Pinboard: bookmarks for Seumas tagged 'media'

The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing - Forbes

Essentially, the list of charges is that the near 1 million people who work for Foxconn (about 230,000 of whom produce products for Apple, the others assembling for Dell, HP, just about every electronics company in fact) have to work long hours for low pay in dangerous conditions.

Well, yes, they’re poor people living in a poor country. That’s what being poor means, having to work extremely hard to make very little. Yes, that is a harsh thing to say but then reality can indeed be harsh.

To show that it’s not just uncaring neoliberals like myself who say such things why not try reading Paul Krugman on the subject of sweatshops? Specifically, here, on what would happen if we were to try and stop the manufacturing being done in such poor places:

2012 january 2012_01_29 tim_worstall forbes article news editorial commentary china chinese boycott apple manufacturing media economics foxconn business industry
february 2012 by Seumas

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National Jukebox LOC.gov

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

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may 2011 by Seumas

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LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things

LastPass acted exactly like we wish most companies would act: responsibly. And the press’ response? Declaring LastPass “hacked” and “vulnerable”, and placing them in the same category as Sony—who stored passwords and complete credit card information in plain text, and were actually hacked—with sensationalist headlines like:

may 2011 2011_05_08 lastpass hack disclosure opinion commentary password passwords media technology tech
may 2011 by Seumas

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Sarah Palin Baby Hoax

An interesting footnote has emerged to a theory that raged around the Internet during Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President:

The theory is that Sarah Palin is actually the grandmother of her purported son Trig, not the mother, and that she staged a gigantic hoax during the campaign to cover up this fact.

business_insider article news henry_blodget palin sarah_palin trig bristol_palin government media america united_states united_states_of_america politics pregnancy april 2011 2011_04_13
april 2011 by Seumas

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The Rick Emerson Show's Thanksgiving Spectacular: 2009 on Vimeo - rickemerson.com

A multimedia extravaganza direct from Tim Riley's palatial West Side manor, where an evening of food, drink, and rapturous holiday spirit help us ring in the holiday season. It's a gathering replete with friends, laughter, Tofurkey, bacon, and significant amounts sugars in various states of fermentation...and all that that implies. You'll have a fly-on-the-wall seat to the culinary and social event of the year, a night of conviviality and carbohydrates featuring Rick, Sarah, Tim, and Greg, as well as many of The Rick Emerson Show extended family

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december 2009 by Seumas

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Geeks tune in to their time

Listeners calling in to Rick Emerson’s radio show recently were given an unusual choice if they wanted to win a pair of concert tickets. They could either identify one of the band’s songs after listening to a few notes, or answer a question about the

am970 rickemersonshow rick emerson sarah dylan sarahxdylan rickemerson tim riley timriley radio talk culture discussion media cbs portlandtribune article news dawn taylor dawntaylor am
may 2008 by Seumas

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Internet Archive (f)

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

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december 2006 by Seumas

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