What's really killing newspapers:They're no longer the best providers of social currency. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine Interesting discussion of newspapers and social… Read More »links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]
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Palestinians capture violence of Israeli occupation on video | World news | guardian.co.uk Interesting piece on citizen video in the occupied territories, documenting settler violence… Read More »links for 2008-07-31
There’s understandable outcry about revelations that reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing will be using censored internet connections which block access to sites on sensitive… Read More »Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing
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One of the best parts of this gathering at Microsoft is not the cool new toys coming from Microsoft research, but the ideas presented by… Read More »Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones