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    <title>Random Stuff: Media, Games, Wind, Coal and psychology</title>
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    <published>2007-02-20T08:08:49-05:00</published>
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    <author>
      <name>Aldon Hynes</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>From time to time, my email box gets over run with things that I really want to spend time reading and then writing long blog posts about, but I just don’t get the time.  There are a few different things like this piling up right now, so here is my latest collection of random stuff.</p>
<h4>New England News Forum</h4>
<p>The <a href=http://www.newenglandnews.org>New England News Forum</a> is now public and planning their <a href=http://www.newenglandnews.org/conference>first conference</a>.  Robert Cox of the <a href=http://www.mediabloggers.org>Media Bloggers Association</a> and I will be leading a fun wrap up session entitled, “From DC courts to NH campaigns: Has blogging gone mainstream media?”.</p>
<h4>NPAP's Conference on Politics and Paranoia</h4>
<p>The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in collaboration with a lot of other groups is presenting a conference, Politics and Paranoia, The Political Exploitation of Paranoid Anxiety.  If you don’t attend, something really bad could happen to you.</p>
<p>For more information check out <a href=http://naap.org/conference/overbyFront.pdf> http://naap.org/conference/overbyFront.pdf</a></p>
<h4>Games for Change</h4>
<p>On a mailing list of people interested in <a href=http://www.gamesforchange.org/>Games for Change</a>, I found two things jumping out at me.  First is from Robert Steele, whom I first ran into as part of the <a href=http://www.greaterdemocracy.org>Greater Democracy</a> community.  He has a group called, the <a href=www.earth-intelligence.net>Earth Intelligence Network</a>.  They also link to Tom Atlee’s <a href=http://www.co-intelligence.org/>Co-Intelligence Institute</a>.  I need to go out and see what both groups are up to these days.</p>
<p>The second thing that jumped out at me was a blog post by Jason Ellis.  I don’t know anything about Jason, other than what he’s written in his email.  He mentions that he was a student of Amy Bruckman’s.  That is a name from my past.  I think I ran into Amy at the first <a href=http://aoir.org/>Association of Internet Researchers</a> conference in Kansas several years ago.  I knew of her work from my earlier days of MOOs.  Who knows.  Maybe I even met Jason there.</p>
<p>Anyway, he has a blog entry entitled <a href=http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/its-only-fun-when-you-aint-learning/>It’s Only Fun When You Ain’t Learning</a>.  It looks like a blog entry that I want to go back, read in detail, follow the links, etc.  Maybe by adding a note here, I’ll be more likely to get around to that.</p>
<h4>Wind vs. Coal</h4>
<p>Tara Lohan has an interesting article on <a href=http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47997/>AlterNet</a>on Wind and Coal in West Virginia.  I fired off an email to <a href=http://360.yahoo.com/beth_blog>Bethe Wellington</a>, whom I met through the National Conference on Media Reform.  She writes a lot on this subject and I was sure she would have some useful additional information.</p>
<p>She starts off her email by pointing me to a campaign to <a href=http://action.earthjustice.org/stopmtr/advocacy/beth_blog-985957>stop mountain top removal</a>.  Note to self:  Link this into <a href=http://change.org>Change.org</a> as well.</p>
<p>She also links to the <a href=http://www.ohvec.org/index.html>Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition</a>, another leader in the fight against mountain top removal.  The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition has a lot of links to renewable resources.  Beth talks of the support for wind farms, but owned and run by locals.</p>
<p>Lohan’s article is long and it has already attracted over 150 comments.  It is well worth reading and thinking about all the different viewpoints presented.</p>
<p>Well, that’s my collection of random stuff for right now.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>From time to time, my email box gets over run with things that I really want to spend time reading and then writing long blog posts about, but I just don’t get the time.  There are a few different things like this piling up right now, so here is my latest collection of random stuff.</p>
<h4>New England News Forum</h4>
<p>The <a href=http://www.newenglandnews.org>New England News Forum</a> is now public and planning their <a href=http://www.newenglandnews.org/conference>first conference</a>.  Robert Cox of the <a href=http://www.mediabloggers.org>Media Bloggers Association</a> and I will be leading a fun wrap up session entitled, “From DC courts to NH campaigns: Has blogging gone mainstream media?”.</p>
<h4>NPAP's Conference on Politics and Paranoia</h4>
<p>The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in collaboration with a lot of other groups is presenting a conference, Politics and Paranoia, The Political Exploitation of Paranoid Anxiety.  If you don’t attend, something really bad could happen to you.</p>
<p>For more information check out <a href=http://naap.org/conference/overbyFront.pdf> http://naap.org/conference/overbyFront.pdf</a></p>
<h4>Games for Change</h4>
<p>On a mailing list of people interested in <a href=http://www.gamesforchange.org/>Games for Change</a>, I found two things jumping out at me.  First is from Robert Steele, whom I first ran into as part of the <a href=http://www.greaterdemocracy.org>Greater Democracy</a> community.  He has a group called, the <a href=www.earth-intelligence.net>Earth Intelligence Network</a>.  They also link to Tom Atlee’s <a href=http://www.co-intelligence.org/>Co-Intelligence Institute</a>.  I need to go out and see what both groups are up to these days.</p>
<p>The second thing that jumped out at me was a blog post by Jason Ellis.  I don’t know anything about Jason, other than what he’s written in his email.  He mentions that he was a student of Amy Bruckman’s.  That is a name from my past.  I think I ran into Amy at the first <a href=http://aoir.org/>Association of Internet Researchers</a> conference in Kansas several years ago.  I knew of her work from my earlier days of MOOs.  Who knows.  Maybe I even met Jason there.</p>
<p>Anyway, he has a blog entry entitled <a href=http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/its-only-fun-when-you-aint-learning/>It’s Only Fun When You Ain’t Learning</a>.  It looks like a blog entry that I want to go back, read in detail, follow the links, etc.  Maybe by adding a note here, I’ll be more likely to get around to that.</p>
<h4>Wind vs. Coal</h4>
<p>Tara Lohan has an interesting article on <a href=http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47997/>AlterNet</a>on Wind and Coal in West Virginia.  I fired off an email to <a href=http://360.yahoo.com/beth_blog>Bethe Wellington</a>, whom I met through the National Conference on Media Reform.  She writes a lot on this subject and I was sure she would have some useful additional information.</p>
<p>She starts off her email by pointing me to a campaign to <a href=http://action.earthjustice.org/stopmtr/advocacy/beth_blog-985957>stop mountain top removal</a>.  Note to self:  Link this into <a href=http://change.org>Change.org</a> as well.</p>
<p>She also links to the <a href=http://www.ohvec.org/index.html>Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition</a>, another leader in the fight against mountain top removal.  The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition has a lot of links to renewable resources.  Beth talks of the support for wind farms, but owned and run by locals.</p>
<p>Lohan’s article is long and it has already attracted over 150 comments.  It is well worth reading and thinking about all the different viewpoints presented.</p>
<p>Well, that’s my collection of random stuff for right now.<br />
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