Wired News: Bush Team Prepares Net Assault Regardless of your politics, this article may well foretell the internet as the tool of social influence we’ll see in the future. The key: mobilize a mass of people to communicate a message, not tomorrow, but right now. This means of influence is open to anyone who want to organize it–even the ACS.

What does a barrel of crude oil cost, Alex? Crude went to a record $50 yesterday. According to the NY Times: Fueling these gains is the alignment of three events: record high demand, historically low spare production capacity, and a set of potentially destabilizing events in some of world’s the top oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Venezuela, to name only ...

The New York Times Magazine had a lengthy cover story Sunday about blogging and politics. Bloggers are getting a lot of attention these days because they got involved in both political conventions and because of the take-down of Dan Rather and CBS News over the bogus memos about the president’s National Guard Duty. I guess you could argue blogging has ...

Here’s some excerpts from an article in a from Harvard Business School about achieving some sort of balance between scrutiny of nonprofit organizations and maintaining some degree of freedom from the rigors of compliance. The new forced transparency was triggered by recent abuses by boards in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Now there’s a lot of the usual throwing ...