Funding MoveOn ads
Monday, July 21st, 2003MoveOn has met its funding target for advertisements calling for an enquiry into the WMD claims
Archive for July, 2003
MoveOn has met its funding target for advertisements calling for an enquiry into the WMD claims
Thought crime
Monday, July 21st, 2003A friend just forwarded this piece from Creative Loafing, an Atlanta based 'alternative newsweekly'.To tell the truth, I'm kind of anxious to hear back from the FBI, if only for the chance to ask why anyone would find media criticism suspicious, or if maybe the sight of a dark, bearded ...
Paying for Participation
Monday, July 21st, 2003OJR has a brief in their latest bulletin - based on a report at the Globe and Mail - about Fox's move to allow people to pay for the privilege of being reporters (at NASCAR), and contrasts it to OhMyNews, where Korean readers get paid for reports they submit.
Hypocrisy in the UK
Monday, July 21st, 2003I've found the moves to have British detainees at Guantanamo extradited to the UK somewhat distasteful, and this piece from the Guardian's Wrap explains perfectly why that might be: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown uses her Independent column to ask the government to do more still: she points out that Moazzam Begg and Feroz ...
RISKS in SEVIS
Monday, July 21st, 2003Thomas Dzubin has an interesting piece on SEVIS in the latest edition of RISKS Digest: Under new United States homeland security laws, all U.S. schools have to register their foreign students in the database, known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). This system has all the attributes ...
Us and them
Monday, July 21st, 2003Salon has an interesting article on Todd Gitlin, focusing on his new book "Letters to a Young Activist." It's in the same Art of Mentoring series as Hitchens's Letters to a Young Contrarian - and I find the contrast in the titles/approaches chosen interesting. Gitlin is right to stress that refusing ...
Dog bites man/Flooding in Galway
Monday, July 21st, 2003RTE is reporting flooding in what it calls the 'Spanish Arch area of the city.' An accurate description, of course, though I was amused to see that the picture they use to illustrate the story online is taken from ... Flood St.I suppose saying 'Floods in Flood St area of ...
Copyright and ‘essay databases’ online
Monday, July 21st, 2003As you may have noticed, my weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons license - the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license to be precise. Some time ago I noticed links in my logs from some of those 'essay databases' you find online. Following them back, I noticed that their links were hidden behind ...
WEF Dublin meeting cancelled
Saturday, July 19th, 2003Looks like the World Economic Forum meeting in Dublin has been cancelled. Not sure if it's a good thing. The issues will be discussed, but in Davos next year. Not only will the public be kept out, but the participants are less likely to hear them pounding on the gates.