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* Need to write a backgrounder article on how web sites always had the potential to allow cross-referencing of news articles and thus to become more like a library, how news web sites (e.g. CNN, Slashdot) fail to use this potential, and how wiki sites enable it. [http://wagnernet.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Slashdot+Demise article arguing that wiki is superior to the e-forum model] | * Need to write a backgrounder article on how web sites always had the potential to allow cross-referencing of news articles and thus to become more like a library, how news web sites (e.g. CNN, Slashdot) fail to use this potential, and how wiki sites enable it. [http://wagnernet.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Slashdot+Demise article arguing that wiki is superior to the e-forum model] | ||
* Perhaps a page on [[lessons to learn from history]], starting with [http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp how Hitler rose to power] in a Democratic country even though his party were very much in the minority | * Perhaps a page on [[lessons to learn from history]], starting with [http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp how Hitler rose to power] in a Democratic country even though his party were very much in the minority | ||
* http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html has a number of opinions on other issues regarding which I didn't happen to be working on pages at the time I was reading it, but which should later be mined (yes, I use a lot of Brin quotes and links on this site -- because he's one of the few really rich sources of cogent arguments I've been able to find, on either side of the political spectrum -- though I do plan to pay [http://hatrack.com/ Orson Scott Card] (and [http://ornery.com The Ornery American]) a visit, when time permits.) | * http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html has a number of opinions on other issues regarding which I didn't happen to be working on pages at the time I was reading it, but which should later be mined (yes, I use a lot of Brin quotes and links on this site -- because he's one of the few really rich sources of cogent arguments I've been able to find, on either side of the political spectrum -- though I do plan to pay [http://hatrack.com/ Orson Scott Card] (and [http://ornery.com The Ornery American]) a visit, when time permits.) | ||
* '''2005-09-30''' Scenario for Morality Quiz: A deadly natural disaster (hurricane, tsunami, whatever) is about to strike. A man goes swimming in the ocean, despite all warnings to leave town and especially to stay away from the water. He is arrested by the police. Is this right, or wrong? (Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007328) | * '''2005-09-30''' Scenario for Morality Quiz: A deadly natural disaster (hurricane, tsunami, whatever) is about to strike. A man goes swimming in the ocean, despite all warnings to leave town and especially to stay away from the water. He is arrested by the police. Is this right, or wrong? (Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007328) | ||