Making news by ‘curating’ social media
The kids *think* they are alright
Trust-e, a private organization which promotes and monitors internet industry self-regulation, has produced a survey of US teens, social networks and privacy it entitled The Kids Are Alright. As its title suggests, its conclusions are broadly soothing. Facebook posted a status update about the report saying that it found “the majority of parents and teens understand how to protect their privacy and think their controls on Facebook are easy to use.” This is not true – it found that the majority of parents and teens believe or state that they understand how to protect their privacy. But as Sonia Livingstone’s work with teens and parents found (for example), teens may have difficulty understanding privacy settings without realising it and parents may underestimate the degree of risk their children encounter.
TSA ejects Oceanside man from airport for refusing security check
Tyner was simultaneously thrown out of San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning for refusing to submit to a security check and threatened with a civil suit and $10,000 fine if he left.
And he got the whole thing on his cell phone. Well, the audio at least. HT Hullballoo Kafka On Wings
Top Secret America
"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
TOP SECRET AMERICA BLOG
Top Secret America on Frontline
A short video from PBS’s FRONTLINE on The Post’s two-year investigation. An hour-long documentary film is forthcoming.Watch the trailer »
More power for National Reconnaissance Office
Time to rethink the implicit security bargain (The Atlantic)
The Real U.S. Government (Salon)
Sean Rayment / He said defeating Islamist militancy was "unnecessary and would never be achieved"
( Hardly the same as the headline. In fact 'Islamist militancy' is standard excuse via projection : claiming others must be the rabid dogs that corporate raiders and profiteers are themselves. That's an interesting speculation that ignores who has force available. )
( Hardly the same as the headline. In fact 'Islamist militancy' is standard excuse via projection : claiming others must be the rabid dogs that corporate raiders and profiteers are themselves. That's an interesting speculation that ignores who has force available. )
(I haven't seen this reported for decades. Interesting it surfaces again as the U.S. has its own home grown war criminals who are not prosecuted - including at least two Presidents and a Vice-President - but for that matter...neither are the accused ; by known abusers of the public trust; on trial ! )
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Forget Information Overload: What If The Real Problem Is Information Underload
The "information overload" we face today is of a very different nature than the information overload of the past, and that is that today's information overload is often filling areas that are less about necessities:So what appears to us as "too much information" could just be the freedom from necessity.
How Britain and the web are changing stuffy American journalism
The pithier, more sardonic and opinionated British style lend itself to the web (look at
how much British stuff gets on Drudge). American readers are increasingly exposed to british reporting – a huge proportion of the Telegraph’s web traffic comes from the US.
how much British stuff gets on Drudge). American readers are increasingly exposed to british reporting – a huge proportion of the Telegraph’s web traffic comes from the US.
And there’s a bit of a British expansion going on in US journalism.
Perhaps related to the breaking down of the divide between British and American journalism is the blurring of the old distinction between print and the web. Some very big names are moving to web-only outlets.
ecofeco
Yesterday 08:34 AM
ecofeco
Yesterday 08:34 AM
American news journalists are not "stuffy." They are bought and paid for by corporate American to report only what corporate America wants them to.
11/11/2010 09:56 PM
Whilst reading the latest story in the Telegraph today about Bin Laden appointing a New Leader several pigs flew past my window squealing with laughter.
( Shouldn't that be the 'Sarah Who ?' Show )
breaking the cycle of poverty and disability
Ireland's young flee abroad as economic meltdown looms
A Look at Argentina’s Economic Rebellion and the Social Movements that Led It
We had the vast majority of the population rejecting neoliberal measures and not having any political alternative in the established political parties as to how to continue ruling this country.
The rebellion was basically, at the same time, a rejection of austerity measures and also a rejection of the political system. The main slogan of the rebellion was "They must all go," meaning that all politicians should leave the political scene. So, up until this, there was no political alternative then. But the most interesting aspect of the rebellion was that precisely at that moment, large social movements started to experiment new forms of political representation, new political slogans and programs. And some of the measures that you just mentioned, which Néstor Kirchner took after 2003, were actually the measures that the rebellion itself was proposing. For example, the renewal of the Supreme Court was one of the demands of this vast social movement in 2001.
I believe that there’s no deep social change possible without solidarity between the lower class and at least part of the middle class. And since I believe that the capitalist political system is about separating those two classes in different fields, I think that the most important challenge that we have, politically speaking, is to reunite part of the middle class with lower class in new kind of bonds and links of solidarity.
How to Avoid Diabetes
Ancient Mars: "The Water Planet"
Minerals in northern Mars craters observed by two NASA orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south.
The Unsolved Mystery of Saturn's Hexagon -4 Times the Size of Earth
Businesses concerned by water use
Future water shortages are a growing concern for business, according to a global survey published today.
The research shows that more than half of the 147 firms responding expect problems with water in the next 1-5 years.
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