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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests [...]
Via Kevin Kelly’s ct2
It is available as a 24 x 26 poster ($30).
South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Allison Stokke, reluctant Internet celebrity
Love the headline, which is for an article about the stunning Ms Allison Stokke (above) who has become an unwilling Internet celebrity thanks to the photo above being posted on a sports blog. Click the picture to go to the Washington Post story about the whole affair.
High laugh rate for me: http://www.techakke.com
http://www.lastminute-auction.com/
I received my first Gouranga Spam today. Wikipedia explains.
One of Opera best features is its programmable searches and bookmark aliases. It allows one to to configure the browser to search from virtually anything right from the address bar.
For example I can type: g [space] “getting things done” and it will invoke google to search for “Getting Things Done”. It can even handle [...]