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“The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. “

Behind the scenes of This American Lifes’ “Giant Pool of Money” episode, which told the backstory of the subprime credit crisis.

“The Social Economy
The Social Economy is just beginning to emerge. It represents the convergence of “bottom up” movements including D.I.Y., Commons-Based Peer Production, Social Media, and Localism….

A good primer on how the internet works

“Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation’s…