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Good Bye
Today is my last day at Beliefnet (which I co-founded in 1999). The swirling emotions: sadness, relief, love, humility, pride, anxiety.
But mostly deep, deep gratitude.
How many people get to come up with an idea and have rich people invest money to make it a reality? How many people get to create
posted 8:37:24am Nov. 20, 2009 |
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"Steven Waldman Named To Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media In a Changing Technological Landscape" (FCC Press Release)
STEVEN WALDMAN NAMED TO LEAD COMMISSION EFFORT ON FUTURE OF MEDIA IN A CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced today the appointment of Steven Waldman, a highly respected internet entrepreneur and journalist, to lead an agency-wide initiative to assess the state o
posted 11:46:42am Oct. 29, 2009 |
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My Big News
Dear Readers,
This is the most difficult (and surreal) post I've had to write. I'm leaving Beliefnet, the company I co-founded in 1999.
In mid November, I'll be stepping down as President and Editor in Chief to lead a project on the future of the media for the Federal Communications Commission, the
posted 1:10:11pm Oct. 28, 2009 |
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"Beliefnet Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Steps Down to Lead FCC Future of the Media Initiative" (Beliefnet Press Release)
October 28, 2009
BELIEFNET CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STEPS DOWN TO LEAD FCC FUTURE OF THE MEDIA INITIATIVE
New York, NY - October 28, 2009 - Beliefnet, the leading online community for inspiration and faith, announced today that Steven Waldman, co-founder, president and editor-in-chief, will re
posted 1:05:43pm Oct. 28, 2009 |
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Secularizing the Cross (Christian Activists: Be Careful What You Wish For)
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week, in Buono v. Salazar, about whether a white 6 1/2 foot cross can be displayed in a national park as a tribute to World War I soldiers. Though it's depicted as a classic clash of the secular and the religious, it actually illustrates why Christian act
posted 1:15:51pm Oct. 08, 2009 |
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posted October 31, 2008 at 7:54 pm
The CNN’s Rick Sanchez and McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb on whether Obama hangs out with anti-semites is a typical Republican smear. It is about time the media are pressing people.
McCain donated money to the same individual that the Republicans are using against Obama.
The US deregulation of the banking and futures trading (credit default swaps) has caused a major international financial crisis.
All the people that were negative about Obama’s trip to Europe and his speech in Berlin do not understand that we live in a global economy.
A large number of people also do not understand that we are just starting to feel the effects of the economic crisis.
[strong]100 Year Crash: McCain adviser spurred $62 trillion derivatives market that will swamp global markets[/strong]
Lurking in the background of the collapse of two of Wall Street’s biggest names, is a $62 trillion segment of the $450 trillion market for derivatives that grew huge thanks to McCain’s chief economic adviser, Phil “Americans are Whiners” Gramm. In Dec 2000, Gramm, while a US Senator, snuckin a 262-page amendment CFMA to a government re-authorization bill (11,000 pages) that created what is now the $62 trillion market for credit default swaps
http://tinyurl.com/56rkcb
Paul Krugman: Phil Gramm could cause next Great Depression
http://tinyurl.com/4twh4f (video)
McCain has not repudiated reports that Gramm is on the shortlist to become Treasury secretary if McCain is elected, even after Gramm labeled America “a nation of whiners”
Gramm was always Wall Street’s man in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during the Clinton administration, he consistently underfunded the Securities and Exchange Commission and kept it from stopping accounting firms from auditing corporations with which they had conflicts of interest.
http://tinyurl.com/4md5dx