Making Politics Work Better Via Traditional+New Media

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Traditional games online: Making your
move

Traditional games online: Making your
move 06/08/2004 08:25 PM
Pcw.co.uk - Tue Jun 8, 03:55 pm GMT

Traditional media on a downturn?

Traditional media on a downturn? 04/12/2005 09:04 PM
A cursory look at the markets of media and entertainment shows some clear winners and losers, and we don't expect things to change as interactivity and valued add-ons stake their growing importance.

Internet rivalling traditional media

Internet rivalling traditional media 12/03/2003 03:47 PM
Mad.co.uk Dec 3 2003 2:53PM ET

Young Adults To Traditional Media:
Access Denied

Young Adults To Traditional Media:
Access Denied 02/14/2003 11:48 PM
While the nightly national news has transformed itself into People Magazine, young adults have been turning it off in record numbers.

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism 04/05/2005 04:44 PM
Andreas Cervenka, AffŠrsvŠrlden, was working at Sweden's largest daily during the boom and saw a demand for tomorrow's news today, so he started his own new media venture. One thing they started with was the attention of other journalists,...

Boston.com / News / Local / Blogs
colliding with traditional media

Boston.com / News / Local / Blogs
colliding with traditional media 05/10/2004 11:17 PM
Blogs Colliding with Traditional Media .. providing press credentials .. article du Boston Globe

boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/05/10/blogs_colliding_with _traditional_media
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Making CRM Work

Making CRM Work 01/02/2004 03:43 PM
Technology For Finance Jan 2 2004 2:36PM ET

Making Web Communities Work

Making Web Communities Work 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

12 Variables for Understanding Online Communites: Whether or not a Web community thrives or sputters had always been kind of a hit-or-miss affair. This article identifies the 12 most important variables.

The twelve variables we've selected are most likely not all that exist, just the ones we find most important in our thinking right now. These variables struck us as important ways in which communities are differentiated despite the type of software chosen to carry a given community.

Via eLearnSpace.

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Making the numbers work at the new CA

Making the numbers work at the new CA 06/18/2004 08:00 AM
vnunet.com Jun 18 2004 11:56AM GMT

Making Wikipedia Work

Making Wikipedia Work 04/27/2004 03:19 AM
Most people, when they first hear about the fact that anyone can edit a wiki immediately come up with all the reasons why it can't work. However, there are a number of large scale implementations that prove that assertion is false. The biggest, of course, is Wikipedia, and Salon has an article discussing how they deal with the occasional vandals. They treat the wiki process a bit different, and will block and ban certain users if they fail a "three strike" policy. Still, it's yet another example of a successful large scale bottom-up project, which established companies keep telling us are impossible.

Fedora Core 2: Making it Work

Fedora Core 2: Making it Work 07/06/2004 10:06 AM

Making Open Webmail work

Making Open Webmail work 01/06/2004 03:18 AM
Recently I was asked to provide Internet e-mail to a large segment of our hospital community. The mail had to be standards-based to provide the widest compatibility base possible for the 3,000 people who might have need of it. It had to be Web-based, but not overly complicated, and it had to employ open source (read "free") tools to help keep the budget down. Finally, it had to be secure, to comply with HIPAA regulations. To meet those requirements, I deployed Open Webmail, Sendmail, and Red Hat Linux 9 on a 1U IBM Linux machine.

ProNet: Making AJAX work for everyone

ProNet: Making AJAX work for everyone 03/14/2005 06:05 PM
With all the growing excitement around AJAX web development and the new toolkits becoming available, it's important to make sure this new breed of web applications is available for everyone who uses the web. Some useful new references that can...

Making Yahoo! Search Work for You

Making Yahoo! Search Work for You 08/30/2004 03:50 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Yahoo! has long featured a variety of shortcuts meant to make finding information easier, but many don't take the time to learn what those shortcuts are. Find out what you're missing....

PHPBuilder: Making Your Database Do The
Work

PHPBuilder: Making Your Database Do The
Work 01/03/2003 08:54 AM

Making multiple session IDs work in ASP

Making multiple session IDs work in ASP 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
CNET Jun 23 2002 10:22PM ET

Making Web Services Work at Amazon

Making Web Services Work at Amazon 12/09/2003 05:01 PM
Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, presented Tuesday at XML 2003, explaining the decisions involved in making Amazon's puiblic web services strategy a success.

