Voices of the Dead Echo Across Algeria

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Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent:
Echo...echo...alright

Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent:
Echo...echo...alright 10/30/2003 09:22 PM
Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: Echo...echo...alright enough already: "given a complete Echo spec, the launch of a new product could gut a lesser rival's customer base in a matter of hours."...

Drowned voices Digital divide summit
'needs to listen to the voices of the
poor'

Drowned voices Digital divide summit
'needs to listen to the voices of the
poor' 12/09/2003 05:03 AM
BBC Dec 9 2003 4:01AM ET

Algeria says top militant killed

Algeria says top militant killed 06/20/2004 11:33 AM
Algerian troops shot dead the head of the Salafist Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, the army says.

Algeria President Re-Elected in
Landslide

Algeria President Re-Elected in
Landslide 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected in a landslide, an official said today, but his opponent claimed fraud.

Tremor Rocks Algeria, Some Injuries
-Media

Tremor Rocks Algeria, Some Injuries
-Media 01/10/2004 09:06 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 10 2004 6:46PM ET

Major Terrorist in Algeria Is Reportedly
Killed

Major Terrorist in Algeria Is Reportedly
Killed 06/20/2004 04:20 PM
The death of Nabil Sahrawi, the leader of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, follows earlier reports that the group's founder is dead.

CABSAT Footfall Surges As Trade Visitors
From Algeria To Zimbabwe Throng DWTC

CABSAT Footfall Surges As Trade Visitors
From Algeria To Zimbabwe Throng DWTC 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
Event Lives Up To Its Status As Middle East’s Leading Electronic Media Show [PRWEB Mar 12, 2005]

Echo...echo...e c h o...

Echo...echo...e c h o... 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
"100% vendor neutral, implemented by everybody, freely extensible by anybody, and cleanly and thoroughly specified"--how could anyone but be jazzed about the Echo Project, a roadmap toward rebooting RSS-style syndication and the very way we edit weblogs. Proposed by Sam Ruby and signed by a pantheon of blog toolmakers, I can't wait to start planting and incorporating the fruits of the effort into Blosxom.

Onward and upward!

Is There an Echo in Here?

Is There an Echo in Here? 02/12/2004 11:32 PM

A New Technology Lets Colleges Spread Information to People Who Want It (emphasis below is mine)

"College researchers and public-relations officials are starting to take advantage of a new technology that can help get their news and information out more quickly and directly to the people who want them.

The technology, called RSS, is already in use on some news sites and Weblogs. But colleges are beginning to catch up....

While no one tracks how many colleges are using RSS feeds, those that have it include Carleton College, Pacific University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University, and the University of Nevada at Reno. And college officials note that the number of institutions employing the technology is growing.

Jeremy Trumble, Web-services manager at RIT, says that students there are getting the benefits of RSS without even knowing they're using it. Every student has the opportunity to create a Web portal that presents a personalized version of the university's Web site, similar to a My Yahoo page. During the customization, students decide which information they would like to have regularly updated. That tells an RSS reader built into the software which feeds to collect. About half the institution's students have created personalized versions of the Web site through which they get updates on campus news and events.

'Students live on the Web today,' Mr. Trumble says. 'They don't look for a paper. They don't go looking to find information. They want information brought to them.'

Brian Koranda, a Web designer and producer at Carleton, uses the RSS feed to send out notices to the institution's alumni magazine and to provide students with a variety of information, including listings of campus events and movies at the local theater.

'It allows you to see a lot of updated information all at one time,' he says. 'It's only going to get bigger in the future.' " [The Chronicle, via Weblogg-ed News]

The Dot-Com Echo

The Dot-Com Echo 06/29/2004 10:24 AM
The online dealmakers are back in town.

Echo Web Browser 0.1

Echo Web Browser 0.1 05/19/2004 10:06 PM
A simple and fast web browser.

!Echo Wiki

!Echo Wiki 02/10/2004 07:56 PM
Slides from today's presentation [source]

The echo chamber...

The echo chamber... 01/26/2004 01:12 AM

by gapingvoid

Echo is Feedback

Echo is Feedback 02/14/2004 02:47 PM
Joi makes the case that the echo chamber effect in blogspace has a positive attribute and is not communal censorship. Essentially, creative and social networks deliberate to construct fit memes. Related, Kevin Marks and Tantek Çelik developed Vote Links to...

