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May 28, 2006
irrepressible
Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.
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May 25, 2006
Free Egyptian
Last August, when I was working on a story for Online Journalism Review about activists using technology to organize protests in Egypt, I made the mistake of focusing too much on blogs. One of the people I interviewed, Alaa Abd El Fattah, was quick to pounce on me for asking about blogs and only blogs, when Egyptians were using so many other means to organize.
“How important do you think blogs have been in helping give the opposition in Egypt a platform?” I asked Alaa via email back then.
“The web has been very important — not necessarily blogs,” Alaa shot back. “The interesting story is how all the various websites which includes blogs, forums, independent news pages, official pages of political groups, etc. together became very much the opposition platform. A blog is a piece of software, focusing on them and ignoring other similar pieces of software is ridiculous…But since this is what gives you reporters your kicks I’ll bite and answer your questions as if the web consists of nothing but blogs.”
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May 22, 2006
Three Expression of We Media
The relationship between traditional media and the public is changing, a trend these information professionals call "We Media." This emergent journalistic process allows the Web's social network to produce, analyze, and disseminate news and information to technologically interconnected publics unbounded by geography.
Here is the Chinese translation.
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May 21, 2006
Wingspread
A river name unknown, near the lake.
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May 13, 2006
From Tanzania
He got the lions.
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May 09, 2006
Includes and goes beyond
From Raymond Williams (1977: 108) :
For "hegemony" is a concept which at once includes and goes beyond two powerful earlier concepts, that of "culture" as a "whole social process," in which men define and shape their whole lives; and that of "ideology" in any of its Marxist senses, in which a system of meanings and values is the expression or projection of a particular class interest.
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May 06, 2006
风，以及
被俯视的刹那......
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Coffee Break
手袋来自
香港
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The Future on the Wiki
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May 05, 2006
La Jolla
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May 01, 2006
Garden, Class and Mt. Tamalpais
Rock
Tree
Water
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