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Mr Brooke

Mind-blowing animated GIF - Boing Boing - 0 views

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animated gif 3.4_internet

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  • Mr Brooke on 04 Dec 12
     
    More mind blowing animated GIFs
Mr Brooke

From Me To You - 1 views

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2.5_digital_entertainment animated_GIF

shared by Mr Brooke on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 23 Apr 11
     
    Nice series of subtle animated pictures
The Zhan

Are the WikiLeaks War Docs Overhyped Old News? | Danger Room | Wired.com - 1 views

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shared by The Zhan on 17 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Longtime Afghanistan watchers are diving into Wikileaks’ huge trove of unearthed U.S. military reports about the war.
  • For one thing — and this supports Exum’s argument — many, if not most, of these documents are frontline reports.
  • That both clarifies the focus of individual reports and limits the degree to which any analyst can responsibly extrapolate them into clear trends.
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  • And some of the heavy-breathing accounts surrounding the documents don’t really match what the logs say. “Taliban sympathisers listening in to top-secret phone calls of US-led coalition,” pants the Guardian.
  • here’s a bias in journalism toward believing that what’s secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth. That operating principle animates reporters’ practice of breaking down governmental secrecy. But it can also create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations.
  • Whether they add up to more than the sum of their parts is a judgment.
  • The Zhan on 17 Nov 10
     
    There's a bias in journalism toward believing that what's secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth,which can create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations. When these don't manifest, it creates an expectation that the trove is neither useful nor significant. In this case, that would be a mistake.
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