The Financial Crisis Explained.

Want to understand the Wall Street crisis which is becoming a worldwide crisis:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/96106-the-financial-crisis-explained

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/the-financial-crisis-explained/



http://www.rue89.com/explicateur/2008/09/03/crise-des-subprimes-si-vous-navez-toujours-rien-compris

http://www.rue89.com/files/subprimesRue89.pdf

Need some more Internet Credibility?

An interesting post I received this morning by email. It is called "How to build credibility on the Web." It was written by Dustin M. Wax, the project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade.

More on Canada's election web 2.0.

On the previous post, Electopinion invited me (and all of you as well) to visit this new site:

http://electopinion.ca/

It is a Twitter aggregator divided by political parties. You can read comments made by Twitter users on each party. A vox-populi in real time, Simple and brilliant.

I also found on Fagstein's blog more blogs about canadian politics and the election 2008: (copied and pasted)

# La campagne vue par Marissal et Pratte (just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?), a strange blog in which La Presse columnist Vincent Marissal and "éditorialiste-en-chef" André Pratte discuss politics with each other. Each post is actually a dual post from each of them, asking each other questions and giving their thoughts on some issue. But it's not a strict point-counterpoint.

# Silver-Powers, from the Globe, however, is. A Liberal hack vs. a Tory hack. Both former assistants to politicians in their parties. But rather than just yell at each other or make fun of gaffes from the other's leader, they inject some humour into their posts, and stick to debating the policy issues that set them apart.

# Off the Fence from J. Kelly Nestruck (who went from the McGill Daily to the National Post to the Guardian to the Globe and Mail) has sentimental value for me. We go way back to that protest in 2001 against Canwest, a company we would both later work for.

# Macleans's Deux maudits anglais gets a mention here not just because it's funny (and has provided me plenty of linklove), but because it's one of the few anglo blogs focusing on Quebec.

# Claude William Genest's blog also gets a vote (he's the Green candidate in Westmount), but only because his massive ego is so shameless it's funny. (Though kudos on the website, it's very well designed)

# Ditto Garth Turner, whose blog essentially led to a party switch. Putting blog above party, that's worth something. He continues the full, honest disclosure that got him in trouble in the first place, and separates his blog from other candidates' press-release feeds. (Though every time he mentions Stéphane Dion I ask myself: Really? You're really excited about this guy as prime minister?)

# Liblogs.ca is a blog aggregator, which is pretty good at finding interesting blog posts from small blogs from a Liberal perspective.

And after all this very profound and serious reading, just relax by watching this (very convincing???) video from the Liberals.

Canada's election web 2.0

In the 2006 federal election, Canadian Autoworkers president and NDP supporter Buzz Hargrove created a stir when he asked traditional NDP voters to cast their ballots for Liberal candidates in ridings where the Liberals had a better shot at beating the Conservatives.

One Facebook group takes the idea one step further, formalizing the process.

More than 350 people from across the country had become members of the "Anti-Harper Vote Swap Canada" group as of Thursday afternoon. The group was created Wednesday morning.
Alongside a grinning, flag-waving beaver, the site states: "Stop Harper and advance a progressive agenda without betraying your personal beliefs."

Mat Savelli from Hamilton, Ont., said he started the group to keep Stephen Harper and the Conservatives from winning a majority government.

The website lists 41 ridings that will likely be close battlegrounds, such as Parry Sound-Muskoka in Ontario, Vancouver Island North in British Columbia and Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar in Saskatchewan.

Furthermore, the Internet and its use by politicians has held the most attention. In the third day of election campaign, the Internet seems to be the preferred platform for politicians to restore their image or to undo the image of the opponent.

Notaleader.ca ,the site created by conservatives to challenge the leadership of the Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, went today a step too far, forcing Stephen Harper to make excuses.

The conservatives are not the only ones to parody the social web.

The Liberals were also inspired by Wikipedia for their Scandalpedia.ca site, an encyclopedia listing the "conservatives scandals " put online this week. The site, which offers a list of articles on various "scandals" such as Bernier case and the case Mulroney-Schreiber, also invites users to collaborate in Scandalpedia by contacting the team. But, unlike Wikipedia, it is impossible to edit sections already online ...

To be continued here

This dunky needs to grind his own bean.

Looking for the spelling of the word "dunky", I found this hilarious video. This dunky needs a "prick" shake.