inCommunicado - eric eggertson

  Red Rorbu - Lofoten Islands, Norway    Originally uploaded by LeeLeFever_TwinF.
I’ve been following Lee and Sachi Lefever’s trip around the world on their The World Is Not Flat site.
Their most recent destination is Norway, with some amazing photos of the fjords and craggy cliffs that drop straight into the water.

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The headline reads "U.S.-backed peace plan fails to stop violence." Guess which decade?

   
1800s - The Missouri Compromise (followed by the U.S.Civil War)
   
1910s - Paris Peace Conference
   
1930s - Proposed quarantine of Japan, Italy, Germany
   
1940s - Yalta Conference and the Truman Doctrine
   
1950s - Free elections for Vietnam
   
1960s - Liberation of Cuba
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  kk Naked on top of the freaking Great Wall of China    Originally uploaded by Robert Scales.
Vancouver web geek and photographer Kris Krug tries out a new kind of Naked Conversation, on the Great Wall of China.  I’m sure there are rules about this sort of thing.  Something about using […]

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  Goth Kid with Contacts, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan    Originally uploaded by LeeLeFever_TwinF.
Late last year, social media consultant Lee Lefever and new (last year, anyway) wife Sachi dropped everything and took off on a trip around the world.
They left Japan recently, and are in Thailand.
Check out their experiences on The World […]

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When North America discovered recycled paper, environmentalism was the only game in town. The media was obsessed with it. Companies were terrified of being labeled a polluter. It was cool to be green.
That passion never waned in Europe and in some parts of North America, but it has been substantially sidetracked  in corporate North America.
Iceland […]

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The huge number of sites adding fund-raising buttons for the tsumanis, earthquakes and hurricanes in the past two years confirm the power of blogs and other sites to enable fund-raising.
Today I came across Blogidarity, an effort to get bloggers to help raise funds for organizations that help people in developing countries. The campaign will choose […]

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The Iranians are renaming Danish Pastries "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad," to protest the Danish editorial cartoons.
This sort of thing can escalate.  Next thing you know, Canada will rename Brazil Nuts: "Rain Forest Nuts" in condemnation of Brazil’s stewardship of the Amazon  basin.
Then Chinese Food will instead be referred to as Oppressed People’s Food […]

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B.C. writer Terry Glavin writes about an anti-war group’s attempt to paint Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan as similar to the U.S. presence in Iraq. Afghan emigres resent the suggestion.
Glavin writes about a wide range of environmental and progressive topics. Check out his blog.

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Ruby Beach Originally uploaded by Lee LeFever.
Regular readers have seen me post to Lee Lefever’s Common Craft blog from time to time. Lee is a consultant helping organizations use social networking tools to accomplish things in a virtual environment that normally would only be possible in person.
Lee recently announced he and wife Sachi […]

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Reporters Without Borders has published The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents (download the PDF) to help people avoid repression in countries that are targeting online activists and commentators..
Thanks to Allan Jenkins for the link.

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With the beginning of hurricane season this year, I thought about Bruce Sterling’s speculative fiction novel Heavy Weather, and its vision of the decay of infrastructure and ethics in the face of the relentless hammering of chaotic weather patterns.
The recent Hurricane Katrina aftermath images from the Gulf Coast and particularly New Orleans looked as if […]

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