Boing Boing: US copyright head: world “totally rejects” webcasting restrictions
WTF is up with people?
Supreme Court Reopens Abortion Issue on Alito’s First Day – New York Times
Women’s right to life threatened by crazy “pro-lifers”.
Today on Earshot we spoke to Helen Nissenbaum of the Law School and Department of Culture and Communications about Plagiarism.
Here is part one of Moment Capturing, my collaboration with Jaki Levy.
This is one of a pair of videos I made with Jaky Levy inspired by Jay Dedman’s idea of Momentshowing.
I’m all about showing moments, but capturing them is another thing altogether.
This is an apology from a group of Arab and Muslim youth to Norway, Denmark and Sweden (the poor Swedes must be wondering how the hell they got mixed up in this farce).
This in particular is very well said:
“The problem with media representation of such issues tends to be that the media only picks up the loudest voices, ignoring the rational ones that do not generate as much noise. Voices that seek tolerance, dialogue and understanding are always drowned out by the more sensationalist loud calls, giving viewers the impression that these views are representative of all the Arab public’s view.”
