February 2011
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Al Jazeera English now streams live on YouTube →
January 2011
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Computer hackers get their own reality show →
LIGATT Security International, (Pink Sheets: LGTT) a premier cyber security company, employees agree to their own reality show based in the Atlanta and Los Angles offices. This will be the first Cyber Security Company reality show in the history of television. CEO Gregory Evans will not be the main focus of the weekly docu-series; however he will be sharing the spotlight with his team of...
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Did a Florida judge just kill health care reform? →
Ezra Klein:
Roger Vinson, the second Republican judge to rule on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, has, as expected, ruled against it. More surprising is that he’s decided that the presence of the mandate means the rest of the law is unconstitutional, too, which is an extremely radical step. The full ruling has a very Bush v. Gore feeling, as Vinson concedes that his...
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20 ways to circumvent the Egyptian government’s... →
soupsoup:
via Xeni Jardin
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Mashable's NextUp NYC: The Emerging Skills of... →
mashable:
As part of Social Media Week,we’re hosting our fifth NextUp NYC event to discuss the skills that news organizations will demand and the tools journalists will need to be successful as they redefine the way they report, produce and distribute their content. There will be networking and a conversation led by Vadim Lavrusik, our community manager and social media strategist, with:
Jay...
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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces results of... →
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the results of a New York City undercover investigation of gun sales at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show in Phoenix, Arizona. The investigation proves on video how easy it is to obtain firearms with high capacity magazines at gun shows, even for those who tell sellers that they probably couldn’t pass a background check. A Glock pistol...
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Dog takes bullet to save master →
“He saw the blood and was furious,” Persisco told Brazilian newspaper Globo. “He left like a rocket to attack the thieves. One of them ran away, but Max dominated the other one. To defend himself, the thief ended up shooting the dog. Max thwarted the assault and saved my life.”
Max was hit twice in his chest and once in his leg, but by then he had scared off the potential thieves.
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“Just spoke with staffer at the Cairo bureau. While our correspondent and other...”
– Al Jazeera’s producer in the Egyptian (via newsflick)
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Why Egypt Matters →
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Egypt: The Al Jazeera English Correspondents Who... →
(Shiulie Ghosh)
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WikiLeaks: "The American Embassy in Cairo helped a... →
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“That is meaningless. How out of touch can you be?… He behaves like a man who has...”
– Egyptian columnist and author Mona El Tahamy, responding to President Mubarak’s speech, on Al Jazeera English. (via pantslessprogressive)
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Surprise! Fox News Bumps Glenn Beck for Live Egypt... →
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How Egypt Shut Down Its Internet →
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BBC Live Coverage
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BBC’s live coverage available here http://bbc.in/eE9k7g
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“I will designate a new government to step in tomorrow.”
– Mohamed Hosni Sayyid Mubarak, President of Egypt (via soupsoup)
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I need a real logo. What do you think it should...
I want to adopt a more fitting logo for Creeping Jesus. Let me know if you have any suggestions for how it should look.
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Iraq: The "real" reason for uprisings in the... →
I doubt if you will read or hear this in the mainstream media but I think what is happening here is that the politically repressed people in these authoritarian Middle Eastern countries have been monitoring the events in Iraq over the past several years. They have had a front row center seat watching the birth and evolution of a new Iraqi democracy with its politically empowered people and...
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under politics, dogs,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #politics, #dogs, #culture
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Online reporting: Give credit where credit is due →
joecoscarelli:
Here’s how a reporter loses credit for his work:
On Monday, dude who made phone calls reports exclusively in Women’s Wear Daily that Kate Winick, a senior editor for Worth magazine, crashed a $250,000 Bentley during a test drive for members of the press.
That same day, MyFoxPhilly.com reports the same story, using the phrase “Women’s Wear Daily reported Monday” in the first...
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producermatthew asked: Wait, what? How'd you nab KFC's secret recipe?
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