{"id":340,"date":"2007-05-10T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-01-03T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:30:26","slug":"breakfast-reading-510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/05\/10\/breakfast-reading-510\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast reading 5.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/murdoch-turning-his-empire-green\/2007\/05\/09\/1178390390101.html\">Murdoch turning his empire green<\/a>: &#8216;Although some of his newspapers were once sceptical about global warming, he said that although he was no scientist, he knew how to assess a risk. &#8220;This one is clear. Climate change poses clear,<br \/>\ncatastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can&#8217;t afford the risk of inaction,&#8221; he said.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/content\/2007\/s1918920.htm\">Diggers speak about Iraq ambush<\/a>: Did anyone else see this last night? Its been covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/world\/young-hero-risks-life-for-wounded-mates-in-iraq\/2007\/05\/09\/1178390388566.html\">in the papers<\/a> too. It seemed like something new to me, interviewing soldiers giving accounts of their activities as if they were policeman, sportsmen or celebrity. I can&#8217;t quite work out why I found it so disquieting &#8211; anyone else feel it was inappropriate or different?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200705\/s1919030.htm\">The fine print in the university endowment scheme<\/a>: The Howard government proposes centralised control of universities with a view to privatisation. It has wedge politics written all over it, too. Chilling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnard.edu\/sfonline\/blogs\/nolan_01.htm\" class=\"toc\">Blogging Was Just the Beginning: Women&#8217;s Voices are Louder Online<\/a>: Chris Nolan on political commentary and feminism online. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/\">Doc<\/a>). I hope to get to other articles in S&amp;F Online&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnard.edu\/sfonline\/blogs\/index.htm\">Blogging Feminism<\/a> issue, too.<\/p>\n<p>The SMH ran true to bumbling form (when it comes to its coverage of new media) the other day with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/web\/women-bloggers-blossom\/2007\/05\/07\/1178390224472.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">this &#8216;lesson&#8217;<\/a> about blogging, which conflated the opening question &#8220;Isn&#8217;t blogging just for people who are stupid and lonely?&#8221; with women bloggers, gender inequity and ambivalence in Australia! &#8220;Of the 8000 women&#8217;s blogs listed at BlogHer.org, just 96 are of Australian or New Zealand origin. By comparison Canada, a country with 36 per cent more people, lists 82 per cent more women&#8217;s blogs.&#8221; I think its silly to take membership of BlogHer as a real statistic on the ratio in Australia. I&#8217;m not listed at Blogher, for instance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/\">Doc<\/a>, who always gets a real buzz out of flying and seeing whats below, has some wonderful photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/docsearls\/sets\/72157600185864776\/\">Greenland<\/a> from the air. Check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/docsearls\/\">other sets<\/a> for Scotland, the Hebrides, England and others, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murdoch turning his empire green: &#8216;Although some of his newspapers were once sceptical about global warming, he said that although he was no scientist, he knew how to assess a risk. &#8220;This one is clear. Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. 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