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Audrey B

In Iran, Cyber-activism Without the Middle-man - PCWorld - 1 views

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Iran Election Cyber Twitter YouTube Protest

shared by Audrey B on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Twitter, which are giving Iranian citizens and supporters of the government protests there new ways of involving themselves in the political struggle.
  • They've let Iranians and supporters of the protesters share information, even within the centrally controlled Internet service in Iran and connected people like Papillon to a country on the other side of the world.
  • Proxy servers are Web sites that let people visit parts of the Internet that would normally be blocked to them.
    • Audrey B
      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      Allowing people in Iran to speak up!
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  • Web 2.0 is paving new routes around Internet censorship.
  • Nowhere is Internet activism more visible than on Twitter
  • t's amazing how naturally people who are not necessarily technical have found ways to organize information on-line and decide who to trust using things as simple as Twitter -- a 140 character micro-blogging service with a basic search feature. "It's a pretty incredible counter-intelligence network," he said.
  • proxy servers have become a critical conduit for information.
  • In recent days these social media networks are getting more important as mainstream reporters have been confined to their hotel rooms on government orders or forced to head home when their visas expire.On YouTube users can find street scenes in Iran, including videos of protesters being beaten and shot by police. "The traditional media is in some ways not able to provide it because there are restrictions placed on them by the Iranian government," said YouTube spokesman Scott Rubin ."It's the citizens stealing the story."
    • Audrey B
      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      News reporters assist in allowing civil disobedience. It mentions that on YouTube, there are certain videos that would not be shown on public television. However, by using the web, we are not limited in what we can see in the world. Things are not hidden from us. The web tells it how it is and doesn't beat around the bush. This is important. Citizens are telling the story. Afterall, shouldn't government be run by the people? This is what Thoreau believed and what he practiced resulting in the writing of his revolutionary essay "Civil Disobedience". Hearing, Tweeting, and Viewing the stories of the citizens, of those being attacked or denied certain rights creates an appeal to unite and defy government (in this case). But to do so civily.
  • "Twitter is such a cut-out-the middleman type of situation,"
  • This has made information available to a wider group of people, but it in addition to spreading information about proxy servers, it has made home-grown attack tools available to a wider audience.
  • But soon the anti-government activists realized that DOS attacks were maybe not such a good idea. Not only is it illegal in many countries to launch a DOS attack, but this type of activity also slows down the network throughout Iran, making it hard to get messages out.
  • Twitter, in particular, has proven particularly adept at organizing people and information, said Zittrain. Although Proxies are the most popular way of reaching Twitter, updates can also be sent via other Web applications, SMS (Short Message Service) or even e-mail. "It's a byproduct of the way Twitter was built," he said. "The fact that the APIs are so open has meant that there are already lots of ways to get data in and out of Twitter, that do not rely on direct access to Twitter.com."
  • Audrey B on 22 May 10
     
    Twitter and YouTube both revolutionizing the way to civily defy government.
Ashley Nelson

Unleash Your Imagination - FanFiction.Net - 0 views

www.fanfiction.net

stories collaboration writing fanfiction fanfic identity

shared by Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    A website that is dedicated to making sure that you got the ending you wanted to your favorite show. People can write and make up stories using characters that have already been created like Harry Potter or Batman.
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    This is the site that I refer to in my blog.
Sam McGrath

DNA/The Private Life of Genghis Khan - 2 views

www.douglasadams.com/...980707-07-s.html

Douglas Adams Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy short story humour

shared by Sam McGrath on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • Sam McGrath on 11 May 11
     
    A treat for anyone who's read the Hitchhiker series.
  • Sam McGrath on 11 May 11
     
    For everyone who's read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This is a great short story by Adams that ties in something from the books. If you haven't read the books you might not get the punch line at the end of the story. Enjoy
Sajid Hussain

20 Great Opening Lines to Inspire the Start of Your Story - 0 views

www.dailywritingtips.com/nspire-the-start-of-your-story

Writing

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  • Sajid Hussain on 08 Jul 15
     
    As Glinda the Good Witch says in The Wizard of Oz, "It's always best to start at the beginning." That's where editors and literary agents generally get going,
Aly Rutter

Contact me | eBookAnoid - 2 views

www.ebookanoid.com/contact-me

eBooks

shared by Aly Rutter on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • Aly Rutter on 31 May 11
     
    An idea of where we could get our ebook posted, or at least a link. Maybe we could find other eBook-obsessed bloggers who would like to share our class's story
Aly Rutter

Lessig's "Rootstrikers" Project - 0 views

rootstrikers.org

Remix Lawrence Lessig Rootstrikers

shared by Aly Rutter on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Aly Rutter on 09 May 11
     
    Website dedicated to helping people tell stories about how their lives have been corrupted by the government
Gideon Burton

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications will Transform via Cybermetrics - 3 views

www.academicevolution.com/...ications-must-transform-6.html

shared by Gideon Burton on 26 May 10 - Cached
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      Gideon Burton on 26 May 10
       
