December 2010
22 posts
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“Bradley Manning’s incarceration has been clearly designed to punish, to...”
– Karen Kwiatkowski (via azspot)
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The Most Trusted Name in News? →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Salon:
CNN will co-host a Republican presidential debate next year with the Tea Party Express, which is basically a PAC run by Republican political operatives. It is a slightly puzzling decision from a “basic standards of journalistic ethics” standpoint, although from a “desperation for attention and the participation of a bunch of Fox employees” standpoint it...
“There is, of course, a very good reason that animals slow down with size: All...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)
“The Internet we know today exists only because, until now, there have been no...”
– Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic - Union Square Ventures (via garychou)
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“Counterintuitively, as their power wanes, empires often plunge into ill-advised...”
– How America will collapse (by 2025) - U.S. Economy - Salon.com
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Amazon and WikiLeaks - Online Speech Is Only as... →
Today Amazon sells many things, but its roots are in books, which historically have been a lightning rod for political censorship campaigns. These campaigns tried and failed to suppress Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Nabokov’s Lolita, and even Orwell’s 1984. And it’s the book industry - including writers, publishers, booksellers and libraries - that has championed the rights...
Wikileaks and Amazon Web Services: Some thoughts →
futurejournalismproject:
Via jdgalarneau:
The power of the press can be dramatically limited when the power to the press is disconnected. Outside the newspaper industry, few publishers actually own their own printing presses. U.S. courts rarely exercise prior restraint (orders that prohibit publication), and most printers rely on their customers to shoulder the legal liability if there are...
