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The Daily Mail reaches yet lower depths. It's political incorrectness gone mad I say! Via Bloggerheads
"Forget al-Hurra - if you're looking for a real public diplomacy fiasco, you'll be hard pressed to do worse than the US acting as al-Qaeda's agent in promoting its Iraqi success."
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"Thus, the issue of making deals with content companies has quickly led to a kind of Catch-22 for Google. As one Hollywood executive, who didn't want to be identified because of the continuing negotiations, said of Google: "The more content they license,
"The article discusses Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia which can be added to and edited by the public, which currently has over three million articles in approximately 200 languages. The more general phenomenon of web sites which use wiki technology
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"The truth is that my trust has shifted. I find I trust The Times and other mainstream media far more after they've gone through the blogosphere. E.g., I trust Jay's blogging of the the Times' coverage — and the remarkable voices in his comments section
via http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/2005/10/calvinism.html - "I think it's because conflict is drama, drama is entertainment and entertainment is marketable"
"Our shared concern is who is going to do this if newspapers can no longer afford to pay reporters. ...With the growth of social filtering and whatever some genius in a garage is inventing, the Internet is only going to get better at this. While we wonder
"This is what the incumbents can never appreciate. They are hard coded to assume that voice = phone calls and video = TV. The two great economic drivers of the communications industry, advertisers and users, will have no trouble adapting. AOL, Yahoo!, and
"It was an ambush. It was an attempt to discredit the story's teller in order to deny the story's meaning. It was contemptible. And, Brian points out, it didn't help that Russert consistently mispronounced the drowned woman's name."
"I spoent the morning at the Museum of TV & Radio which put together a symposium of about 25 people (all white, 3 women) about how bloggers and mainstream media can work together. The bloggers were the usual suspects who write about the issue of blogging,
"BusinessWeek: A New Wireless Order. Sounds like science fiction, but a world where many different types of wireless networks coexist and compete for traffic is just around the corner. And nobody is pushing harder to make it happen than Finnish giant Noki
"To see white people speaking as bitterly and forlornly and uncomprehendingly of their plight as black people did might contribute to the national understanding, and not just of the scale of this disaster."
Take, for example, del.icio.us, founded in 2003 by former Morgan Stanley analyst Joshua Schachter to keep track of the thousands of Web page bookmarks he accumulated. The site allows users to write descriptions, or tags, of favorite Web pages using terms
Columnists like Thomas Friedman and popularizing scholars like Samuel Huntington digest a large amount of cultural information for mass audiences, but this thorough deconstruction (though not of their most recent work) aims to make readers more cautious w
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