links for 2008-06-29

• Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  Article about "source amnesia" which leads people "to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true."
  (tags: ideas media journalism psychology)
• Bloggingheads: Pro-Spying Consensus | New York Times Video
  "Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and former Rep. Bob Barr, Libertarian presidential candidate, discuss why the FISA bill is succeeding."
  (tags: surveillance u.s.a. law privacy freespeech csr congress)
• Reality Sandwich | Beyond Brand Obama
  "He's pretty damn good...But there are a few ways in which his candidacy also reinforces some of the branded, celebrity-based, and charismatic techniques of traditional politics. To make the most of his candidacy and, hopefully, his presidency, we'll have
  (tags: politics vote2008 obama)
• Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun29 08 - Robin Good's Latest News
  "cool new tools and services to create presentations online, arrange your pictures in slideshows, record any region of your screen, and also to download YouTube videos and add captions to them."
  (tags: newmedia tools web2.0)
• Global Voices Summit: My Concluding Thoughts (wow!) « iRevolution
  Patrick Meier has done some great blogging from the Global Voices Citizen Media summit. This is just one of his many posts.
  (tags: globalvoices citizenmedia cyber-activism)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Global Voices and collective decisionmaking
  "How do 70 opinionated people from around the world make up their collective minds?"
  (tags: globalvoices citizenmedia cyber-activism)
• …My heart’s in Accra » China, bias, misunderstanding
  "There are a lot of situations where we end up with cultural misunderstanding and failure to communicate due to a failure to consider the audience of remarks."
  (tags: globalvoices cyber-activism citizenmedia)
• …My heart’s in Accra » GV Summit: Elections and citizen media
  "If there’s a single subject that gets bloggers excited, incensed and interested, it’s elections."
  (tags: globalvoices elections citizenmedia cyber-activism)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Rising Voices at the Budapest Summit
  "I’m blown away every time I read about the work the Rising Voices grantees are doing..."
  (tags: citizenmedia risingvoices globalvoices cyber-activism digitaldivide)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Global Voices Summit: The Open Net Initiative and internet censorship
  "In our conference room, we’ve got an amazing cross-section of free speech activists in censored nations - several people introduce themselves by talking about their banned websites, or the prison sentences they’ve served due to their online speech."
  (tags: globalvoices citizenmedia cyber-activism censorship humanrights freespeech)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

Obama or McCain? I'm sorry to the American people, but you guys will be disappointed once more.

Imagine, 3 years after Obama became President, how do you think your life will change?

Now, imagine, 3 years after McCain became Presdient, how do you think your life will change?

Like I say, I'm sorry. Maybe its time to consider emigrating. At least the US dollar will go a longer way that is if you still have savings and inflation hasn't eaten them up.