Fedora Core 2: Making it work

Fedora Core 2: Making it work 07/06/2004 03:41 AM
Recently I concluded my review of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) on Linux.com with the words, "It's an important step in the evolution of Linux ... but I won't be using it for production work anytime soon." What a difference a month makes -- I am now using FC2 for production work. Here's how I got around the distro's deficiencies.

Thomas Barnett - Media, Politics, Funny

Thomas Barnett - Media, Politics, Funny 05/21/2004 06:52 AM
Thomas Barnett, the author of The Pentagon's New Map, a book I'm hearing good things about, has a rollicking good blog. (It was the Feedster Site o' the Day earlier this week.) He's been writing rather wickedly about dealing with the media interest in his book recently....

Making USB storage devices work
seamlessly under Linux

Making USB storage devices work
seamlessly under Linux 12/09/2003 03:51 AM
What do you do when your ISP tells you the reason your Windows box can't connect to the network is because its network drivers got corrupted? You download new drivers using your Linux client and use Sneakernet to move them to Windows. USB storage devices like M-Systems' DiskOnKey are extremely useful for ad hoc chores like this, and I was lucky to have one on hand. But how to make Linux mount the device as seamlessly as Windows does?

The Virtues of Chitchat - Making I.T.
Work - CIO Magazine May 15,2004

The Virtues of Chitchat - Making I.T.
Work - CIO Magazine May 15,2004 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
this article about the plogging phenomenon .. Michael Schrage's CIO Magazine column .. CIO magazine on blogs for projects .. plog is short for 'project log' .. The Virtues of Chitchat .. plog

cio.com/archive/051504/work.html
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Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server ...

Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server ... 02/14/2003 08:26 AM
It's a LAMP site, but the M isn't MySQL. Can PHP on the Linux box make the connection to Microsoft SQL Server? A recent project ...

Making MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 work
together, Part 2

Making MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 work
together, Part 2 02/17/2003 07:34 PM
After killing the running processes, I did an su mysql before restarting.0 I had found a note in a Google search from a MySQL developer who suggested not ...

The National Debate - Where Politics,
Policy and the Media Meet

The National Debate - Where Politics,
Policy and the Media Meet 09/01/2004 10:07 AM
done a spread for Playboy .. The National Debate

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The National Debate: Where Policy,
Politics and the Media Meet

The National Debate: Where Policy,
Politics and the Media Meet 08/10/2004 04:15 PM
it was someone who works at Barnes and Noble .. internal malfeasance

thenationaldebate.com/blogger/archive/2004_08_01_TND-ARC HIVE.htm#109208825223358170
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IHateWork Website Accused Of Making
People Hate Work

IHateWork Website Accused Of Making
People Hate Work 04/21/2004 02:09 PM
Some people really do need to get a hobby. A group of small businesses in the UK is apparently angry at an amusement park for coming up with a silly ad campaign that tries to get people to visit IHateWork.co.uk. The Federation of Small Businesses actually believes that this site is making people hate work and skip out for a day to go to the amusement park. Do they actually believe that people who were thrilled with going into work every day suddenly realized, after looking at this site, that they really hate their job and should skip out for a day? Instead of getting all upset about this, perhaps they should have just taken a day off and gone to, I don't know... an amusement park?

Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server Database

Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server Database 02/14/2003 10:43 AM
It's a LAMP site, but the M isn't MySQL. Can PHP on the Linux box make the connection to Microsoft SQL Server?

LinuxWorld: Making MySQL, ODBC &
OpenOffice 1.0 Work Together, Part 2

LinuxWorld: Making MySQL, ODBC &
OpenOffice 1.0 Work Together, Part 2 02/19/2003 03:35 AM
"OpenOffice.org is more sophisticated and powerful than I realized. It can be made to work with various database-management systems, and it can do the mailmerge functions required by many SOHO types. Ease-of-use issues need attention..."

"Making the News" Becomes "We the Media"

"Making the News" Becomes "We the Media" 04/24/2004 12:57 PM

By the way, the title of my book is not going to be "Making the News" after all. It's going to be "We the Media" -- which my publisher thinks is more catchy and likely to get browsers in bookstores to glance again. I can't disagree.

