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Are we Deluded in Thinking that the Internet Transforms Power Structures?
Here's Dave Parry's response to The Net Delusion.
politics  activism  technology  Net_Delusion  from delicious
february 2011 by McChris
Threat Level: Wikipedia Struggles With John Edwards Love-Child Rumor
Wikipedia editors do not consider The National Enquirer a sufficiently reliable source for article information, at least on controversial issues. Conservatives are crying foul after allegations about the politician were spiked from the article.
wikipedia  politics  politics2.0 
july 2008 by McChris
The Nation: Surveillance Protest Group Tops Obama Website
It's really quite amazing that the largest group on a campaign site is one protesting the candidate's action on the telecom-immunity bill. It seems as if administrators would have snuffed out the group by this point.
yasns  elections  politics 
july 2008 by McChris
Obama Spoke Cards Hope To Attract Fixed Gear Demo
I guess this isn't merch from the Obama organization, but I wonder if there will be a hipster backlash now that you can get little Obama signs to stick in the spokes of your fixie.
hipsters  politics  cycling 
may 2008 by McChris
Threat Level : Clinton Debunks Claims She Scrubbed Spitzer Off Her Campaign Site
"New York Sen. Hillary Clinton may be staying mum on the campaign trail in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer scandal involving his patronage of pricey prostitutes, but her campaign's making it clear that the Democratic presidential candidate isn't one to aban
archiving  memory  politics  hmm 
march 2008 by McChris
Attytood: Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary's "Archie Bunker" strategy for Pa.
This post argues that Hillary Clinton constructs Archie Bunker as the ideal Democrat for the twenty-first century, noting Geraldine Ferraro represented a New York neighborhood much like the one in "All in the Family."
politics  racism  popularmemory  TV  class  NYC 
march 2008 by McChris
The Boston Globe: What font says 'Change'?
This article about presidential campaign logos is a good discussion of typography for the layman.
design  typography  elections  politics 
january 2008 by McChris
Threat Level: Romney Gets Dinged Over "Bling Bling"
At campaign stops in Florida, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asked "Who Let the Dogs Out?" and complimented a black child on her "bling-bling."
hip-hop  totalcorporatedouches  politics  whiteness 
january 2008 by McChris
Talking Points Memo: Fried Squirrel: I'm Loving It!
I'm still chuckling over this video where Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee cops to frying squirrels on a popcorn popper.
food  politics  humor  video  scary 
january 2008 by McChris
Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos
Cartoonist Ward Sutton analyzes Presidential campaign logos in fourteen panels
comics  design  politics  branding 
november 2007 by McChris
1960s George Wallace Segregation Comic Book
This comic book was distributed during George Wallace's 1962 governor's race, scaring folks about the implications of desegregation. "In Birmingham they love the governor..."
comics  history  politics  race  popularmemory 
august 2007 by McChris
10 Zen Monkeys: Venezuela: Dispatch from a Surrealist Autocracy
This personal essay explains Hugo Chavez's history with the media and his current efforts to control it.
TV  politics  media  Venezuela 
june 2007 by McChris
The FCC Implications of Fred Thompson's Possible Presidential Bid
The Broadcast Law Blog suggests that Thompson's presidential campaign may force seasons of "Law & Order" off the air.
politics  TV  FCC  celebrity 
june 2007 by McChris
Time Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason
Al Gore uses a tacit "strong effects" argument in this piece blaming television for eroding public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV  publicsphere  technology 
may 2007 by McChris
Broadcasting & Cable: The Groaning of Al Gore
Responding to Al Gore's anti-TV editorial, the trade magazine contends that journalism across the board is responsible for the quality of public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV 
may 2007 by McChris
techPresident: The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace
I'm late posting this excellent account of how the Obama campaign wrestled control of a MySpace profile from a committed volunteer.
politics2.0  politics  UGC  myspace 
may 2007 by McChris
CJR: How TalkingPointsMemo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story
Columbia Journalism Review examines how TalkingPointsMemo was able to once again push a story into the mainstream media. I was surprised to hear the US Attorney firings on cable news, after I had been reading it on TPM for so long.
journalism  politics  blog 
march 2007 by McChris
Libby's Lies, Cheney's Lies
Juan Cole provides an illustrated recap of Libby and Cheney's dirty deeds.
war  politics  lies 
march 2007 by McChris
Chaka Fattah's Technology Plan
Chaka Fattah used to be my representative in West Philly and is now running for mayor of the city. I take issue with some of his suggestions like SmartBoards, but infobong.com endorses him for mayor.
