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20 Mar 07

MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users - New York Times

  • MySpace says that it will block these pieces of third-party software — also
    called widgets — when they lend themselves to violations of its terms of
    service, like the spread of pornography or copyrighted material. But it also
    objects to widgets that enable users to sell items or advertise without
    authorization, or without entering into a direct partnership with the
    company.

19 Mar 07

All the World’s a Story - New York Times

  • A new experiment wants to broaden the network to include readers and their sources. Assignment Zero (zero.newassignment.net/), a
    collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.Net, the experimental
    journalism site established by Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New
    York University    , intends to use not only the wisdom of the crowd, but their
    combined reporting efforts — an approach that has come to be called
    “crowdsourcing.”

Senator Insists Bush Aides Testify Publicly - New York Times

  • The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal
    prosecutors insisted Sunday that Karl
    Rove     and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under
    oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress and the White House, which has
    said it is unlikely to agree to such a demand.
15 Mar 07

Catherine Orenstein - Op-Ed Writing Seminars - New York Times

  • During the seminar Ms. Orenstein laid out a basic formula for writing a 750-word
    op-ed piece (with the caution that “common sense trumps everything I say”): a
    lead connected to a news hook, a thesis, three points of evidence, conclusion.
    And don’t forget the “to be sure” paragraph in order to pre-empt your opponents’
    comeback, she instructed.
13 Mar 07

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  • thank goodness for my lifetime drexel.edu email!

     - ashleystar on 2007-03-13
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The First Post : Democrats take on Fox

  • The loudmouths at the Fox News studios
    up on Sixth Avenue are warming up for the presidential election.


    Ann Coulter, she of the micro-skirt and acerbic tongue,
    declared former Senator John Edwards, Democratic candidate, a 'faggot' for his
    support of gay rights. Then Roger Ailes, a Republican spinmaster before Rupert
    Murdoch put him in charge of Fox News, made a Barack Obama/Osama bin Laden joke
    in a speech.


    The Democrats said that "went too far" and reacted by spiking
    a televised debate for their primary candidates which was to have been
    co-sponsored and broadcast by Fox in Nevada in August. Edwards, riled by
    Coulter, had already pulled out.


    It is a telling confrontation.

The First Post : Has David Lynch lost his way?

  • The whole film bears more resemblance to a music video than to his masterpiece Mulholland Drive. And, as tends to be the case with digital cinema, the emphasis has gone from a measured, thought-through stage of pre-production to the endless tinkerings of post-production.
  • But one thing that cannot be passed off as eccentricity is his reaction to the digital age.
09 Mar 07

Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet | The Guardian |

  • they've caught on to my mehness. - ashleystar on 2007-03-09
  • Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet

19-year-old girl gang raped for three hours, SHE gets 90 lashes

  • A 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men
    who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced
    under the country's Islamic-based law to 90
    lashes     for the "crime" of being alone with a man not related to her

For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict - New York Times

  • Mr. Cheney is arguably the most powerful vice president in American history, and
    perhaps the most secretive
  • Mr. Cheney’s critics, and even some of his supporters, said the vice president
    had been diminished.
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CNN.com: Companies to pull ads from Coulter's Web site

  • At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter's Web
    site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring
    to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."
01 Mar 07

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal

  • "By 2010 we will need [a further] 50 million barrels a day. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies." - US Vice President Dick Cheney - ashleystar on 2007-03-01
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