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April 20, 2008 News and Trends
CBC: It’s a “bungle”! No it’s a “blunder”! Hang on: it’s a “gaffe”!
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:43:41 PDT
CBC: It’s a “bungle”! No it’s a “blunder”! Hang on: it’s a “gaffe”! It ain’t good, that’s for sure! Just yesterday I had to update my Monday blog entry because the fair and balanced state-owned CBC Newsworld kept changing its mind about the Conservative government’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Bernier, and how to officially describe his, um, verbal malfunction. On Monday I showed you how Canada’s cable news networks—the state-owned one and the citizen-owned one against which t
Hamas: thinking the thinkable
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:03:33 PDT
Hamas: the case for engagement, Jeroen GunningThe trend of events in Gaza in the first months of 2008 has highlighted once again that the current situation is untenable. From Hamas's bulldozing the border-fence with Egypt to enable Gazans to break out of their international blockade and stock up on food and energy essentials, to the rocket-att -
Broadcast Spoofs
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:50:15 PDT
The Onion mastered the sendup of print news. Has it done the same with video?
40 Years Ago Today
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:38:59 PDT
Enoch Powell gave a speech to the Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham. "Rivers of Blood". I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history. In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:27:37 PDT
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference By Bruce Byfield on April 17, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) Building on the success of last year's Vancouver PHP Conference, the Vancouver PHP Users Association on April 14-15 drew more than 350 to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center to learn about the trends in free and open source software on the Web. With speakers from major corporations such as Creative Commons, Facebook, Google, the Mozilla Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, and a h
Real Estate Public Relations
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:17:28 PDT
How to improve your real estate public relations, tips, news, etc.
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news - San Diego Union Tribune
How to open a news feed with fsockopen() in /web-development
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:55:26 PDT
Learn to access a news feed using PHP.
'Forbidden Kingdom' fights to top of box office with $20.9M (AP)
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:50:35 PDT
'Forbidden Kingdom' fights to top of box office with $20.9M (AP) April 20th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) A martial arts dream team Jackie Chan and Jet Li won the weekend as their movie matchup “The Forbidden Kingdom” debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Originally Syndicated via RSS from Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer Does The Right Wing's Job For Them
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:35:29 PDT
There really is no excuse for anything posing as a news network to claim that ‘the blogs are buzzing about this one” and promote it so when any cursory search on the internets would have found numerous examples of just how specious a charge it was — like the video shot from the side here. As John Cole put it: “Notice something problematic?
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news - San Diego Union Tribune
Mediakunst 2.0 with Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:12:54 PDT
Mediakunst 2.0 is the first of three gigs I'll be participating in during my tour through Belgium and the UK starting April 24th and going through May 2nd. Brought to you by various sponsors including Cimatics and Courtisane:Leonardo Book Series authors Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika will participate in "Mediakunst 2.0" presented by Kunstensite vzw and Courtisane festival. The festival will focus on the changing shape and repositioning of media art in the age of Web 2.0. In a string of fast pac
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:43:41 PDT
CBC: It’s a “bungle”! No it’s a “blunder”! Hang on: it’s a “gaffe”! It ain’t good, that’s for sure! Just yesterday I had to update my Monday blog entry because the fair and balanced state-owned CBC Newsworld kept changing its mind about the Conservative government’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Bernier, and how to officially describe his, um, verbal malfunction. On Monday I showed you how Canada’s cable news networks—the state-owned one and the citizen-owned one against which t
Hamas: thinking the thinkable
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:03:33 PDT
Hamas: the case for engagement, Jeroen GunningThe trend of events in Gaza in the first months of 2008 has highlighted once again that the current situation is untenable. From Hamas's bulldozing the border-fence with Egypt to enable Gazans to break out of their international blockade and stock up on food and energy essentials, to the rocket-att -
Broadcast Spoofs
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:50:15 PDT
The Onion mastered the sendup of print news. Has it done the same with video?
40 Years Ago Today
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:38:59 PDT
Enoch Powell gave a speech to the Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham. "Rivers of Blood". I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history. In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:27:37 PDT
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference By Bruce Byfield on April 17, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) Building on the success of last year's Vancouver PHP Conference, the Vancouver PHP Users Association on April 14-15 drew more than 350 to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center to learn about the trends in free and open source software on the Web. With speakers from major corporations such as Creative Commons, Facebook, Google, the Mozilla Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, and a h
Real Estate Public Relations
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:17:28 PDT
How to improve your real estate public relations, tips, news, etc.
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news - San Diego Union Tribune
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago Buried beneath all the sour news of rising foreclosures and declining prices last week was a bit of good news for the San Diego County housing market: ... |
How to open a news feed with fsockopen() in /web-development
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:55:26 PDT
Learn to access a news feed using PHP.
'Forbidden Kingdom' fights to top of box office with $20.9M (AP)
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:50:35 PDT
'Forbidden Kingdom' fights to top of box office with $20.9M (AP) April 20th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) A martial arts dream team Jackie Chan and Jet Li won the weekend as their movie matchup “The Forbidden Kingdom” debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Originally Syndicated via RSS from Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer Does The Right Wing's Job For Them
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:35:29 PDT
There really is no excuse for anything posing as a news network to claim that ‘the blogs are buzzing about this one” and promote it so when any cursory search on the internets would have found numerous examples of just how specious a charge it was — like the video shot from the side here. As John Cole put it: “Notice something problematic?
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news - San Diego Union Tribune
Silver lining in the midst of more bad housing news San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago Buried beneath all the sour news of rising foreclosures and declining prices last week was a bit of good news for the San Diego County housing market: ... |
Mediakunst 2.0 with Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:12:54 PDT
Mediakunst 2.0 is the first of three gigs I'll be participating in during my tour through Belgium and the UK starting April 24th and going through May 2nd. Brought to you by various sponsors including Cimatics and Courtisane:Leonardo Book Series authors Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika will participate in "Mediakunst 2.0" presented by Kunstensite vzw and Courtisane festival. The festival will focus on the changing shape and repositioning of media art in the age of Web 2.0. In a string of fast pac
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