links for 2008-09-08
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Box BBC will track a shipping container for a year as a study of globalization. Could be an… Read More »links for 2008-09-08
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Parochialism and cultural export… or why Titanic is France’s best-grossing film
I mentioned a few posts back that I found individual sentences in Paul Starr’s brilliant “Creation of the Media” worth remembering and exploring later. One… Read More »Parochialism and cultural export… or why Titanic is France’s best-grossing film
links for 2008-09-05
Brussels admits defeat in EU blog wars :: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels European Commission report suggests that citizen media, especially blogs and viral video, were… Read More »links for 2008-09-05
Infowar and Measuring Authenticity
I had an opportunity to share my observations about “citizen propaganda” in the Russia/Georgia conflict with someone far more knowledgeable than myself – Gregory Shvedov,… Read More »Infowar and Measuring Authenticity
links for 2008-09-03
Inside India%u2019s CAPTCHA solving economy | Zero Day | ZDNet.com One thing CAPTCHAs can't stand up to – well-organized professional operations designed to solve thousands… Read More »links for 2008-09-03
links for 2008-08-30
"Reinventing Knowledge" | Salon Books Review of "Reinventing Knowledge" by McNeely and Wolverton – includes an intriguing parallel between the "society of letters" that characterized… Read More »links for 2008-08-30