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Documenting America - 0 views

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documentary photos america history great depression depression newdeal ushistory

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  • ten grrl on 01 Sep 09
     
    The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II.
Leslie Healey

Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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content farms composition

shared by Leslie Healey on 11 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 11 Sep 11
     
    Will be interested to see if therevis a connection between this computer generated text and the myriad of bad info from googled "content farms" that gum up my students' research writing
Adam Babcock

One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown | Save the Internet - 7 views

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censorship internet

shared by Adam Babcock on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Egypt, where the Mubarak regime today reportedly shut down Internet and cell phone communications -- a troubling predictor of the fierce crackdown that has followed.
  • The tools that connect, organize and empower protesters can also be used to hunt them down.
  • Narus provides Egypt Telecom with Deep Packet Inspection equipment (DPI), a content-filtering technology that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from users of the Internet and mobile phones, as it passes through routers on the information superhighway.
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  • arus global customers include the national telecommunications authorities in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- two countries that regularly register alongside Egypt near the bottom of Human Rights Watch's world report.
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