Fixes, Moving, and More

by TheLiberative June 25, 2010SiteNews

I have not posted since April 8th. I realized that I needed to clean up the code that runs the site, and I also have been making a decision about whether to move myself to a new home on the other side of the country. It's been a busy time, with a lot of uncertainty. [...]

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My Copyright Policy is Updated

by TheLiberative April 8, 2010Policies

It's admin time again, this time for this site's policy for handling legal questions.
Most issues involving the law will be concerning how this site or its commenters use copyrighted material owned by others, or related questions involving intellectual property.
It is always my intent to use the copyrighted material of others in ways that abide by [...]

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Updates for Graphics, Sphere of Joy

by TheLiberative April 5, 2010Actions

I have completed a substantial but still partial update of the Sphere of Joy article. Quite a bit more text will eventually be posted there, but I wanted to get something up in the meantime.
I also revised all three of the major graphics for the Sphere of Joy, the Sphere of Peace, and the Sphere [...]

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Updated: Everyday Actions Article

by TheLiberative March 31, 2010Actions

I have published an extensive update to the article Everyday Actions and Consequences. I've added further commentary in the Overview section, but the main addition is in further details on a couple of important points.
First is a discussion of whether someone who believes he is doing the right thing in a given situation actually is [...]

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New Terms of Service

by TheLiberative March 30, 2010SiteNews

I know, I know: it's about time that I got the legal stuff out of the way.
Today I am publishing the initial draft of the Terms of Service that govern this website. If you would like to comment on this agreement and perhaps suggest changes to improve it, please do leave a comment below or, [...]

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New Service — Topsy Retweeting

by TheLiberative March 29, 2010SiteNews

The Topsy Search and Retweeting service is now providing retweeting on TheLiberative.com.
Where Google Search scans documents throughout the web when you ask it to search for something, Topsy Search will scan through tweets, retweets, and other social notes and postings to bring you time-based search results from the world of the social web.
On TheLiberative.com, Topsy's [...]

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Mind the GapMinder!

by TheLiberative March 23, 2010Change

Michael Totten has found a TED presentation by Professor Rosling of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. Rosling has begun an effort to gather and make available all sorts of data about the people and countries of the world, and his efforts so far are just beautiful. He obviously has an artistic eye for graphing data. He also [...]

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Tagged as: Change, DataSets, Demographics, Forecasting, Health, SocioEconomics

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TheLiberative.com is on Your Phone

by TheLiberative March 22, 2010SiteNews

I thought I was going to have to spend a lot of effort to create a mobile phone version of my website. Fortunately, I discovered a Wordpress plugin by BraveNewCode.com.
The plugin is called WPtouch. I've posted to their forum a few times on some questions I had or features I would like to see. The [...]

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Come Play With the Futurists!

by TheLiberative March 21, 2010Books

See the future through the eyes of experts. Check out my new page at Looking Forward with the Experts, where I link to articles by Walter Russell Mead, provide a bit of a profile for Ray Kurzweil, give you the URL for the US Census Bureau's International Database where you can play with animated [...]

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Published: Two Great Recipes

by TheLiberative March 20, 2010Food

Today I am publishing something on the lighter side. I've created a Food section on the site and posted my two best recipes. One is simply the best chocolate sauce you will ever enjoy. The other is a very tasty frozen fruit and nut mud pie that you make with a juicer. Both recipes are [...]

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Published: Everyday Actions

by TheLiberative March 19, 2010Actions

I have just published the first draft of Everyday Actions and Consequences.
This article is a fairly general introduction to the subject of how choices are made real in the world by selecting actions that are consistent with the choice made. What you choose constrains the set of actions you could take. When you select and [...]

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Published: Everyday Choices

by TheLiberative March 18, 2010Choices

I'm pleased to say that I have published a new article, on Everyday Desires and Choices.
This is the first of several pages that I am posting and developing over the next couple of weeks, all designed to set the foundation for a large number of future discussions.
This article takes a detailed look at the three [...]

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Kachinglers!

by TheLiberative March 8, 2010SiteNews

Kachingle.com provides a simple and convenient system for supporting the internet sites you know and love.
If you join the Kachingle community, you can support TheLiberative.com and a growing number of other sites, just by making one automatic payment a month.
Once you have Kachingled a site (like TheLiberative.com), every time thereafter that you visit that site, [...]

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A New Post on a New Host

by TheLiberative March 7, 2010SiteNews

I have had to switch to a new webhosting company over the last few days. I'm now at Bluehost.com. So far, I'm happy with their services.
Unfortunately, due to possible problems with my old site’s database and files, I have had to rebuild everything from a blank slate here on Bluehost. This means that none of [...]

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