Posted in Corporate censorship, Free speech, Human rights on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
YouTube is assisting the Thai government in censoring its product. (Via SplashCast blog.) Its corporate overlord, Google, is already doing the same for the Chinese government.
It didn’t take long for YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley to trot out the Chamberlainesque excuse pioneered by Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, “At the end of the day we want to always [...]
Posted in PR, Social media, Wiki on June 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Update: Considering Virgil Griffith’s Wikipedia Scanner, which shows which companies have edited their own entries by comparing edits to IP addresses there’s even more reason to leave the editing of your entry to others. Here’s the Wired story, “See Who’s Editing Wikipedia.”
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It’s not unheard of for me to disagree with my friend Marshall Kirkpatrick. However, [...]
Posted in Daily Constitutional, Hiking, Jacksonville, Oregon, Outdoors on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I went back to the Jacksonville Woodlands to do the Petard Ditch Loop, a 1 1/2 mile hike that starts at Rich Gulch, which I covered here. To get to the trailhead, either hike up to Rich Gulch as I described in that post, or drive further up Oregon Street to the streetside trailhead [...]
Posted in Poetry on June 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As now you honor he who’s safely dead
In feigned affection on a public stage,
Your agents murder others in their beds
And feed the fire with their orphaned pages.
Tophets burn the hottest when their fires
Are stoked with fuel that’s gathered out of grief,
Loss on loss compounded on the pyre,
The fires and the prey they rise to meet.
Their [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Jailed bloggers on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Esra’a told me (posted here) that all the sites associated with Free Kareem.org, to get Kareem Amer out of Egyptian jail where he’s been put due to critical comments on his blog, have been hacked. The main site’s back up but they’re still recovering data and the feeds don’t work.
I wonder who did the hack? [...]
Posted in America, Egypt, Entrepreneurship, France, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Social media on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Parisian wigglers at a bar in the Bastille, by S.
Dear Loic:
We don’t know each other well, having done nothing more than exchange a few emails over the years. But one of the benefits of being a participant in the wide world of social media is a shamelessness and a willingness to dialogue publicly, qualities [...]
Posted in Egypt, History on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, always made me a bit uneasy. That he was a camera-whore was obvious. I’m no Egyptologist, but I wasn’t sure how reliable his scholarship was considering most of his time seemed to be spent as a talking head for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Times Channel, [...]
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