Shark Tank: Is there an echo in here?

Shark Tank: Is there an echo in here? 01/10/2004 01:37 AM
This pilot fish works at a small company that relies heavily on e-mail for communications with managers, district managers and regional managers. And that, it turns out, is a problem.

ECHO Conference Berlin

ECHO Conference Berlin 04/21/2004 02:28 PM
I delivered a talk on Creative Commons's international efforts yesterday at the conference of European Cultural Heritage Online. The conference took place in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. ECHO is an EU-funded collaborative research endeavour that provides support for scientific and cultural institutions in Europe that enrich cultural heritage through new technologies. Some of these partners (such as a state library in Lower Saxony specializing in Leibniz manuscripts dating from the 17th century or an online museum on the Fontana di Trevi) have articulated a strong interest in using the CC licences for making their collections digitally available. Thanks again to the Max Planck Institute for inviting us.

Echo Chamber Illustrated

Echo Chamber Illustrated 12/17/2004 06:26 PM

All I want to say is that the photo illustration is great.

Communities and echo chambers

Communities and echo chambers 02/14/2004 01:24 PM

Shelly asks the question "What part of you, the writer, is part of a community? Where, within yourself, does community leave off and you begin?" and says, "But I guess we're accountable to each other, and that's the most dangerous censorship of all -- it's the censorship of the commons." This is an interesting question that Shelley has pointed out to me and I have been thinking about. In the comments on Shelley's blog, Doc ties it to the notion of the "echo chamber," the effect where we're all just talking to each other oblivious to the outside world. Many people blame the failures of the Dean campaign to this "echo chamber" and point to this "echo chamber" as a problem that is prevalent on blogs. I do see the risks, but I don't think criticizing the existence of communities or friendships is the solution. I think that communities and friendship are the foundations of trust and love and I do not agree that an aggregate of facts and single voices are the solution to finding the "ultimate truth" in writing.

I believe that communities and the feeling of community are an essential part of the equation, but that the goal is to bridge many communities and try to expand one's notion of community the the largest possible size.

For instance, I believe that you can feel your ultimate loyalty to your family, company, city, state, race, religion, nation, type of government or the world. I believe that by putting your loyalty at the highest level allows you to be a global citizen and helps you recognize the importance of whistle-blowers who are often betraying local loyalties for a higher good. I believe that the whole notion of civil rights is a struggle to elevate and increase the emotional size of the community we identify with.

One way to increase the size of the community one identifies with is to participate in multiple communities or to include members from others communities. This is an important part of the "caring problem" that Ethan and I often talk about. I often quote Jack Kemp who once said that, "it doesn't matter what you know if you don't care." One of the problems that mass media faces is that they can report on Iraq, Iran and Africa, but most people don't identify with the people there and they don't care. Salam Pax showed that a single blogger with a voice can increase the caring. Salam Pax is part of our community and we are proud of him and we care about him. Through his eyes, we see Iraq as part of our world and because of him, other Iraqi bloggers have joined our community.

I think the key is to understand that it's not just like a high school. In high school, there is group of friends and everyone spends all of their time concerned about being in that group or not in that group. My life is a jumble of relationships and memberships in a great variety of sometimes conflicting communities of all different sizes and doesn't feel like high school to me. As Ross has pointed out, these can be roughly groups into three sizes. Big power-law shaped groupings, which are political, medium sized groupings which are social, and smaller groups which are strong-tie/family/close-friend groups. My sister used the word, "Full-Time Intimate Community".

The behavior at each of these levels is quite different and it is when we collapse the context that we get in trouble. Comments made between intimate friends are different from the comments that are suitable for a discussion at a cocktail party. Comments made at a cocktail party are often not suitable for a public speech. One of the problems we have on blogs is that all three of these contexts are often collapsed into one blog.

