This is where it all begins. Now you knew this one wasn’t just going to slide on through right?
Daily Women’s Health Policy
International News | Catholic Church Collecting Signatures for Referendum on Mexico City Bill That Would Allow Abortion During First Three Months’ Gestation
[Apr 19, 2007]
The Roman Catholic Church has gathered about 32,000 of the 36,900 signatures needed to request a referendum on a Mexico City bill that [see entire entry...]

To: News21 Guest Speakers
From: Don Lattin, Bob Calo and the UC Berkeley Fellows
Subject: Circle of Spiritual Commentators
We would like to thank all of you for taking the time to speak to our journalism class this semester at the University of California, Berkeley. As we look forward to the summer, our project on
“God, Sex and Family” now shifts from the learning phase to the reporting and production phases of our experiment.
You may recall that one of [see entire entry...]

We shouldn’t be using shared logins. We should all have accounts at each of the sites, like a normal person. Then create/join groups or use some common tags to organize our stuff. This is a tool for organizing. But not *only* using one tag like “news21″, but also with tags that actually helps organize it, classify it. Like we did for del.icio.us … just use the service, give it [see entire entry...]

I don’t know if folks have been tracking this story at all, but how in the world can you ban an “AntiChrist” coming into your country? Regardless, it’s newsworthy and I think it’s worth us covering in some way or another.
Here’s a quick take on it:
“GUATEMALA - Three Central American governments have banned a man claiming to be the Antichrist from entering their countries, outraged by his inflammatory preaching against the Catholic Church and [see entire entry...]

Second Life never ceases to amaze me. To mourn the Virginia Tech deaths people were mourning at 8pm yesterday on SL.
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/04/17/second-life-educators-mourn-together/
I did not attend, but I’m wondering if there was a religious component to it. I imagine there was and if it’s intriguing and inspiring how people create community and express religious faith using the technology available to them.

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Ah, Second Life marches on to the rhythm of yet another hectic drum. Here’s some headlines, but the hard part is how do we make it relate back to religion?
Big Spenders of Second Life
BusinessWeek - USA
Alyssa LaRoche is rolling in Linden dollars, the hard currency of virtual world Second Life. Sure, the money is digital, but it can be exchanged for real US …
Baptist adds second Life Flight helicopter
Jacksonville Business Journal - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Life Flight 2 [see entire entry...]

From Al’s Morning Multimedia:
Think of it as a YouTube for Christianity.
ABC’s “Nightline” even featured it last week.
And Wired.com pipes in.

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7 a.m. on a Saturday morning is early enough that the regular entrance to my local Walgreen’s isn’t open yet. Instead, you have to walk through the exit door, passing the security guard on your way in so he can keep track of who is in the store.
Fine, no big deal. I just wanted to grab some cat food and get on with my day. But the security guard needed to know something first. [see entire entry...]

It is t-minus five days after Easter, yet the Easter Bunny lives on inside my refrigerator.
She is a cheerful Victorian-era critter wearing a flowered dress who enjoys doing any number of normally human activities; pushing a pram full of eggs, playing ball with other bunnies, or even playing the trumpet. I know that her likeness graces an individually wrapped square of particularly sweet dark chocolate, but I can’t take my eyes off of the bunny.
This [see entire entry...]

News21
Raymond Yee
April 11, 2007
Minutes
I. Mixing and re-mixing info
A. iSchool course
1. project based course about how you combine and re-combine info
2. he’s a data architect
- he’s writing a book about mash-ups
- he’s putting out a share alike 2.5 license and it would be shared
3. He shows what HTML is
4. XML has led to a lot of different vocabulary when talking about things;
they are made [see entire entry...]