Introduction // politicalOBSERVER
Go directly to the main politicalOBSERVER chronology page or read the introduction below to find specific links to the blog.
What you will find is a curated set of articles from online news sources. Some magazine, a few books, mostly newspapers. This activity serves as a device to participate as a citizen—in a very graphic design kind of way. It is also an activity in capturing history.
DesignTrash contributed some early writings, like this mash up on Globalization however article authorship is now found over in the DesignTrash blog. Most all cases of the text formatting is by DesignTrash especially all the body copy in bold.
The usual suspects are The New York Times, The Financial Times,
The Washington Post, and The Economist. Over on the DesignTrash blog, I started resourcing Wired.com and TechCrunch.com too. The new media darling is Current.com and I do luv’s me some OpenSource.com from time to time.
Sustainability, Globalization and World Domination was the first title of this blog. Pretty ambitious for a layman with a full time job, eh! Can I help it if the way to make some sense out of the world is to have a media appetite that includes multiple on-line newspapers.
Here is a quick taste of the political bias you will find inside:
Peak Oil has been researched. I went to a Saturday seminar on the topic to hear some speakers, found a pamphlet called Powering Foreign Policy: The role of Oil in Diplomacy and Conflict which I found striking and the facts on issue led me to create Peak Oil Plan: Sustainable Energy. Yet, to be honest and balanced, I still have a little Toyota truck. How do we get from here to where we are going together? I hope that we will elect officials sometime soon that are willing to establish serious conservation policies. Growth economics is not the long term answer: we need Sustainable practices as a global society.
I still lament what happened in Florida 2000 and the Iraq War never should have happened. If Clinton got impeached for getting lucky and resisting to admit it, why are they still playing nice with Cheney and George Jr.? One got beat in a political game, the others started a war without an exit strategy by stirring the public with fear and lies.
I must admit up-front that there has already been one huge break in this blog. Sometimes a guy just has to walk away...spend sometime away
if you know what I mean. On the other hand, its too hard to ignore the events of our world we live in quite the anomaly-mad really.
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and the New York Times
This jpeg is a layout I created in the Fall of 2006. It led to the inspiration of the web site being created today. 
The structure is from the New York Times, which I find to be a brilliant grid for presenting the massive amount of information that their editors and contributors funnel through that site. The opinion section is an excellent example of how to integrate blogging software into a publication.The writing, photography, illustration and information graphics are also a continuous source of inspiration.