On the notion of "censorship of the commons," I guess I'd disagree with Shelley. I think censorship by a minority of people with influence over the majority is much more dangerous than "censorship of the commons." If the commons represents a general consensus of the views of the community you choose to participate in, they should have some influence over you. I think censorship is really bad when it is exercised from a position of authority, especially one that has the ability to assert such authority through force. I am personally pulled in many directions from all of the communities I participate in and these tensions are interesting and useful. I see them less as censorship and more as points of view that help me triangulate. My traditional Japanese community, my crypto/security community, my feminist friends, my liberal political community and my latte-drinking, orkut-loving, IRC-addicted community all have opinions about what I write. I think about what their opinions will be when I write and I find that this helps me look at any issue from a variety of perspectives. They are each echo chambers in their own way, but I try to escape this echo chamber not by denying their existence or their influence over me, but by recognizing them and using a combination of communities to help me and my readers triangulate.

Does the Net promote echo-chambers?

Does the Net promote echo-chambers? 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
Steven Johnson questions the conventional wisdom that the Net fragments us into like-minded micro-communities.  (FYI, the seminal elaboration of this viewpoint is Andrew Shapiro's The Control Revolution.) 

I generally agree with Johnson's view.  The Net gives us many tools to filter information and to spend our time in closed communities.  But at the same time, it exposes us to far more diversity than any previous medium.  Those filters are never perfect.  And there is a countervailing pressure toward aggregation, which works against the fragmenting effects of filters.  Google and Yahoo aren't echo chambers, because their value comes from their breadth and scale. 

Furthermore, even when online communities and information sources are narrowly tailored to a specific viewpoint, that doesn't mean the people participating in them are hermetically walled off from one another.  Communities overlap.  If I'm a dog owner, a libertarian, and a fan of Sex and the City (for the record, I'm none of the above), chances are the people and content I interact with will differ from me along at least one of those dimensions.  Some people may vote based on a single issue, but no one is ultimately defined by a single interest.  The more specialized the commuity, the more likely its members will differ on other matters.  Spill-over is inevitable.

The final point is that the Net is still largely an open platform.  There is always room for another community or information source.  Traditional media has never been open in the same way.  With consolidation and the rise of politically polarized news, it is becoming even less so.  At a dinner the other night, I talked with Mark Walsh, a former exec at VerticalNet and AOL, and technology advisor to the Democratic Party.  He is launching a liberal talk radio network called Progress Media in eight cities in March.  Perhaps, on radio at least, there is still some room to challenge the dominant opinion current.

foreach $i in $swearwords; do echo $i;
done

foreach $i in $swearwords; do echo $i;
done 03/25/2005 04:54 PM
I wrote a lengthy entry about India and how some things are more uncomfortable than others, but this stinking camel turd of a computer that I wouldn't give to a donkey to masturbate on, decided to fall asleep on its own, crash, and take my entire composition to bit heaven. Yeah, it's running Windows. No, I don't maintain it myself. Yes, it's corporate stuff. No, I didn't bring my Mac.

*sigh*

What I was about to say, was that the strangest things about India are not the beggars, nor the poverty, nor the cows standing in the middle of expressways, nor the camel turds, nor rickshaw-racing (which is cool but scary), nor the touts, nor the constant bargaining, but the simple questions like "When you would like to have tea in the bed tomorrow?"

I am not used to being served. I find it really strange, if someone else carries my bag; I find it difficult not to help clean the table after a meal, and I find it almost offensive when someone exists for the purpose of pushing the elevator button for me. (Then again, living in Finland, I'm used to waiters being smug, if not downright insulting.)

We managed to spend a night at a British villa outside Delhi (Flash & giggling Finns warning). You know the drill: come in, someone brings you soda and lime, you kick off your shoes, go for a swim, a stroll in the countryside, someone brings you five o'clock tea, you chat nonchalantly over deep issues over a gin&tonic, then the supper is served, you retire and someone asks you the question: "Would you like to have tea in the bed in the morning, sir?"

You know. Everyday stuff.

The really, really scary thing is that how easy it is to get used to this colonial era high-class/low-class attitude. I feel... Ashamed? Guilty? Dirty? It's as if I was enjoying a forbidden fruit; that I was not allowed to be in this superior position. People were giving me attention that was completely unwarranted, not on the account of who I was, but what I was perceived to be representing.

But it felt damned good. Very, very easy to slip into. Probably very, very hard to get out of.

Like a mousetrap.

Holi festival tomorrow. Will be interesting.

