media. Basically, I’m a news junkie.
The news stories presented last night included timely [...]

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Columbus Social Media Cafe: Video Recap

Posted in Listen, See on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the first of five video clips from the most recent meeting of the Columbus Social Media Cafe. Visit the Media Cafe site to view the remaining clips or subscribe to all of WOSU’s video clips with your YouTube log in.

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Columbus Social Media Cafe: Values and Beliefs

Posted in Experience on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A friend once convinced me that beliefs are less productive to a culture than values. While beliefs may be the proclamation, values are what drive them and without a strong value system, beliefs can quickly become useless words.
Here’s a great example: If the cultural value is “natural resources” then the beliefs, the actions [...]

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Social Media and You

Posted in Experience, Visit on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ongoing discussions about what Social Media looks like and feels like continue as we prepare for Tuesday’s (3/18/08) Columbus Social Media Cafe hosted by WOSU and COSI.
One goal is to create hyper-local media that’s unique and compelling and have WOSU be the megaphone that spreads the word. Another goal is to create a dialogue [...]

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Zanne takes the COTA Challenge

Posted in Do, I'm Taking the Bus on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Suzanne, who writes for the blog “Zanne”, is embarking upon her own COTA Challenge. Read how she plans to take advantage of the life-style changes offered by using public transportation.
Okay, Urban In-Fill has been an inspiration to me with his bus-riding commitment. I was already thinking about taking the bus to and from work [...]

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School Funding

Posted in Think on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m intrigued by why tax levies for schools continue to fail. Yesterdays voting showed signs that this remains to be a trend and I look at these results from two opposing perspectives. From either side it’s easy to conclude that residents are not keen on increasing taxes to fund schools.
It may be logical [...]

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Educational Comparisons

Posted in Listen, Read, See on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Andrew Miller at Elephants on Bicycles recently posted information about Finland’s education system that he found in a Wall Street Journal report. The article offers insight as to how Finland’s pubic education system has moved into the top rankings world-wide.
In contrast, yesterday I heard a WOSU broadcast of This American Life that exposes a [...]

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Ka-Ching

Posted in I'm Taking the Bus on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that my car consumed just 9.3 gallons of gas during the month of February requiring only $28.89 to refill the tank for March. That is now less than my electric bill.
Trips on pubic transportation were 27.
Trips by car were 16.
Total transportation costs: $73.89. That’s $1.11 [...]

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