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How an obscure FBI rule is ensuring the destruction of irreplaceable historical records. - By Alex Heard - Slate Magazine

"Fat file theory," a rather obvious guidepost used in the Massachusetts review, holds that if there's a lot of stuff inside a folder, it might be important. - Ed. Digital transition could make some of these problems worse.

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The web that time forgot - Print Version - International Herald Tribune

"People are not necessarily excited to go see an archive. It's like, would you rather go see the latest 'Star Wars' movie, or would you rather go see a giant card catalogue?" - Ed. Uh, have you seen Star Wars lately?

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Why Did So Many Sichuan Schools Collapse? - CaiJing

school buildings were usually completed on tight schedules, with low budgets. They filled a huge need, replacing classroom buildings made of clay that leaked in the rain.

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Media Report - 9August2007 - Surveillance in China and the US

So the US position is that emails that are used with these very popular email services are the equivalent of a postcard. We've had this dramatic weakening of our legal infrastructure and the way it protects our privacy, so in short, in the legal dimension

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BuddyPress » A Wordpress MU Based Social Network Platform

BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.

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FlipText.net - write upside down

write upside down

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Chinese Posters

Stefan Landsberger working with the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

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EastSouthWestNorth: A Day In The Life Of A Chinese Internet Police Officer

The Internet police are only there to catch the periodic leak so as to hold the Internet unit adminstrators accountable for negligence and/or sabotage.

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Web users walk Great Firewall of China - USATODAY.com

China has roughly 30,000 Internet police who use Internet Detective and other tools to monitor Web users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, an arm of China's Ministry of Information Industry.

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Nart Villeneuve - 30,000 Internet Police in China Myth, Please Not Again!

No one I spoke to could tell me where the figure of 30,000 internet policemen originated

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The Internet Timeline of China 1987~1996

a working group led by Professor Wang Yunfeng and Doctor Li Chengjiong built up an Email node in ICA, and successfully sent out an Email to Germany on Sep 20th. The Email title was "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world."

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The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books

I would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself. It should not be understood as if it took the form of hard facts or nuggets of reality ready to be quarried out of newspapers, archives, and libraries, but rather as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission. Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts.

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http://english.people.com.cn/dengxp

note Volume I ends 1965, Vol II begins 1975

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Works of Mao Zedong by Date

(in English)

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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

I heard about this thing called the Internet. I thought, That sounds kind of interesting. The first thing I did is I actually picked up the phone and dialed 411, and I said, I’d like the number for the Internet, please. And the operator is like, What?

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