In this CNET article, GateHouse Media object on the grounds of copyright infringement because the NYT uses the headline and first sentence, but their real gripe is that it links directly to the article, not to the front page, and …
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Salon discusses the Internet and the two poles of “Google is making us stupid” and “the Internet will liberate humanity.” In “A Brief History of Everything”, Ken Wilber resurrected Arthur Koestler’s holons: autonomous structures that are themselves part of a …
Suppose I robbed a bank of $1 million (they don’t usually carry that much cash, but I raided the safe deposit boxes, too.) Later that same day, I reaped as much at another bank. I repeated that every day, all …
There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election. Yes and no. Look at the electoral shifts since 2004. A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see …
This election is like no other, and here’s why: it’s a populist election for the first time. What has created that is technology: the internet, video cameras, easy video editing, YouTube and social networking sites like Digg. In all previous …
“Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?” asks the NYTimes: “they’ve done so in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language” “Jon Stewart [is] as substantive as network news” Indiana …
A speaker from San Clemente was quoted as saying “We are one of those people that make over $250,000 a year, and I don’t agree that that makes us rich.” The median household income for California is $54,000; for San …
The GOP is busy painting Obama as elitist, arrogant, out-of-touch. Glenn Greenwald covers this well. But McCain is the man with $520 shoes and eight homes.
The Wall Street Journal writes that “Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation“. Finally, the message is reaching the establishment. Latest example: Channel Intelligence is suing everybody (if they’re small) for wishlists in a database. Sheesh. How does the USPTO let this kind …
Wow, you can’t make this kind of stuff up. A UCF student took a wafer at a Catholic Mass, upsetting the clergy who believe that it is the actual Body of Christ and hence must be consumed immediately. An atheist …