      Note the features of this online writing: -situates itself relative to ongoing discussion (via explicit reference and links) -contains an explicit thesis statement early in the post -includes headings to make subsections easier to navigate and the longer post easier to read -includes appropriate images to draw interest, break up the text, and illustrate the argument -includes mild use of formatting options for emphasis (highlighting in this case) -includes hyperlinks to references -quotes and cites both traditional and online sources (uses the blockquote formatting for a longer quote) -links not only to sources for quotations, but to relevant entities or organizations, or to discussions of the issue (maybe less scholarly, but timely and relevant) -rhetorically, it lays out a story about the past, situates a phenomenon in the present, and discusses the impact for the future of these ideas within our more mediated digital environment -includes relevant tags -has received comments from others (due in part to the author "pinging" or announcing that he'd published a post on his blog via Twitter or other social media
Weiye Loh

Asymptote: Literary Encounters Between Languages and Cultures  | the kent rid... - 0 views

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Language Translation

shared by Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Asymptote is a new, international literary journal dedicated to the translation of literary works, both from various languages to English as well as from English to other languages. It was founded by our very own Singaporean writer, Lee Yew Leong, whose editorial team spans various continents and cultures – South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, America and East Asia – and is a veritable international, multi-cultural and multilingual task force.
  • A ‘classic’ metaphor comes from the Italian – “traduttore, traditore”, which means “translator, traitor”. My teacher had written this phrase on the board in my first translation class, demonstrating her (rather cynical) philosophical stance on the whole project of translation – something is always ‘lost in translation’, and the translator necessarily interferes in this gap of meaning guided her own bias, conscious or unconscious, political or philosophical.
  • In philosophy classes my charismatic and wildly esoteric professor once railed on about the possibility (or impossibility) of commensuration between various little narratives ( petits récits ), given the rejection of ‘modernist’ grand or meta-narratives. But translation, he declared dramatically, the possibility of translation hints at the possibility of commensurability between the little narratives. In his view, little narratives were understood as discrete cultures (Japanese, Iranian, Russian) and inter-cultural communication (and consequent kindness and friendliness amongst humankind) is only possible if translation is possible.
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  • The Asymptote raison d’être is much more optimistic than my translation teacher’s stance, and much less abstruse than that of my philosophy professor’s. The editors write, “We are interested in encounters between languages and the consequences of these encounters. Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our name, “asymptote”: the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend towards but never reach), it is in itself an act of creation. … The value of translation is that it unleashes from latency ideas and emotions to a vast sea of others who do not have access to the language in which these ideas and emotions reside.”
  • With the asymptote, the y-axis and the x-axis will never get lonely, pairing off into the infinite distance and the distant infinity; the original text and its companion translations proliferate in the blinker-free world wide net, reaching a broader readership and our earthly community grows closer with a shared cache of stories, tales, imaginations.
  • In addition, “[n]ot only will [Asymptote] display work in its original language after the English translation, [but they] also encourage translators (especially of poems) to provide audio recordings of the original work so that the reader has access as well to the sounds of that language, via a “Press PLAY” audio option whenever such an MP3 recording is available.” This project straddles cultures, languages as well as media – writing, audio and even visual
  • Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11
     
    Koh Choon Hwee
Ashley Nelson

Blogger, James Joyce - 0 views

rereadinglives.blogspot.com/...es-joyce-day-one-of-irish.html

blog literature

shared by Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11
     
    This is another link from the same man's site, but this link is for the blog he did on one of James Joyce's stories. He actually invites his readers to participate in reading Irish literature for the week and then blog about it. He says that he would then make a master copy of all the blogs. Just thought it was interesting.
Ashley Nelson

Blogger! - 0 views

rereadinglives.blogspot.com/...2011-reviews.html

literature blog

shared by Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11
     
    So I was searching for some blogs about James Joyce and I came across this man's blog, Mel. Talk about being a prolific reader and writer. He reads short stories all the time and posts about each one. I think it is interesting that he started his blog not really think many would read it and now he has almost 500 followers.
Rachael Schiel

The Crowd Knows Best - 1 views

observer.guardian.co.uk/...0,6903,1572869,00.html

wisdom of crowds

shared by Rachael Schiel on 09 May 11 - Cached
  • Rachael Schiel on 09 May 11
     
    Sept 2005, Rugby, sports and how the crowd knew when to be "generous" better than the individual
Ben Wagner

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google

facebook google

shared by Ben Wagner on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ben Wagner on 12 May 11
     
    and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg
Derrick Clements

Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet - Slashdot - 3 views

idle.slashdot.org/...-French-Kiss-Over-The-Internet

shared by Derrick Clements on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Derrick Clements on 06 May 11
     
    Now that's what I call a wearable! Also...um...WHAT?!
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  • Rachael Schiel on 06 May 11
     
    This is an example of the improper use of technology.............
  • Carlie Wallentine on 06 May 11
     
    Haha! I sent this to my long distance boyfriend. He said our class is crazy. Thanks for the laugh.
  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11
     
    um ... ew? :) Dare we ask how you found this?
  • Derrick Clements on 06 May 11
     
    Of course, I was googling robotic kissing methods.
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