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McChesney: Media and politics
December 31, 2003Check out Robert McChesney.com. You’ll find a collection of his works on media, politics and communication theory. His weekly radio show, “Media Matters” is archived on the site so you can stream audio interviews with folks like Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine, Amy Goodman, producer and co-host of Democracy Now, and Michael [...]
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Mediareform.net
December 31, 2003Free Press : media reform through outreach, activism, advocacy and networking Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector. There is much information [...]
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Reticulum Rex
December 31, 2003A new Flash movie describing the Creative Commons has just come out. View it, download it, share it, mix it, create new culture! It’s … Reticulum Rex.
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Mooter search engine
December 30, 2003Here’s a new search engine from Australia: Mooter – Web Search. Interesting, it clusters relevant results visually. try it out and let me know.
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Beware the Farmers’ Almanac!
December 30, 2003Truly rediculous! The real world gets more like the Onion every day. FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs. The best thing that could come out of this is for subscriptions to the OFA to shoot through the roof. “The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning [...]
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Barlow in the blogosphere
December 30, 2003John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and writer of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace is now in the blogosphere and can be visited at BarlowFriendz. Check him out!
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Senators Urge Upgrade of THOMAS
December 29, 2003Senators urge THOMAS upgrade In a letter to LOC’s James illington, several Senators urge the Library of Congress to increase the amount of information available for public access on its Thomas Web site. They deemed THOMAS “insufficient as a portal to the Congress of the United States.” Also see the Project on Government Oversight (POGO, [...]
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Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law Ñ stealthily
December 29, 2003San Antonio Current. “WITH A WHISPER, NOT A BANG” By David Martin. December 24, 2003. President George W. Bush signed into law the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 on a Saturday, the day Saddam Hussein was captured. Tucked away in this law are new executive powers that expand the so-called P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act. By [...]
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Book about Hoax
December 28, 2003Guardian Unlimited Books: The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick by Peter Lamont reviewed by Michael Holland, Sunday December 28, 2003. In an age of altered photos, malleable news, and disappearing web sites, this story about the how people believe in things that are simply not true is timely. In essence, Lamont entertains us with [...]
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Donald Norman: New book changes course
December 26, 2003Why Machines Should Fear By W. Wayt Gibbs. Scientific American January 2004 issue. “Once a curmudgeonly champion of “usable” design, cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman argues that future machines will need emotions to be truly dependable.” Norman’s new book, Emotional Design is due out in January from Basic Books.