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Alan and I are off

Alan and I are off to the 2004 World Congress, June 2004, in Albertville, France of The Association for Social Economics. The Society

...was established in December 1941 in Washington, DC. ASE was formed to advance scholarly research and writing about the great questions of economics, human dignity, ethics, and philosophy. Members seek to explore the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis, along with the individual and social dimensions of economic problems, and to help shape economic policy that is consistent with the integral values of the person and a humane community.

We have two papers:

"The University in the 21st Century: Oakeshott, Galbraith and the Social Economy of 'Globalism'" in Session 7 A 'Knowledge and Culture' at 14:00-16:00, on Thursday, June 10, in the Hotel Million, Conference Room          

and

"Consumerism, Community and Citizenship" in Session 2 B 'Rationality in Context' at 10:30-12:30, on Thursday, June 9, in the Hotel Million, Audubon Room

Broadcatching: the RSS-ification of television news

Jon Udell has had a lot of interesting stuff up recently. His adugio blog ideas are interesting for us - and this really makes you think?

A Webjay user named Brett Singer has been conducting an interesting experiment: a playlist of daily news clips. (Like all Webjay playlists, it can be subscribed in RSS.) I heard recently that TV remains the primary news source for three-fourths of Americans. Can that possibly still be true? I never watch TV news. But this new clip feed might change that, at least a little. TV has the resources to do things like take you to the North Pole to see and hear a scientist evaluate the melting ice pack, and a military analyst discuss the implications of an ice-free northwest passage. I won't watch something like that on CBS's schedule, and I won't even watch it on TiVo's schedule (since TiVo doesn't have the granularity for named two-minute segments), but I might find two minutes to watch it on RSS's schedule.