Virtually Speaking

Jay will be out of town. Stirling and Ian will reprise their discussion of the future of the US and the world economy and environment

We discuss the atrocities documented earlier in the day by the Sabbath Gasbags. See CoT's Bobblespeak Translationsbeforehand. And read emptywheel every day. She's the hardest working woman in journalism.

Avedon blogs at the The Sideshow Stuart is a prolific commenter, much of it at Time's Swampland. We are gonna focus on the role the New Democrats are playing in establishing the ideological playing field.

James writes for the Atlantic Magazine, and blogs at his Atlantic site. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent Postcards From Tomorrow's Square, which is about his extended time spent reporting from China. Bruce is a highly regarded security expert, author of Applied Cryptography and of a cryptographic algorithm. He is also the author of books about security issues for the general public, including Secrets and Lies and Schneier on Security

Virtually Speaking Sundays is a contrast and a counter point to the vapid inside the beltway conventional wisdom spewed out every week on the sunday morning interview shows. On Sunday evenings, prominent members of the progressive blogosphere discuss the events of the week. ? Cliff is a political consultant based in Ohio. He sometimes shows up on television digby is, well, ?

Karl writes for Media Matters for America. We will discuss the nature of media and its complicity in advancing government propaganda and Republican messaging.

We will document the atrocities. Our media, not theirs.

Max will talk about his videos of conservatives in their native surroundings, and his new book, Republican Gomorrah.

Virtually Speaking Sundays is a contrast and a counter point to the vapid inside the beltway conventional wisdom spewed out every week on the sunday morning interview shows. On Sunday evenings, prominent members of the progressive blogosphere discuss the events of the week. nyceve is a hardworking Kossack dedicated to health care issues. digby is, well, digby

Jay Rosen has been on the NYU Journalism School faculty since 1986, and from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department. He lives in New York City. Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In June 2005, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. In April 2007 PressThink recorded its two millionth visit. He also blogs at the Huffington Post. In July 2006 he announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project is OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post.

Cliff is a political consultant, and occasional talking head on the cable shows. watertiger is a comedian and a blogger (http://www.dependablerenegade.com/). Our media, not theirs.

As MSNBC.com's science editor, Alan Boyle runs a virtual curiosity shop of the physical sciences and space exploration, plus paleontology, archaeology and other ologies that strike his fancy. Since joining MSNBC.com in 1996, Boyle has won awards from the National Academies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Space Frontier Foundation, the Pirelli Relativity Challenge and the CMU Cybersecurity Journalism Awards program. He is the author of "The Case for Pluto," a contributor to "A Field Guide for Science Writers," the blogger behind Cosmic Log — and an occasional talking head on the MSNBC cable channel. His blog is at http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/

Marcy (emptywheel of FireDogLake) and Joan (mcjoan of DailyKos) will discuss, and mock, what has happened this week. Our media, not theirs.

Janine is the founder of the Biomimicry Institute, natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In Biomimicry, Janine names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models a prairie, businesses that run like redwood forests).

Hilarity will ensue.