The challenge to bloggers is to create the worlds we would prefer to live in. To express, to find the conflicts associated with, the deep human values we want emphasized in the world at large. We need more character and life-affirming values ... Mainstream Media's inability to see the Forest through the Trees Michael Schaefer: reflects on a success of the imagination
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In America, the first major study of web diaries reveals that they are shaping the political landscape like never before, but what of their British counterparts? Owen Gibson investigates
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