MAKING
POLITICS POLITICALLY CORRECT

MAKING
POLITICS POLITICALLY CORRECT 08/23/2004 02:34 PM

We went out for a delicious dinner last night at a wonderful, and completely packed, restaurant in downtown Toronto (it's called Mildred Pierce, for those who live in the area), and spent some of the time unobtrusively eavesdropping on the conversations at nearby tables. The discussions, much like the one at our own table, vacillated between the very personal (who's dating who, personal anecdotes) and the impersonal (entertainment, sports, weather). But not a single word was uttered about politics: Nothing about Canadian politics (collapse of the right), Ontario politics (health care and education strikes threatened), Toronto politics ('new deal' for cities in peril), US politics (Bush/Kerry), or international politics (Iraq etc.) Not a word. This was a Sunday night so there were no obvious business reasons for steering away from the subject. It just never came up. And it occurred to me that at our annual neighbourhood BBQ on Saturday night no one talked about politics either. Is politics just too boring in Canada or has it become tacitly PI to talk about them, because of the political polarization that seems to be happening everywhere? Is the left-right gulf getting too wide to even try to broach in 'decent conversation'? I appreciate that there is less urgency about politics here in Canada than there is in the US, at least. The election here is over. And I'm told that at least 40% of Americans know personally at least one person on active duty in the Mideast, and that, I would expect, would probably make it a more likely topic of conversation. But some of my American readers tell me that talking about politics in face-to-face conversations is just too uncomfortable for them these days as well -- too likely to lead to arguments. So outside of political rallies and other meetings of like minds they don't talk about it much either. What does this mean? First, it means the end of true political debate -- I don't mean those phony, scripted events where politicians roll out their rehearsed one-liners, I'm talking about articulate exchange of political views and information between real people. If you don't talk with others about politics, how do you form your viewpoints and where do you get your information? From attack ads? I don't think so -- maybe I'm naive but I don't think they work; most people know when they're being manipulated, and won't fall for it. From radio talk shows or editorials or blogs? Most of them are only for people who have already formed an unwavering political opinion on everything, and are merely looking for reassurance and justification for their belief. From television news and the print media? There isn't enough information content in the sound bites and newswire rehashes in most of them to allow an informed decision or point of view on anything. It seems to me that, on almost any political issue, 50% or more of the population is completely disengaged -- even if they care, they don't think anything they do or say or feel will have any impact, so they can't be bothered to voice, or sometimes even form, any strong opinion on it. And the rest are in two, polarized camps, each believing that the other is irrational or immoral or misinformed, hopelessly so, so that meaningful discussion with the 'other side' or with the disengaged majority is impossible or fruitless. So except for the one-way palaver from the political flaks and political advertisers and partisans and oversimplifying mainstream media, there is no political information flow. And there is no discourse, no exchange of ideas or views, no balanced presentation of opposing views, no true political conversation. Because what purpose would it serve? I see an astonishing paradox in modern society -- in an era with unprecedented access to information, most people are ignorant of even the basic facts on most political issues, from the connection between 9/11 and Saddam, to the causes and implications of global warming, to the political situation in Sudan and Venezuela and Chechnya< /a> (not to mention parts of the world less in the news), to the numerous ecological and humanitarian crises that everyone from the Union of Concerned Scientists to Amnesty International is shouting about. Why are so many so ignorant? I think because they choose to be uninformed. Why? Perhaps either because they they can't relate to the issue, or because they don't think there's any point in getting stressed about issues they feel they can do nothing personally about. So you end up in a vicious cycle: The less people know about a subject, the less inclined it is to come up in conversation, so the media conclude there is no interest in it, so they don't cover it, so people know even less. And if they do know about it but feel helpless or disinclined to do anything about it, they don't share their knowledge with others, and eventually with enough indifference the situation gets worse and the solutions become more intractable so people feel even more helpless and disinclined to try to do anything. Political disengagement is infectious, and it's reached epidemic proportions, especially among the young. All of this supports Richard Manning's argument in Against the Grain that politics was and is designed to protect and entrench the status quo. As a result, nothing pleases those with power and money and influence more than massive political indifference and disengagement -- what Gene McCarthy in the 1960s during the fight against the Vietnam War called 'acedia' -- a Greek word meaning spiritual torpor, lack of care, apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue. Unlike the 1960's, the numbers of politically disengaged is inversely proportional to the age bracket -- it is the young who I love so much and have such great hopes for who are least engaged in the political process, who infect each other with their indifference to global issues. But I don't think it's that they don't care. Most of the young people I know are overwhelmed and intimidated by how much those of us who are politically active know about global issues. My teenage granddaughter has read my blog, but says she "doesn't understand it". The young focus their energies and their passion instead on issues in their own networks, local things, things that they can do something about. We need to show them the way to do more. We, who have been in the streets, need to reach out to the young and not-so-young who have given up on the political process (often before they began), and stop drowning them in facts and laying guilt trips on them and filling them up with bad news and instead: Ask them what's important to them (open-ended questions with no preconception of the answers) and listen to their answers, Tell them stories about how the political process has brought about important and positive change, Teach them how the system works, in the context of how it could work to deal with the issues they said were important to them, and Encourage them, starting with something small, to make the system work for them. If we do that, if we can re-engage even a fifth of the people who never vote, who never read about politics or world affairs, who have lived their entire lives in political passivity, we will have started a revolution. Not only will they infect other disengaged peers with the zen of political activism, they will shake the diehard leftists and diehard right-wingers as well, because all of a sudden these new political activists will be up for grabs by whichever group that makes the most articulate, balanced and credible arguments, not by the blowhards who preach to the choir. And these new political activists will, on many issues, hold the political balance of power. The real 'swing voters' are the ones who have never voted before and don't expect to vote in future. Rhetoric won't bring them to the polls. If we can 'activate' them, then conversations about politics will no longer be politically incorrect, and political activism will spread like a virus. As those who fought against the Vietnam War can tell you, political activism is as infectious as political apathy. The defenders of the status quo will be shaking in their boots. And then the revolution we all need, the revolution to save the world, can begin. Cartoon by the incomparable Robert Mankoff (from the New Yorker, of course)

