Reuters - North Korea has threatened to end all relations with South Korea, a major supplier of aid and cash to the impoverished state, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, quoting official North Korean media. more
Thu Oct 16 06:12am WST
Reuters - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off in their final debate on Wednesday, with McCain needing a strong performance to begin to turn around a White House race that could be slipping away. more
Thu Oct 16 06:08am WST
Reuters - Talks to ease the conflict over Georgia's Moscow-backed breakaway regions were suspended until next month on Wednesday after diplomats failed to get Russia and Georgia to agree on who was allowed to take part. more
Thu Oct 16 05:40am WST
I ve now set up an Eventbrite page for the Improv Arvo on Saturday November 1st 3pm-6pm - so go there to register. As we say, no agenda or objective apart from having some fun and playing games - just a chance to stretch our co-creative limbs. And thanks to Julian Burton for providing his stu more
Fri Oct 10 05:51pm WST
Chris Corrigan has a very useful post on action planning in open space . He offers a free pdf describing three different approaches to helping steer people from lively discussion to practical action. It s horses for courses of course. But I m temperamentally quite inclined to Chris approach w more
Fri Oct 10 02:53am WST
I ve been having a few conversations recently with Adriana . She s been doing a lot of heavy conceptual thinking about where the web is taking us. It s hard to keep up sometimes but it feels pretty important. This post is probably not an accurate guide to her ideas, more an effort on my part to m more
Fri Oct 10 02:22am WST
(The Real Deal) Could The Economist have been any clearer in its opinion of the Iraq Study Group Report? (Lead story here .) In an unorthodox move, the magazine even converted its cover into an unabashed editorial. The publication might have had an allergic reaction to the ISG, but the larger more
by Chris Maynard In the 2006 World Press Photo competition for best news photographs of 2005, Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News won first place for People In The News: Stories with his essay Final Salute , about a group of Marines who deal with the families of Colorado Marines killed in a more
(In reviewing the year just past, this post is the second in a series in which Chris Maynard and I analyze some of the winners of the 2006 World Press Photo contest.) (click for full size) Over the couple years The BAG and The BAG Community have been looking at pictures together, I ve held more