New Discussions at FGI: April 2, 2007

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Should FGI start a podcast? Vote in our new poll at http://freegovinfo.info/node/1037! We looking for 50 people to give us a thumbs up or it’s back to the current awareness/promotion drawing board.This past week was another quiet [...]

President Bush deserves eco-credit

The Urban Legends Pages has a new entry documenting the eco-friendliness of President Bush’s ranch house in Crawford, Texas:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie [...]

Cardinal of Philly uses YouTube

One of the more unusual uses of YouTube I’ve seen lately came to me in this Catholic News Service Story about Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia. Cardinal Rigali is using YouTube for reflections for the Sunday Gospels of Lent. Here is the video for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, where a woman caught in adultery [...]

Memories of Mom - One year later

Memories of Mom
Originally uploaded by AlaskanLibrarian.
One year ago today I called my mom to wish her a happy birthday, her 69th. Instead I got a very sad and impaired dad telling me that mom had a major heart attack, was at the hospital in a coma and wasn’t expected to live [...]

Four years later, we’re not helping

ave_daily_casualities_page_22 Originally uploaded by AlaskanLibrarian.
This graph is taken from the public domain Nov 2006 issue ot the Pentagon series- Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. The red line is my personal "best fit" line for the overall trend. If you think you have a bitter line [...]

New FGI Discussions: March 19, 2007

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This past week was a busy one for the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info ) volunteers and guest blogger Gary Price as they posted the following stories:
Gary’s Posts:

Director of National Security Archive on C-SPAN; Rosemary Award [...]

March 22 - Support Independent Music on iTunes

Thanks to the great business communicators/music lovers over at For Immediate Release, I’ve become aware of a great campaign calculated to show the collective power of podcasters and lovers of independent music.
Here’s the idea from the Bum Rush the Charts blog:
Podcasting gets little respect from traditional media. To them we’re little more than a [...]

Movie Review: Where there is Hatred (1990)

Last night my wife and I watched an hour-long video from the Maryknoll missionaries called Where there is hatred.
The video that looks at three struggles - against Pinochet in Chile, against Marcos in Phillipines, and against Israelis in the West Bank from a non-violent perspective. It’s not totally kid friendly because there [...]

Two very different takes on Second Life

They say there are two sides to every story. This time I’d like to share two very different takes on Second Life and the need to immediately drop what you’re doing and grab an SL account.
First, the “Ignore this at your peril” from business communicator Neville Hobson in his recent post, Second Life: All you [...]

Your personal affairs

Your personal affairs
Originally uploaded by jestaub.
Haven’t read this doc, but wanted to share the cover. Looks like a fun training document. Has anyone read this?