Tag: Politics
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Information Overload Regeneration
If anyone knows a good zombie, send them my way: My Brain Is Full. Things I’ve Sort Of Been Paying Attention To: Adam Curry recorded the 200th episode of his Daily Source Code podcast (mp3) live on stage at Gnomedex, blasting a Paradise City/Sgt. Pepper mash-up which has inspired me to dump all my hard…
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SJSU Staff Member Forbidden To Talk With Students On His Podcast
Steve Sloan, Interactive Technology Consultant at San Jose State University, has been podcasting since November 2004 and blogging since at least October 2003. Steve writes about how Emerging Technology can, will, and should affect our traditional models of education. Steve is on the Cluetrain. Steve’s Edupodder podcast has featured interviews with Photojournalism Prof. Dennis Dunleavy,…
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Chinese Democracy and Other Corporate American Friendliness
On the continuing issue of How American Technology Corporations Should Treat Not-Very-Nice Governments: The Online Journalism Review holds a roundtable discussion on the issue of Chinese censorship and regulation of weblogs. Mark Glaser writes: A recent report on China’s filtering efforts by the OpenNet Initiative called the government’s scheme the most sophisticated one in the…
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Self-Correcting Blogosphere
Scoble comes clean: “In the face of overwhelming evidence, I admit I’m wrong. Trying to justify the Chinese MSN word blocker is one of the more boneheaded things I’ve done.” Check out the comments on his post to see more of the discussion. [Background]: Chinese Democracy, Chinese Democracy Continued
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Chinese Democracy Continued…
Let me know when companies that sell newsprint start telling newspapers what they can call themselves.
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Doin’ It On The Bus…
…reading my feeds, that is. Tuesday, on the way home from school Highway 17 bus style, I was making a first attempt at writing while riding, and managed to do it without any great amount of nausea. As the bus pulled into Scotts Valley, I flipped on the wi-fi switch just to see how many…
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Jorge Cortell Redux
Interesting. Two days in a row, once on the old blog and once on the new, my post on the Jorge Cortell situation has attracted comments by individuals claiming that he has been discredited as some sort of fraud who faked his credentials. Of course, the comments have exactly the same text as their lead,…
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Chinese Democracy
Sales pitch to China: Hey, have some Capitalism – yeah it’s good stuff, Free Market it up baby, yeah, you can be our most-favored trading partner, alright? How’s that sound? Great, terrific, maybe we can buy a few of your companies as soon as they get big enough to be useful to competitive with us,…
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How Politicians Should Treat The Press, and Vice Versa
There’s just one thing: all of this advice could (and should) easily be flipped on its head and delivered to the Press.
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Journalistic Heresy
Here’s what I see: bias in American media does not run strictly Left and Right; media bias is either pro-establishment or anti-establishment, regardless of who sleeps in the White House.