education  technology  politics  Philadelphia 
march 2007 by McChris
Larry West for Mayor: About Larry
Larry is a mohawked punk running for mayor of the city of brotherly shove. I don't care for Philly, but damn if I don't love Philadelphia punk rock!
awesome  Philadelphia  DIY  politics  punk 
march 2007 by McChris
techPresident: Wikipedia's Expansive Influence in Candidate Search Results
Fred Stutzman queried Google for the names of presidential contenders and noted the result order (not PageRank) of their official sites and their Wikipedia entries. Wikipedia won in many cases.
google  politics  wikipedia 
february 2007 by McChris
A tour of Second Life's big empty
It doesn't surprise me that high-profile projects in Second Life are largely abandoned, but this first-person account is still pretty interesting.
SecondLife  politics  humor 
february 2007 by McChris
The Morning News: Is Chris Dodd White Enough?
This satire of Patricia Dickerson's discussion of Obama's racial identity is funny, but I'm not sure I entirely agree with the point it makes.
whiteness  politics  race  satire 
february 2007 by McChris
500 Reasons I'm Glad I Don't Work in Arizona
Jason MIttell describes the implications of bill that would punish professors from expressing an opinion in the classroom.
education  power  politics  stupid 
february 2007 by McChris
AlterNet: Obama's Identity: Where Do We Start?
Since Obama is not the descendant of slaves, his entry into the presidential race raises questions about what it means to be black.
race  politics  immigration 
february 2007 by McChris
Core77: Is design political?
As a cultural studies person, the answer is obviously "yes," but Jennie Winhall's Foulcauldian essay might be good for introducing undergrads to the power issues embedded in the design of things.
design  power  politics 
february 2007 by McChris
techPresident: John Edwards Unofficially Enters Second Life
I'm impressed with Edwards' technology experiments, if not the implementation.
politics2.0  politics  SecondLife  virtual_world 
february 2007 by McChris
My.BarackObama.com
The presidential contender has added a social networking feature to his campaign site. I'm not sure people want to fill out another profile and forget their password.
yasns  politics  Web2.0  politics2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Wingnut blogging lynch mob strikes again!: Where's the Fire?
After landing a job with the Edwards campaign, Austin blogger Amanda Marcotte was forced out by pressure from religious conservatives.
blog  politics  austin 
february 2007 by McChris
Dennis Kucinich: Bring back the Fairness Doctrine
I tend to agree with this in principle, but I don't think the rules that were in place until 1987 make sense today.
FCC  broadcast  politics  radio  fairness_doctrine 
january 2007 by McChris
Katrina frozen embryo is a boy named Noah
Oh dear, a team of law-enforcement personnel rescued frozen embryos during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thaw adults suffered and died.
neworleans  disaster  lawenforcement  politics  stupid 
january 2007 by McChris
Digital Media Marketplace: The Next Frontier for Media Reform
This political-economic critique of new media suggests progressives need to fight against consolidation online.
politicaleconomy  politics  publicpolicy 
january 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Bush Administration bans estimates of Grand Canyon's age
Thanks to pressure from creationists, administrative rules prevent park personnel from answering questions about the formation of the Canyon or its age.
religion  politics  stupid 
january 2007 by McChris
virtualpolitik: No President Left Behind
Liz Losh critiques the Bush administration's information design.
design  politics  chartjunk 
december 2006 by McChris
Socialist Worker: The art of streets
Leftist discussion of graf and street art.
streetart  activism  art  politics 
december 2006 by McChris
Daily Show: Lauer-Certified Civil War
The Bush administration waged a semantic battle after NBC News decided to term the conflict in Iraq a "civil war" yesterday.
war  stupid  politics  language 
november 2006 by McChris
Wired News: Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose
The US Army has introduced a strategy game that pits a futuristic American army against insurgents... the only problem is that the Americans can't lose.
gaming  silly  politics  military 
november 2006 by McChris
Oaxaca’s Popular Movement Suffers Yet Another Brutal Day
Oaxaca  Mexico  politics 
november 2006 by McChris
The Texas Observer: The Spies of Texas
"Newfound files detail how UT-Austin police tracked the lives of Sixties dissidents." Lloyd Doggett, Janis Joplin, and Kinky Friedman were all under surveillance.
austin  utexas  surveillance  lawenforcement  history  politics 
november 2006 by McChris
AdPulp: PBR Runs For Minnesota Seat
Via eyeteeth, a Minnesota Republican running for the state house has appropriated the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo for his campaign signs. Does this mean my favorite cheap beer is totally over?
