Democracy Now! | Ex-Marine Josh Rushing on his Journey from Military Mouthpiece to Al Jazeera Correspondent

I really appreciated this interview, and I think it is one of the best exchanges I have seen from Amy Goodman and a guest in some time.

Josh Rushing was featured in the film Control Room (about Al Jazeera) and was subsequently pressured by the military he served loyally for candidly expressing his insights regarding building bridges between the U.S. Military and Al Jazeera, and therefore their viewers. He is now reporting for Al Jazeera's English channel after having resigned his commission.

In addition to the behind the scenes viewpoint of the "highly-produced" briefing "set" that the US used in Iraq, Mr. Rushing also tells about his years as a liaison between the Marines and Hollywood, and some of the censorship that goes on as a result.

Really, a great interview; highly recommended.

Democracy Now! | Ex-Marine Josh Rushing on his Journey from Military Mouthpiece to Al Jazeera Correspondent

Green Maven continues to recieve acolade from industry leaders.

talk about leveraging web 2.0 for sustainability.

green maven continues to get props for its use of google co-op to search the green web. this time it's from the mighty google themself. see google's list here

the brain child of network and technology mastermind (and my dear friend) k.joey shepp, fellow greenMBAers (of which i am an alumnus) and others share a hive-mind for the green web. as greenMaven editor/contributors, we add sites to the search query by tagging them as we surf the web.

early this year, the site was named #9 in TIME's top 25 web sites of 2006, although it had only launched weeks before the endo of the year. that is here:

get a widget (here) for your page and help spread the green web.

"Green Maven makes searching for all things green as easy as using
Google. If you search for socks, you get organic socks. If you search
for cars, you get hybrid cars. Our mission is to make it easy for
mainstream to go green."-Joey Shepp, founder of Green Maven

Web Worker Daily � Blog Archive Zen and the Art of Attention �

Web Worker Daily: Blog Archive Zen and the Art of Attention

"To control your cow, put it in a large pasture."

A great take--counter to conventional wisdom of limiting your intake--on navigating the information overload society. So important to those of us that have our fingers on so many pulses and are trying to influence and contribute to so many different spheres.

An American Self-Portrait

Running the Numbers-An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan

As I put it to my new friend Meri after she passed this along, "Good art is a reflection of light and shadow, literally and figuratively. This artist certainly has a grasp of our shadow." These are visuals of the staggering statistics of consumption in our culture. (The image is a visual representation of the number of cell phones retired in the US DAILY.)



From the artist's website:

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.