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Stephen Downes highlights his Guide of Logical Fallacies site. This brought to mind a recent Rocketboom segment on the same topic. Great for those the visually-inclined. George Dubya and his administrators feature quite a bit. I have to admit I have been guilty of some of these fallacies. I’ll try to avoid them. (Direct link.)
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Four years ago, when I was a student in Melbourne, I took the opportunity to participate in the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance.
Wynnie, who is currently studying in Melbourne (something about me and that city), attended the Dawn Service this morning. She reflects:
although i’m not australian, it wasn’t difficult to share the same appreciation and recognition for the anzac forces, especially those involved in ww2. we were fighting the same adversary and in suffering under the same enemy, experiences merged. my materal grandfather was tortured by the japanese soldiers when they delt out their infamous kempeitai torture on him. in his hallucinatory moments before passing on, he imagined that japanese soldiers were still after him. in that extent, i can identity with australians whose loved ones were held captive as prisoners-of-war during the japanese occupation.
I wrote a post at yesterday.sg, reflecting on my personal connection with ANZAC Day. Siva, thanks for jogging my memory.
Lest we forget.
Photos Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance and ANZAC Day Parade, Melbourne 2007 by Wynnie | ANZAC Day Commemorations in Singapore and other countries by New Zealand Defence Force (via Alvin Wong)
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Similar PostsWas waiting the whole weekend for this to be released in an embed-able format. Rocketboom is a tech/social commentary video podcast helmed by Joanne Colan. (She looks better than how she appears in the ill- timed screenshot.) In this Earth Day special, she unwraps an overly packaged item in order to make a statement about the products we buy.
You can also check out a previous Rocketboom story about plastic bags.
Over at Metroblogging SG, micamonkey reflects about Bring Your Own Bag Day, highlighting how we have to battle the ill effects of another overly successful government campaign. Ironically, such a campaign to reverse the trend will not work as thoroughly in this day because of the diversification of media outlets. (I’d love to be proved wrong though!) It’ll take plenty of grassroots effort, publicity, education and probably a few changes in environmental policy and legislation too.
We’ve got a long way to go. Hopefully, we’ll get there.
Happy belated Earth Day!
Read “Say no to plastic bags.” at Habitatnews. If the links look too daunting, just scroll to the posters at the end. Food for thought.
P.S. It’s not Save the Earth. It’s Save Humankind. The earth will long outlast humans after we pollute/nuke/fight ourselves to kingdom come. The cockroaches inherit the earth.
Original photo by Wynnie, from here, used with permission
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Similar PostsIn my feeds this morning, a post from the P65 blog arrived. Yet another speech reproduced verbatim. I was compelled to write this comment. It’s currently under moderation, so I will reproduce it here, in case it disappears into the ether. It’s been published, and I await a response.
Hi there,
This comment goes out to all the P65 MPs.
I’ve been following this blog for a while, and I have to say that I am disappointed.
A blog is a very different medium as compared to print. Arguably, it is different from a plain-vanilla website, which has limited scope for interactivity.
Blogging is not about reproducing your speeches verbatim. Your time is precious. So too, is your readers’ time. Yes, you can (and should) archive your speeches.
I urge you to go beyond this. I’m sure you are aware of NMP Siew Kum Hong’s blog. He also reproduces his speeches and questions in parliament. But he does more than that: he adds value.
He summarises his speeches. He writes about what he wants to ask and the reasons he wants to do so. He talks about what he wishes he could do better. He puts his mind on his blog.
When I read his blog, I admit I don’t read it word for word. But I am compelled to do so sometimes. He gives me reason to want to read. Most importantly, I get a sense of who he is.
Many serious bloggers comment on other blogs. This is something many bloggers advocate to get conversations going and to build a readership community. I don’t expect you to do this as you have full-time jobs and families.
Here you have a tool - the same tool as Siew Kum Hong, the same tool as any blogger - which you can leverage on. Make this blog truly yours. It says “It’s where we talk” on this blog. So, have a conversation with us. Don’t make speeches here. Bridge the affective divide.
UPDATE Just read Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog by Tom Johnson via Lifehack.org. Good advice for anyone who’s serious about blogging.
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Keep your perspective; after all, things really could be worse, and it might even get worse.
Yup, it could.
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