elections  design  minnesota  politics  weird 
october 2006 by McChris
Nola.com: Hell And Back
A New Orleans journalist relates the psychic toll of Katrina.
disaster  psychology  politics  neworleans 
october 2006 by McChris
Foreign Policy Passport: The Pitchman
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez boosted the Amazon sales rank of Noam Chomsky's *Hegemony or Survival* from 39,513 to 21 after recommending it in a speech at the United Nations.
globalization  Venezuela  politics  books  UN 
september 2006 by McChris
Vanity Fair: Help the Warmongers Help Themselves
A gag cover to put on issues of conservative opinion journal The Weekly Standard. It's interesting to see a mainstream publication engage in culture-jamming like this.
prank  hack  media  politics  magazine 
september 2006 by McChris
Prisoners of Katrina - Google Video
BBC documentary about inmates at Orleans Parish Prison kept in lockup as the city flooded. It's interesting how the sheriff was politicking all through Katrina and its aftermath.
documentary  disaster  politics  video 
september 2006 by McChris
What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA
Not only was she a covert operative, but headed much of the Iraq operation.
CIA  war  politics  lies 
september 2006 by McChris
Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?
Aaron Schwartz crunched the numbers and it seems that a core group of 500 editors do most of the grunt work on Wikipedia, while most new content comes from casual users.
wikipedia  production  statistics  politics  power 
september 2006 by McChris
David Rees: How to Look at People on a Roof
The creator of the comic "Get Your War On" remembers Hurricane Katrina with a creative interactive piece.
disaster  politics  race  humor 
august 2006 by McChris
Bush Explains His "Ek-A-Lec-Tic" Reading List: "I Also Read Three Shakespeares"...
This had me rolling when I saw it on MSNBC. Brian Williams presses the president on the news that he read Camus's The Stranger - a book about a white man killing an Arab for no reason - and hilarity ensues.
video  books  news  politics 
august 2006 by McChris
The City's Wireless Mesh Explained, Part one...
This very informative post describes the political, technical, legal, and economic forces that led to the design of the outdoor wireless network in downtown Austin.
austin  wifi  politics  utilities 
august 2006 by McChris
Aljazeera.Net - Winning Arab hearts and minds
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has become a folk hero in the Arab world.
politics  globalization 
august 2006 by McChris
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Lego
toys  humor  satire  politics  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
On Massively Multiplayer Propoganda...
Tom Coates calls the application Give Israel Your United Support "a really troubling kind of troll-supporting political malware, representing a technologically-empowered massively-distributed form of propoganda that I've never seen before." Read the whole
blog  israel  astroturf  politics  war 
august 2006 by McChris
Elections and a great deal of hope
This overview of Sunday's elections in the DRC emphasizes the social impact of the militias that fought in Congo's civil wars and how victims and militia members living side-by-side has created tension in the nation.
Congo  Africa  elections  politics  war 
july 2006 by McChris
Foreign Policy: Congo’s Implausible Democracy
Analysis of the upcoming elections in the DRC, the first since it gained independence in 1960 and two devastating wars in the 1990s.
Africa  Congo  elections  politics  war 
july 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Corporate Media Censors MoveOn
First Adbusters, now MoveOn has an ad rejected by broadcasters for having an anti-corporate message. It won't happen under this adminstration, but the FCC needs to regulate advertising, so these opinions can enter the "marketplace of ideas."
advertising  broadcast  power  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
The Onion: Congress Abandons WikiConstitution
An Onion story related to wikis that's actually pretty clever.
satire  wiki  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
Public Access pitted against You Tube in Florida
YouTube is to public access as cable is to public broadcasting. Local politicians reject a public access proposal arguing that the internet addresses the need for citizen-produced content.
publicaccess  publicpolicy  TVontheWeb  politics  citizensmedia 
july 2006 by McChris
Can Blogging Derail Your Career?
Siva Vaidhyanathan discusses Juan Cole's role as a blogging academic and the controversies that surround him. It's nice to see The Chronicle run a piece favorable to blogging.
academic  blog  politics  power  publicsphere 
july 2006 by McChris
Israelis Bomb Beirut, Baalbak Again Tank Incursion...
