Posted in Social media, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on May 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform.”
“It’s better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else’s dream.”
“Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static [...]
Posted in America, Projects on May 28, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Some years back, my father and I started a nonprofit group called the National Combat Tape Archive. The idea is that we would gather, digitize and store recordings made in combat areas by members of the United States Military, as well as people associated with the military. This began after I listened to a series [...]
Posted in Blogging, Free speech, Journalism on May 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Via Media Bloggers Association:
In what the EFF called a “major victory” for bloggers and citizen journalists, The Sixth Appellate Court of the Court of Appeal of the State of California rejected Apple Computer’s attempt to force disclosure of sources by two blogs (AppleInsider and PowerPage.org) by ruling that bloggers and citizen journalists are entitled to [...]
Posted in Human rights on May 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I found out via [under construction] that an 18-year old Iranian woman named Nazanin Fatehi has been sentenced to death for defending herself and a 16-year old cousin against a rapist. She stabbed him and he died, so now, she’s been sentenced to die.
Former Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam has started a petition for Nazanin and [...]
Posted in Superintelligent sea cucumbers on May 27, 2006 | No Comments »
aa
“It’s traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that’s true of me, but it actually was.”
“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”
“If you have a beautiful face [...]
Posted in Blogging, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers, Writing on May 27, 2006 | No Comments »
Since the op-ed I was invited to write by Canada’s National Post is no longer accessible, I am republishing it here. This draft is not as tight as the published version, but it will have to do.
A Collective Conscience for the Wired World
On February 22, in a closed “revolutionary court” in Iran, Arash Sigarchi was [...]
Posted in Superintelligent sea cucumbers on May 27, 2006 | No Comments »
“Someday, a day that only God knows, Jesus Christ is coming to take away all those who believe in Him. He is coming to meet all true believers in the air. Without benefit of science, space suits, or interplanetary rockets.”
“When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast [...]
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Please Digg any of these Alaa-related posts.
Alaa is one of the three Egyptian bloggers jailed by the Egyptian government.
Tags: Alaa, jailed_bloggers, censorship, Egypt, Digg
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Journalism on May 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Via Sokari at Black Looks, I came across a very cool global News Map by Muti in South Africa.
News Map is a mashup of Google Maps and Yahoo Search. You click on a regional tab and a map is displayed. Click on a country on that map and the latest news headlines appear in a [...]
Posted in Blogging on May 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Well, it turns out I will not be a panelist at the NetSquared Conference, as the funding for my trip turned out to be unavailable. However, I will be a panelist at the Conference on Blogs and the Spread of Democracy, speaking on the “Beyond the Blogosphere” panel.
The conference will take place on July 13 [...]
 | kelsey on Treasury of Chinese Love … |
 | Curt on Missing Jon |
 | Tim on Missing Jon |
 | Jason DeRusha on Traditional Media on Twit… |
 | Happy St. David… on Happy Belated St. David’… |
