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But there’s a lot of blood, tissue and crap in the eye, and that’s all mixed with the saline, resulting in a fluid much like muddy water. One day away from the surgery, the world through my right eye looked like a Mark Rothko painting.
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I share Andrew’s joy in that moment where the phone goes silent and the wifi fades away - I suspect everyone who’s overwhelmed by demands on their time does. (And I suspect almost everyone is overwhelmed by demands on their time.)
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David makes the point that fame in an internet age can be a very different phenomenon than fame in the broadcast age. But being famous to fifteen people is a very old phenomenon, not just a very new one.
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It was a great honor for me to be on the air with Brooke and I’m looking forward to thinking through these issues a bit more so I can speak more intelligently next time (and so I can be a bit less of a stuttering fanboy around one of my favorite public radio figures.)
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YouTube - Sami al-Hajj speaks of his Guantanamo ordeal - 02 May 2008 Journalist Sami al-Hajj speaks to Al Jazeera after his release from Guantanamo after more than six years in prison.
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World Public Opinion Survey of public opinions on media freedom finds surprisingly high levels of support for government censorship in order to maintain social stability from people surveyed in Russia, Middle East (tags: media freespeech journalism censorship internet )
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The TFG, backed by the Ethiopian Army, supported by US military assistance, chased out the Union of Islamic Courts, a group of warlords who managed to bring some semblance of stability to Mogadishu and its environs by introducing a form of sharia law.
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What’s much less clear is how the internet is monitored and what governments, law enforcement agencies, corporations and others are able to track as far as online behavior. But if they announce the can detect only BitTorrent sharing, that will likely drive people to alternative tools.
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Homophily, xenophilia and empathy.? andrew golis Excellent post from Andrew Golis connecting my thoughts on homophily to Barack Obama’s talk about an “empathy deficit” (tags: uspolitics blogs xenophilia homophily )
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A site like Reddit attracts a lot of young men who work technical jobs and lean to the left politically - rely on Redditors for your news and you’re unlikely to encounter many stories from the developing world, from the political right, from non-technical disciplines.
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