More Juan Cole commentary on Israel's disgusting bombing of civilian targets in Lebanon. He says, "this is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing of the Shiites of southern Lebanon, an assault on an entire civilian population's way of life."
war  islam  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
OpenWiki
This is a wiki devoted to documenting issues related to anarchism and direct action activism. I'm not sure why they don't just start an anarchy WikiProject on Wikipedia, but the adminstrative structure there is increasingly hierarchical.
anarchism  wiki  activism  citizensmedia  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
Stabbed in the Back! (Harpers.org)
I'm not sure I buy this 100%, but this piece describes the "Stabbed in the Back" rhetorical strategy used by conservatives. They argue that internal disagreement is at fault for disastrous wars like Vietnam and Iraq.
history  politics  war  anti-war  meme 
july 2006 by McChris
Wired News: MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song
power  myspace  copyright  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
Talking Points Memo: brutal, astonishing and final dispatch
A prominent neocon describes horrific scenes from the recent violence in Iraq. Josh Marshall suggests that this may represent the end of any substantial support for the war in Iraq.
war  politics  islam 
july 2006 by McChris
27B Stroke 6: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the Internet
This has been posted everywhere, but if you haven't read it yet, you must. I don't fault senior-citizen senators for not being up on technology developments, but they are responsible for hiring staffers that understand the issues.
networkneutrality  news  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
Defending Markos And the Discourse Revolution
Juan Cole's take on the political establishment's increasingly strident criticism of blogs like Daily Kos. There's not that much new here, but it's worth reading nonetheless.
blog  politics  power  media 
june 2006 by McChris
"Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren't": An Interview with Ann Coulter
Jambase.com sits down with the professional troll to discuss the Grateful Dead.
music  politics  scary  fandom 
june 2006 by McChris
Police attack striking teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico
I've been meaning to post something about the actions in Oaxaca, and this will have to do.
politics  labor  globalization 
june 2006 by McChris
Unpacking My Library: The Perils of the Blogging Academic?
Chris Anderson of NY IMC and Columbia University has a thoughtful post responding to Yale's decision not to hire power-blogging professor Juan Cole after Zionist and right-wing pressure groups fought the departments' decision to hire Cole.
academic  blog  power  politics 
june 2006 by McChris
Boiling the Frog – a Net Neutrality Metaphor
This article provides useful insights into the political strategies behind the telco's efforts to implement network discrimination.
politics  publicpolicy  telecom  networkneutrality 
may 2006 by McChris
Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
DeLay's legal fund features a clip of Colbert's interview with Robert Greenwald on its site. Can they really be this dumb?
stupid  satire  TV  texas  politics 
may 2006 by McChris
Orphan Works Bill Introduced
Lamar Smith introduced this? Regardless, creating a roadmap for moving abandoned works into the public domain is a step in the right direction.
politics  law  intellectualproperty  copyright 
may 2006 by McChris
A 2006 Campaign Ad
The telco lobby is considering running ads using the threat of child predators to spread FUD about network neutrality. Too bad the Christian Coalition has come out in support of neutrality.
lies  telecom  politics  networkneutrality 
may 2006 by McChris
WikiThePresidency
This wiki collects information about the misdeeds of the Republican Party and Bush administration.
crime  lies  citizensmedia  politics  wiki 
may 2006 by McChris
Tuned In - Stephen Colbert and the Death of "The Room"
Great post suggesting that Colbert's White House press corp performance was playing to the Internet audience. "In other words, what anyone fails to get who said Colbert bombed because he didn't win over the room is: the room no longer matters."
satire  politics  TV  TVontheWeb 
may 2006 by McChris
Net Neutrality (or the lack of) in the Draft Senate Telecom Bill
Proposed wording regarding network neutrality in the senate bill. I guess it's codifying the Senate's intention to look into net neutrality issues, rather than putting net neutrality into law.
publicpolicy  politicaleconomy  politics  networkneutrality 
may 2006 by McChris
Political dirty-tricksters using Wikipedia
This Associated Press story provides an overview of how political campaigns are tampering with the information in Wikipedia. Scroll down for a nice infographic about Wikipedia.
politics  thereal  wikipedia 
may 2006 by McChris
US State Department abuses Wikipedia
Little Inquirer story about how the US State Department is using content from Wikipedia. I think the author has the US Secretary of State (Condi Rice) confused with a state official with a similar title.
co-optation  politics  power  wikipedia 
may 2006 by McChris
Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner
Crooks and Liars entry with video of Stephen Colbert's address to the president and press. It's hard to imagine anyone taking "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg" in stride.
humor  awesome  politics  video  TVontheWeb  satire 
april 2006 by McChris
Eric Boehlert: Wired Magazine Owes Al Gore An Apology
As Atrios points out, the online Wired News is a separate organization with different owners from Wired Magazine.
history  politics  newmedia  earth 
april 2006 by McChris
CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs
CIA now uses blogs to get public opinion data.
politics  power  blog  surveillance 
april 2006 by McChris
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