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conversation matters: Where Knowledge Management Has Been and Where It Is Going- Part Three
Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
Situations intends to address the current malaise of the radical imagination in both left theory and in popular consciousness. We aim to explore the social conditions and lived experiences that lead to this malaise and to support explanations which do not reduce political phenomena to a reflection. Situations will foster modes of thinking that recognize the creative role that society plays in its own production. In opposition to simple determinisms, Situations will attempt to show the contingencies and peculiarities of political phenomena.
Cites & Insights 9:5 - Thinking about Blogging
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There are a few vehicles that
I know of that preserve these conversational contexts to varying degrees. Cites
& Insights is one of them (and the one that I think defines the genre
I’m imagining), Uncontrolled Vocabulary is sometimes another, This Week In
LibraryBlogLand will be a third if it ever resurrects, and the now-defunct Carnival
of the InfoSciences was often a fourth. Each of these gathers together the
posts of others and strings them into some sort of narrative about contemporary
issues in librarianship. But each also has its weakness as a Preserver of
Zeitgeist. Cites & Insights preserves the issues that interested
Walt, for example, and Uncontrolled Vocabulary preserves issues that
Greg deems newsworthy. These foci are necessary and by no means a fault, but it
leaves me wishing that more people had the time, energy, inclination, and
ability to take on the task of this kind of preservation so that more pieces of
the internet conversation would get named, recorded and preserved. -
Here’s what I also found necessary to say,
after noting that two of the four zeitgeist-preserver mentioned are either
moribund or defunct (and a third has since gone dark): “Weaving these things
together is actual work, and unless you’re a little strange (like the proprietor
of Cites & Insights), it may not be particularly rewarding work. The
group of half a dozen library ezine/newsletter publishers that was briefly
COWLZ is now down to...well, one.” If I was sensible, either financially or in
a desire to build the kind of reputation that leads to fame etc. (e.g.,
narrowly defined expertise), C&I would not exist. Weaving together
informal zeitgeist preservation is not only hard work, it’s unusually
thankless: the standard response is that you’re just copying what other people
said.So, no, I don’t really expect to see other similar ejournals
popping up all over the place. And I’m going to try to ignore any
“responsibility” for preserving the zeitgeist.
Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
These simple commands can be combined to quickly answer the kinds of questions for which most people would turn to a database, if only the data were already in a database. You can quickly (often in seconds) form and test hypotheses about virtually any record oriented data source.
Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive » Deconstructing Analysis Techniques
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: The Two Progressivisms
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The first type of progressivism has its philosophical underpinnings in 18th Century, Enlightement-era thought. It believes that politics is a battle of ideas. It further believes that through the use of reason and the exchange of ideas, human society will tend to improve itself through scientific and technological innovation. Hence, it believes in progress, and for this reason lays claim to the term “progressive”. Because of its belief and optimism in the faculties of human reason, I refer to this philosophy as rational progressivism.
Rational progressivism tends to be trusting, within reason, of status quo political and economic institutions -- generally including the institution of capitalism. It tends to trust these institutions because it believes they are a manifestation of progress made by previous generations. -
The second type of progressivism is what I call radical progressivism. It represents, indeed, a much more radical and comprehensive critique of the status quo, which it tends to see as intrinsically corrupt. Its philosophical tradition originates in 19th Century thought -- and specifically, owes a great deal to the Marxist critique of capitalism and the Marxist theory of social change. It also finds inspiration in both the radical movement of the 1960s and the labor and social movements of late 19th and early 20th centuries (from which it borrows the label "progressive").
Radical progressivism is more clearly distinguishable from "conventional" liberalism and would generally be associated with the "far left" -- although on a handful of issues such as free trade, it may find common cause with the "radical" right. Radical progressivism embraces the tradition of populism and frequently adopts a discourse of the virtuous commoner organizing against the corrupt elite.
Should Environmentalists Fear Cass Sunstein? - Environment and Energy
To correct this imbalance, the next president should issue an executive order reforming how OIRA conducts its business. IPI has released a set of needed reforms to achieve balanced cost-benefit analyses. Reforms include increasing transparency, reviewing deregulation and agency inaction, ensuring that costs of regulation are not overestimated, and taking distributional effects into account. All of these changes would signal President Obama’s commitment to a more reasonable and just system of regulation. Sunstein’s appointment makes clear that Obama wants change at OIRA—he is too talented to be wasted in a business-as-usual role in the next administration. But the task of reforming cost-benefit analysis, removing its biases, and reforging it into a neutral tool for sound policymaking, all while promoting a strong regulatory agenda in a time of economic crisis, will not be easy.
Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Trouble
Garrett Epps has a very interesting article in The Atlantic making the case that the presidency is simply a poorly designed office as currently conceived
Full Metal Meltdown: The Shifting of the Poles | The Agonist
American politics realigned in the election of 1968. This era of Nixon centered around four polar politics: a left, a right, and two middle movements, one of which, the more active, was an ideological moderate movement which was aligned to the right. The natural progression was the preservation of the liberal state by conservative means. On a Presidential level, this meant alternating between radical Republicans, and conservative Democrats, while keeping a largely spendthrift Congress in place.
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TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads ASCII/ANSI texts (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files.
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