[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- One Month Into Sit-In, Chicago Moms Have Become Wonder Women
- Things are looking good for the group of South Side Chicago moms who began a sit-in one month ago to demand a school library for their children. Parents in Pilsen, a largely Hispanic neighborhood on the South Side, began occupying an old field house at Whittier Elementary on September 15 that was slated for demolition by Chicago Public Schools. The moms wanted a library and a safe community gathering place for their children. The school district wanted an empty field (arguing that 160 of Chicago's public schools are without libraries).
- Social Networks Visualizer (SocNetV) – A flexible and user-friendly tool for the analysis and visualization of Social Networks
- [Ubuntu Geek]
- Google Analytics Becomes More Visual with In-Page Analytics
- [ReadWriteWeb - Frederic Lardinois]
It is worth noting that other web analytics providers like ClickTale and Crazy Egg offer a similar feature by providing their users with heat maps that represent clicks on a given area on your site. The concept here is quite similar, though Google Analytics does provide more advanced data than most of these products and is available for free.
- 50 Best Blogs for Women’s Rights
- [Feminist Law Professors - Bridget Crawford]
- Brian Kilmeade sez: ‘Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.’ Oh really?
- Brian Kilmeade, defending Lord Bill O'Reilly from the nefarious Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, gives voice to the basic Fox News view of the world:..
[A rundown, with links, of recent terrorist incidents in the USA that did not involve Muslims. -L]
Just remember: Every time idiots like Kilmeade say crap like this, Osama bin Laden — who envisioned 9/11 as a way to create a war between Islam and the West — pops a champagne cork.
- Gov 2.0 goes local
- [O'Reilly Radar - Alex Howard]
[Long exciting link-o-rama. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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