http://expectresistance.info ideas, issues, and insights on the high seas Mon, 28 May 2007 23:02:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been searching for blogs that are run by people of color particularly by women. And I came across an article titled, "The Segregated Blogosphere in ColorLines." The article mentioned that when bloggers of color reveal their race and deal with issues of race and cultural politics they get ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/05/28/segregated-blogosphere/ International Communication Association conference is under way in San Francisco. I attended several sessions; like any other conference, some are interesting and some are dull like hell. One session that was worth noting was the presentation by "Digital Underground Story Telling For Youth (DUSTY). DUSTY is a collaborative program between ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/05/26/resistance-is-futile/ I am tired of hearing people use the term "participatory media" without questioning who participates or who's able to participate. Every tech group/meeting that I attend is largely white and male dominant. Maybe I have been in the wrong places, but I don't think my experience is far from ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/05/25/whose-participatory-media/ I shamelessly admit that I got addicted to Korean soap opera after 15 years of absence from Korean TV. Maybe this is age or something else but I have been missing home lately. Unfortunately (or fortunately) my homesickness led me to watch Korean soap operas in a perverted attempt to ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/05/08/resistance-in-korean-soap-opera/ Why the FCC Will Get Media Ownership Wrong Again, And What They Should Do to Get it Right, by Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress, January 26, 2007. Whatever happened to the FCC’s obligation to consider the public interest? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the public interest is. ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/29/why-the-fcc-will-get-media-ownership-wrong-again/ There is a fascinating article in Science News about how scientists are investigating ways to identify individuals based on the rhythm of their keystrokes when they type and their individual patterns of using a mouse. This research goes beyond, but is complemented by, research in text analysis that can ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/29/digital-fingerprints/ Two Korean teachers are arrested under national security law for posting North Korean materials on Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU) website. According to KTU, the reason for the arrest is "they possessed and distributed materials concerned with sungun politics (North Korean politics in which military takes precedence over ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/27/two-korean-teachers-arrested-posting-north-korean-materials/ I have been trying to find out what happened with the 6th Korea/US FTA negotiation which just ended. However, there is little coverage in the western media except one tiny article (With New Urgency, U.S. and South Korea seek Free Trade Deal) from the NY times (Jan 16, 2007) I found ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/25/fta-can-be-worse-than-imf-for-south-koreans/ The 6th round of the South Korea / U.S. free trade agreement will be held in Shilla Hotel from Jan 15 to Jan 19 in Korea. In the past, there have been mass protests in Korea against unfair Kor/U.S. FTA and a massive protest is expected during this round as ... http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/14/south-korea-us-fta-jan-15-19/ David Berman, Archives & Museum Informatics, wrote an article in D Lib magazine (Decemeber 2006) recapping Jean-Noël Jeanneney's Critique on Google. I think all librarians need to read and think about those 5 critiques that Berman addresses. http://expectresistance.info/2007/01/06/jean-noel-jeanneneys-critique-of-google/