blogs and websites

Very interesting POV on the emerging situation in Greece. Amazing that the soon-to-be ex-government cancelled the referendum after a meeting with the Troika, I wonder how far off a military coup is, given the reorganization of the military and the disregard...

Reading some blogs today...this one struck my fancy http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_collapse6.php "Collapse". and a listing of international conferences. Iliked this list of keynote speaker abstracts: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/transmission/docs/transmission%20keynote%20abstracts.pdf...

For the last month I have been getting back into the swing of things as the summer winds down. It has been crazy busy at work. We are getting ready for a new software launch with training materials, promotional videos, and power point slides all needing...

It never ceases to amaze me what people are doing with maps and cartography. I loved this blog.... Mediated Cityscapes 03: DIY Cartography [Theory] [Eric Fischer / Locals and Tourists #45 (GTWA #133): Los Angeles and Pasadena / 2010] A month ago in Minneapolis,...

Reading the news about the "debt deal" in particular the CNN report about the impact on higher education angered me. While wars and defense spending will continue unchecked, graduate students like me take the hit. We are often displaced workers, people...

A picture is worth a thousand words. I think this graphic captures the essence of Northern Virginia and the core business of the Washington Metropolitan Area in all its glory. The picture came from the Project for the Old American Century website. Comic...

I thought this was the best website about Wuhan with good links and the Wuhan interactive map. Wuhan is a facinating place...a part of the sustainable cities program at the global scale. Recently the city implemented price controls to contain escalating...

I think this analysis is great. William Frey the demographer has also written about the new census.He addresses among other things the impact of immigration on population. The US Census of course has written its own series of white papers and has a very...

I liked this movie when I saw it last year. I found the review on a blog space and fiction, project to collaboratively map geographies of fiction including film. Another site, Canadian cinematographic territories is a collaborative mapping: "In this research...

The article reposted below I think gets at some of the factors that make a new and different kind of fascism a distinct possiblity. The author relies on the classical Marxcist definition of fascism and links it to the proccesses of neoliberalization and...