March 20th, 2003
PARDON MY FRENCH
yeah. stupid boycott.
AlterNet’s The Mix talks about NYC Tavern on the Green
de-Frenchizing their menu.
Tocqueville Connection French news, in English.
xradiograph
yeah. stupid boycott.
AlterNet’s The Mix talks about NYC Tavern on the Green
de-Frenchizing their menu.
Tocqueville Connection French news, in English.
Virginia Postrel (in 1997, yet still apt) writes on The Lessons of Email Deceit. Basically, she says:
Email is really an oral medium. It only looks like writing. It is the way we converse with each other, time-shifting across continents, writing in the wee hours of the morning, reaching out when the thought of a friend or loved one crosses our mind. We pass on gossip and flip comments. We repeat jokes. We misspell words and speak in shorthand. We are emphatically opinionated. Email has all the authority of a phone conversation. It is not print. It is not even the Web.
But it repeats things verbatim. That fools people. It gives email authority it doesn’t deserve. We’re slowly learning, by embarrassing trial and error, not to take it so seriously.
Fortunately, the verbatim nature of email can also help guard against hoaxes and misunderstandings. They’re easier to spot in written documents than in gossip and conversation. The clues stay put. Email may yet make us better, more skeptical readers–a good lesson in any medium.
no. not Bruce Springsteen. Edwin Starr. Sheesh.
this is updated as I get something new
Where is Raed ? blog from inside Bhagdad.
still posting as of 3/24/2003
Is Raed for real? Paul Boutin thinks it is.
Official Iraq website. Seems to be down as I post. Haven’t seen it myself.
Al Jezira Iraq coverage. In Arabic.
For a partial read, plug the address into Ajeeb’s online Arabic Translation
Here’s the new English Version of al Jazeera
Ajeeb claims to be the “premier Arabic web portal.” They have a news service” as well.
Alternet has a lot of, er, alternative articles.
MediaChannel.org resident noise-maker Danny Schecter
dissects the news.
Brian Flemming’s L.A. warblog covers the LA protests
AntiWar.com antiwar news, viewpoints, activities
Frontier Post from Peshawar, Pakistan
Iraq Daily from the World News Network
Gulf-News from Qatar. yep. the country with no “u”.
Tehran Times straight from Iran
US DoD’s DefenseLink.mil
not just for now: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
Rally Of One a NEPA peace resource.
Get Your War On. THE comic…. Not for the kiddies
The new 3/20/03 strips
Mirror Project: In Protest messages via mirrors
the “US Dept of Art & Technology” authorized artistic acts of mediation
Human Shields updates, etc.
Electro-Hippies’ Iraq Sit-In Web Page a virtual protest
e-protest against the coverage of the Iraqi war. designed to flood the CNN.com website
US Diplomat resigns to protest war
Agression against Iraq Indy Russian journalists site
Regular Everyday People Putting a Human Face on War
On the difficulties of displaying poetry on the web, or in eReaders.
Charles Platt was suspicious of Nickled and Dimed, so he decided to work at WalMart.
