Robin Good Enhanced: Top Journalism Tools

This is a great curated collection of tools for journalists hand-picked by top communication and publishing professionals. Phi Beta Iota: This is so useful we have extracted all tools from all journalists and list and link them below the line. Categories include Cartography/Geospatial, Google Apps, Research, Smart Phone Apps, Twitter Apps, Workspace I – Apps, …

Owl: Saudi Instability, Pedophilia Taking Hillary Down, Warren as Manchurian Candidate, a Muslim Europe?

A few days ago, in a post mentioned here, John Robb predicted ISIS would invade and take Saudi Arabia in Spring, at the earliest. With King Abdullah dead, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/, Robb has changed his forecast and states ISIS will likely take a southern pivot, moving troops from Iraq and Syria, going south after Mecca and Medina, …

Richard Winger: US Electoral Reform Update

To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting.  There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas: