2008’s first Newsweek offers:
[The Long Tail] is now playing a part in our politics, where Paul’s recent rise reflects the same dynamics. In 1988 his libertarian message—reduce government at home, resist military meddling abroad, restore the gold standard—went unheard. Today, it’s spreading quickly online and connecting activists across the country, a few people at [...]
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Long-Tail Politics 12.31.07
2099: Underwater mag-lev from NYC to London 12.30.07
We often hear about how terrible air travel is as sustainable and economic transportation. Here’s an interesting alternative, whose impossibility is compared to the semi-successful Chunnel.
Also, I love trains.
From Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering:
“A magnetically levitated train could theoretically take you from New York to London in 54 minutes. But you’d have to go 5,000 mph [...]
2007 wanes, with lists. 12.23.07
How else to mark a year but by organizing its media into lists?
Roger Ebert lets us know the top films of 2007, with Juno taking the top spot. I’ll be seeing Juno later this week with friends who’ve already seen it once. Worth the do-over apparently.
International Herald Tribune offers the best of 2007 in pictures. [...]
12.16.07
Salon’s Exclusive: Inside the CIA’s notorious “black sites” - “A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture — the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons.”
Market Failure: With Statistics! 12.15.07
The Congressional Budget Office of the United States offers the following, as reported in the New York Times:
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans… The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in [...]
Globe asks: When did copyright become sexy? 12.14.07
Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Mail asks this question while providing a very good summary of the recent copyright conflict in Canada.
I’d offer that digital rights have been important for sometime but the maturation of social news and the web have enabled and empowered all sorts of people.
A sense of democratic worth [...]
Cisco (!) on the Canadian DMCA and the social web 12.14.07
The tremendous mismanagement of the DMCA introduction in Canada by Minister Prentice and the impressive critical and organized response of Canada’s public has garnered the attention of many. Among them, Cisco, for some reason:
No matter what side of this issue you fall on, the reaction demonstrates the power of Web 2.0 to disseminate information [...]
What must lack in a Bush II Press Secretary 12.05.07
Dana Perino, the mouthpiece of the of the Bush administration has, unquestionably, one of the most difficult jobs.
Not because skills it requires you to possess or risks to assume but rather because what it requires you lack. Self-respect, decency, humanity, a sense of shame are unneeded as White House Press Secretary. She’s made absurd, [...]
Jim Prentice! Tear down your wall! 12.04.07
Industry Minister Jim Prentice, seemingly an advocate for the rights of consumers following his spectrum auction announcement, has demonstrated a rather sickening disregard for Canadians recently.
CBC’s Search Engine podcast and its viewers, like many Canadians, have been concerned about an impending Canadian-style Digital Millennium Copyright Act — drafted in the coke-dusted, vodka-drenched backrooms of the [...]
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts 12.02.07
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts: Defiant Malawi begins to feed itself and others by doing as the West does, not what the West instructs. [NYT]
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