Script Echo Color

Script Echo Color 08/10/2004 11:17 PM
version 1.0 beta released!

ETCON: !Echo Wiki

ETCON: !Echo Wiki 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

At the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Ken Macleod (a.k.a. bitsko) and myself will be presenting our thoughts on the usage of the Wiki and alternative technologies in the development of Pie Echo Atom.

This should be a highly interactive session, with lots of audience participation.

echo $TITLE|grep Linux.Ars

echo $TITLE|grep Linux.Ars 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
SUSE LINUX 9 is out, and Linux.Ars has one of their surprisingly thorough capsule reviews.

Barlow steps out of the echo chamber

Barlow steps out of the echo chamber 01/08/2004 08:06 PM

For those of you who continue to argue that most blogs and links between blogs are an echo chamber, go to Barlow's blog and take a look. Barlow has stepped out of his Barlowfriendz mailing list into a community which includes the Barlowenemiez. Barlow eloquently discusses the experience of stepping out of the echo chamber.

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.1
(Stable)

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.1
(Stable) 08/12/2004 11:43 PM
An object-oriented, event-driven Web application framework.

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.0
(Stable)

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.0
(Stable) 07/27/2004 11:27 AM
An object-oriented, event-driven Web application framework.

Echo 3D RPG Game Engine / Suite

Echo 3D RPG Game Engine / Suite 12/23/2003 12:27 AM
DirectX SDK issues

How the use of a Wiki is influencing the
Echo process

How the use of a Wiki is influencing the
Echo process 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Some of you might have noticed that theres a project going on to replace todays RSS formats with a format everyone can agree upon. Yesterday...

Echo-canceling microphone introduced

Echo-canceling microphone introduced 05/25/2004 11:34 AM
ClearOne Communications has introduced AccuMic PC, an echo-canceling microphone for use with a personal computer in desktop videoconferencing and Webconferencing applications...

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.2
(Stable)

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1.2
(Stable) 08/30/2004 08:41 AM
An object-oriented, event-driven Web application framework.

Many voices over IP

Many voices over IP 05/17/2004 10:22 AM
USA Today May 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

Loud Blasts Echo Across Central Baghdad

Loud Blasts Echo Across Central Baghdad 05/22/2004 09:58 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 22 2004 1:46PM GMT

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1RC2
(Development)

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1RC2
(Development) 07/08/2004 10:32 AM
An object-oriented, event-driven Web application framework.

AccuMic PC debuts; echo-canceling mic
for Macs, PCs

AccuMic PC debuts; echo-canceling mic
for Macs, PCs 05/25/2004 08:31 AM
ClearOne Communications Inc. on Tuesday introduced AccuMic PC, an echo-canceling microphone designed to work with Macs and PCs being used for video conferencing and Webconferencing applications. AccuMic PC features three elements to provide 360-degree pickup. It sports a 3.5mm connector. AccuMic PC costs US$649. ClearOne's Web site had not been updated with information about the new product as MacCentral posted this article.

In Ohio, Building a Political Echo
(washingtonpost.com)

In Ohio, Building a Political Echo
(washingtonpost.com) 05/11/2004 10:28 PM
washingtonpost.com - CINCINNATI -- Christa Criddle is not the sort of person who springs to mind when political operatives talk about "opinion leaders." She does not have a column, or talk show, or Web site. But if someone wants to influence opinion in her patch of Ohio suburbia, this 35-year-old mother of three is a good place to start.

Blasts Echo Across Central Baghdad
(Reuters)

Blasts Echo Across Central Baghdad
(Reuters) 07/26/2004 10:52 PM
Reuters - Several loud blasts echoed across central Baghdad early Tuesday, but it was not immediately clear what caused the explosions.

Spotted in Echo Park, California
[Flickr]

Spotted in Echo Park, California
[Flickr] 03/23/2005 10:20 AM

Thus ADSL - the price cuts with a funny
echo

Thus ADSL - the price cuts with a funny
echo 05/18/2004 03:01 PM
Making broadband affordable. Later.

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1RC1
(Development)

Echo Web Application Framework 1.1RC1
(Development) 07/01/2004 08:54 AM
An object-oriented, event-driven Web application framework.
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