Posts tagged 'grassroots'

The birth of a logo

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My place of employment, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), recently launched a youth network. Here’s the step-by-step of how we came up with the logo.

I am Time’s Person of the Year, finally

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At 29, I’ve lived longer than Jimi Hedrix, James Dean, and Kurt Cobain. I had almost given up on celebrity, but then I go and get named Time Magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year. All I can say, “It’s about frickin’ time.”

Celebrating OneWebDay

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Today is that grandest of holidays, OneWebDay. Billed as “Earth Day for the Web”, people everywhere thankful for what the world wide web has given us are engaging in little projects to improve and honor it. Here’s what I did…

Snakes on an authenticity crisis

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You may have already heard of Snakes on a Plane, a movie coming out today about one plane and more than one snake. It’s prevalence in the blogosphere has been oft noted by mainstream media. But why? What has caused blogs everywhere to embrace it knowing literally no more than the title and the star?

Fighting dirty over network neutrality

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The telecoms must be scared; they’re already fighting dirty. Consider, if you will, these three news items:

Hands Off the Internet, a “grassroots” website against network neutrality.
Tom Giovanetti’s OpEd in the Mercury News, “Network neutrality? Welcome to the stupid Internet.”
Sen. Ted Stevens’ already infamous “The Internet is a series of tubes” speech.