au currant: politics, media & lowbrow
culture: Dubya to feast on Nigella's
bites

au currant: politics, media & lowbrow
culture: Dubya to feast on Nigella's
bites 11/05/2003 03:02 AM
Jackie D has exclusive news of a 'Cool Britannia' throwback: .. au currant reports

miscellaneousetc.com/ac/001498.html
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our "liberal media" at work

our "liberal media" at work 01/10/2004 09:37 AM
This is pretty unbelievable .. TV Editing .. transcript

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"Webl0gs are doing all the work that the
US media did in the past"

"Webl0gs are doing all the work that the
US media did in the past" 03/19/2003 10:28 PM
Regarding Gulf War II: "The only debate in the U.S. media is on the Web, according to Jon Dennis, Guardian...

Notes and Comment on The Media Company I
Want to Work For

Notes and Comment on The Media Company I
Want to Work For 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
"But something else surfaced-- better in a way than the launch of another business. Substantial readiness to get going. Talent waiting for action. A mood of expectation." Plus: "I asked two entrepreneurs about their press think and this is what they told me."

Mark Glaser: The Media Company I Want to
Work For-- Not Someday, But Now

Mark Glaser: The Media Company I Want to
Work For-- Not Someday, But Now 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Guest writer Glaser is a columnist for OJR: "Time for someone to do it, to make the case for a new way of doing journalism, to stop talking about change in decades and start thinking about change in months and days. To stop complaining about the way things are, and the way things don't work, and to start doing it differently..."

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » President Bush
photographed wearing Air Force award he
never earned

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » President Bush
photographed wearing Air Force award he
never earned 09/02/2004 10:28 AM
Blue Lemur has just posted a story about George W. Bush being photographed wearing an Air Force award he never received .. confirmed

bluelemur.com/index.php?p=276
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The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Reagan defense
sec. confirms legal analysis Bush was
AWOL

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Reagan defense
sec. confirms legal analysis Bush was
AWOL 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
former DoD Secretary: Bush was AWOL and should have been called to active duty .. Reagan defense sec. confirms legal analysisBush was AWOL .. AWOL

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The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Thai newspaper
documents government attempt to kill
tsunami warning

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Thai newspaper
documents government attempt to kill
tsunami warning 12/31/2004 06:44 AM
Thai newspaper documents government attempt to kill tsunami warning 12/30 .. Blue Lemur / RAW STORY Dec. 28

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Energy czar stops classified work using
disks, other removable media

Energy czar stops classified work using
disks, other removable media 07/26/2004 05:31 PM
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham stopped all DOE work using controlled removable electronic media after officials at the Los Alamos National Lab discovered that two computer disks containing classified information were missing.
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