More on Haiti Part 5
Please forward any suggestions for links to poetry@therumpus.net. Seems like Rush Limbaugh wasn’t satisfied with being the second-most-dickish person on the Haiti earthquake (though I use the term person loosely).…
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Alt Weakly
For some reason this hasn’t attracted much notice nationally, but this last week the San Francisco Bay Guardian won a whopping $21 million dollar judgment against Village Voice Media for…
More on Haiti Part 4
Thanks to everyone who’s been sending in links. Keep them coming to poetry@therumpus.net. So where exactly did Pat Robertson get his “deal with the devil” story from? Thomas Rogers brings…
More on Haiti Part 3
Any tips or suggestions should be sent to Brian at poetry@therumpus.net. James Ridgeway at Mother Jones notes that most of the country only seems to hear about Haiti when there’s…
More on Haiti, Part 2
I’ll be doing this until further notice. Any tips or suggestions should be sent to Brian at poetry@therumpus.net. A couple more suggestions for places to donate: The Hunger Site, Partners…
What Smart People Are Saying About Google.cn
As we mentioned earlier, Google is rethinking its operations in China after human rights activists’ email accounts were hacked. So what does it all mean? “As direct a challenge to…
More on Haiti
President Obama’s statement on Haiti. UN First Responders HQ was among the buildings destroyed. More from UN Dispatch. Images from the NY Times. An update from Médecins sans Frontiéres. Many…
A Wall too Great?
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government…
Haiti–Ways to Help
I can’t begin to tell you how bad the destruction is in Haiti after the massive earthquake yesterday. Reports right now are that the death toll is expected to be…
Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee
Facebook employees, after all, know better than most the value of privacy.
Random Media Notes
Amazon reports that Kindle Books outsold real books on Christmas day (and Mashable shows why that’s just PR smoke and mirrors). An argument for schools to stop blocking social networking…
Random Media Notes
David Carr counts the media industry’s blessings: “After a Year of Ruin, Some Hope.” The Economist rolls out a social networking plan. Condé Nast was hacked: a large swath of…