Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short
messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The
message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in
the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt
who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.
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The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.
He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times - 0 views
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developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one
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Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books
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“I guess it makes sense now as to why the book was so awful and frustrating.”
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Leaders in Haiti are looking for a new prime minister as the Caribbean nation tries to recover from a week of deadly food riots.
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Six people have been killed in Haiti during violent protests against the high cost of food. The victims include a United Nations peacekeeper from Nigeria who was shot and killed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
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crisis has sparked recent food riots in several countries including Haiti, the Philippines and Egypt
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Emergency help would include an additional $10m (£5m) to Haiti, where several people were killed in food riots last week, and a doubling of agricultural loans to African farmers.
Google Unveils Tool To Track Refugees Worldwide - TechNow News Story - KNTV | San Franc... - 0 views
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Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world. The maps will aid humanitarian operations as well as help inform the public about the millions who have fled their homes because of violence or hardship, according to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is working with Google on the project.
THE END(S) OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing K... - 0 views
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Today's investment in and calls for public anthropology are one symptom of the profound rupture and reorganization of the research agendas of social/cultural anthropology as it moved away from the four-field organization of anthropology into an alignment with certain humanities-driven, energetically interdisciplinary appropriations of the concerns of the social sciences in the name of "theory." In anthropology, this story can most cogently be told by focusing on what happened to its central professional culture of method: what ethnography looks like today and the conditions of research, encompassing fieldwork, that produce it. This article is an examination of this reorganization of social/cultural anthropology, which has left the center of the discipline intellectually weak relative to the vitality of its diverse interdisciplinary and even nonacademic engagements. It asks whether this post-1980s reorganized social/cultural anthropology might rediscover and reunite with some of its historic core associations (four-field as well as topical) in the new terrains of research and partnerships on the peripheries of its old disciplinary center.
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The Wikileaks site claims to have posted 1.2 million leaked government and corporate documents that it says expose unethical behavior, including a 2003 operation manual for the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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