{"id":896,"date":"2008-01-10T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/01\/10\/daily-diigo-public-link-01112008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:40:00","slug":"daily-diigo-public-link-01112008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/01\/10\/daily-diigo-public-link-01112008\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Diigo Public Link 01\/11\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='title'><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php?\/site\/article\/4216\">In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse | spiked<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"LinkItem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/forward_proxy?_ff=lampertina&amp;_fk=fe0c268f3b65b52369b9709377160ab0&amp;url_id=1f9ec1468ed63b7125f43b16b2197773&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiked-online.com%2Findex.php%3F%2Fsite%2Farticle%2F4216\">Annotated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/apocalypse'>apocalypse<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/criticalthinking'>criticalthinking<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/frank_furedi'>frank_furedi<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/opinion'>opinion<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/political_correctness'>political_correctness<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/public_opinion'>public_opinion<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/spiked_online'>spiked_online<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='description'>The issues that Furedi raise have been bugging me for a couple of years now &#8212; ever since running into James Kunstler and his ueber-successful economic project of making a living off scaring the pants off people.  I find refreshing Furedi&#8217;s spin on the matter &#8212; that we seem to be losing &#8220;humanism&#8221; (in what I feel is a medievalist world view), and I appreciate his lament that &#8220;Public figures appear to have lost the capacity to reassure or lead people.&#8221;  Disaster sells, including at the polls\/ in the voting booth.  <\/p>\n<p class='title'><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/urban-mapping-free-neighborhood-api.html\">Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities'>cities<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mapping_apps'>mapping_apps<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/neighbourhoods'>neighbourhoods<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/software'>software<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanplanning'>urbanplanning<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='description'>The resurfacing (as in coming up, not getting paved over!) of neighbourhoods&#8230;  Interesting comments thread, too, re. the &#8220;free&#8221; aspect.<br \/>\nAll for the US at this point, Canada seems out of the loop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse | spiked&nbsp;&nbsp;Annotated tags: apocalypse, criticalthinking, frank_furedi, opinion, political_correctness, public_opinion, spiked_online The issues that Furedi raise have been bugging me for a couple of years now &#8212; ever since running into James Kunstler and his ueber-successful economic project of making a living off scaring the pants off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}