Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Jul 12, 2009, 4:03 pm
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Jul 12, 2009, 4:03 pm
National ethos lost. Civil life reduced to consumerism. Traditions declining. Big Business - inefficient, slow to respond; just like Big Government. Unaccountable corporate bureaucrats become gatekeepers of life's necessities. The poor condemned, the environment ravished, by the grace and guidance o...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Jul 9, 2009, 12:24 pm
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Jul 9, 2009, 12:24 pm
Google has recently announced their plan to release a new open source operating system called Chrome OS, which they hope to make freely available by mid 2010. A quick review of write-ups about Google's announcement (like this piece by Miguel Helft and Ashlee Vance in the New York Times) reveals tha...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Apr 27, 2009, 9:18 pm
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Apr 27, 2009, 9:18 pm
Below is an entry I published awhile back on a collaborative blog that apparently (and unfortunately) isn't going to materialize anytime soon. The piece contains some of my thoughts on a particular criticism often leveled against the principles behind Web 2.0. I specifically address Andrew Keen's vi...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Mar 12, 2009, 3:55 pm
Originally published by Bill Powell at The Distributist Review. Gripe, gripe, gripe. Globalization swallows the globe. Monsanto poisons your popcorn. Big Business and Big Government team up to embed RFID tracking chips in schoolkids. And distributists love to hate the whole mess. Cheers! Well, frien...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Feb 26, 2009, 11:37 pm
This is the first in a series of articles that I will be writing for a new magazine, called The Coffee Companion. During the last century continuing through to the present day, philosophy has come to be identified increasingly with the work of the professional philosopher; its techniques and rich vo...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Jan 13, 2009, 12:08 pm
Yesterday my friend Matt brought to my attention an article entitled "A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows," which recently appeared in the Business Secion of the New York Times. It's an interview story on Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, but is equally about the rise in use of Ca...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Dec 10, 2008, 4:57 pm
Photo by Keith Allison. Last night, Zydrunas Ilgauskas passed Brad Daugherty to become the all-time leading rebounder in Cavaliers franchise history and Lebron James passed Mark Price to be become the Cavaliers' all-time steals leader. They trounced the Toronto Raptors, 114-94, which was their 9th...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Dec 7, 2008, 11:51 am
This past Friday, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviewed journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Blogging Revolution. They discussed how many non-Western bloggers have been arrested and suppressed by government institutions of their respective countries just because they pose a threat to...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Dec 6, 2008, 12:13 pm
It looks as if some of E. F. Schumacher's ideas have begun to grow legs in Milwaukee. The Riverwest and Eastside communities have begun to entertain the possibility of establishing local currency, and they've been getting a fair share of local and national media attention for it too. Newsweek, the C...
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Nathan Blackerby posted an article on Essence of Balance - Dec 4, 2008, 1:16 pm
This week, I came across a number of interesting videos and books that deal with so-called intellectual property, copyright issues, digital media, the free culture movement, Creative Commons licensing, and other related matters. The first of which is a film called Good Copy, Bad Copy, which was rele...
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