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Archive for October, 2008
§Replace Your Ads With Art
Steve Lambert makes the ads go away. And gives away money.
Terms: Add-on, Advertising, Firefox, Steve Lambert, Visual Art
§Eavesdropping and Propaganda
ABC news airs the tales of two NSA whistleblowers on their illegal surveillance of US citizens, and the FCC confirms they are investigating the pentagon’s program to employ military analysts as talking heads in support of the Iraq war.
Terms: Eavesdropping, James Bamford, NSA, Propaganda, surveillance, Warrantless Wiretapping
§Stephen McLaughlin and the False Anthology
A student published a 3,785 page anthology of poems that were all written by 3,164 contemporary poets. Or a robot.
Terms: Blogosphere, Flarf, For Godot, Poetics, Poetry Community, Stephen McLaughlin
§Fake a Death, Short the Market
The SEC thinks somebody shorted the market after falsely reporting that Steve Jobs had a heart attack on CNN’s iReport. What does this mean for crowd sourced journalism?
Terms: Citizen Journalism, Crowd Sourcing, iReport, Media law, Shield Law, Steve Jobs
§Frankie Two Thumbs
The photography of Frank Hamilton. Choice.
Terms: Frank Hamilton, Frankie Two Thumbs, Photography, Wham City
§Of Rachel Ehrenfeld, Libel Tourism & H.R. 6146
In reaction to Khalid bin Mahfouz’s libel victory against author Barbara Ehrenfeld, the US House has passed the “Libel Tourism” bill to afford journalists more protection from lawsuits.
Terms: Defamation, Khalid bin Mahfouz, Libel Tourism, Media law, Rachel Ehrenfeld
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