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Montag, 28. Juli 2003 |
| Lone Genius Blogger circa 13th century Mechthild of Magdeburg was a beguine mystic who kept a vernacular diary of her spiritual revelations that was widely circulated by copying out in longhand. She was a blogger in a time before printing and postal service, much less electronic networks, existed.
She journaled her experience including visionary insight into spirituality, love songs and responses to critics who reacted inamicably to the notion of a woman writing about anything, much less faith. She wrote from her 30s until the time of her death.
Her writing is collected in the book 'Flowing light of the Godhead', which contains 267 passages ('posts') from a few lines to a few pages long. What we call blogging is actually a very old form... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] |
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| The Ethiopian Famine Famine is again stalking Ethiopia this time casting a wider shadow. The world needs to address the underlying causes. [New York Times: Opinion] 8:30:54 PM  comment [] |
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Weblogs and political discourse. Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. [via Der Schockwellenreiter] Interesting to see how opinion leaders in the weblog community push towards political relevance of the weblog discourse. Well... seems the whole weblog community wants to be opinion leading somehow... By owrede@khm.de (Oliver Wrede). [owrede_log] |
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No Empire?. From the guy that predicted back in 1976 the demise of the Soviet Union: There will be no an American Empire. Emmanuel Todd (scroll down for another Todd interview) is the author of After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American System". His arguments? economic weakness (debt, massive trade imbalance, internal deficit), and emphasis on military power are signs that US power is in decline. [MetaFilter] 8:12:07 PM comment [] |
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