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Designing Obama - Digital Edition
iPad and web versions of the epic @DesigningObama book now online! http://digital.designing-obama.com – Chris Messina™ (chrismessina) http://twitter.com/chrismessina/statuses/22279333883
http://digital.designing-obama.com/
Tags: design, obama, via:packrati.us, branding, campaign, graphics, hanken, masters, mstrm, politics Saved by: admin at 01 Sep 2010

A letter to my students « The Berkeley Blog
Now, your infrastructure is falling to pieces under your feet, and as citizens you are responsible for crudities like closing parks, and inhumanities like closing battered women’s shelters. It’s o... Read more
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/
Tags: education, politics, economics, california, government, berkeley, taxes, history, article, culture Saved by: admin at 26 Aug 2010


"Hallowed Ground" | History Eraser Button
Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New... Read more
http://daryllang.com/blog/4421
Tags: politics, nyc, via:packrati.us, photos, culture, islam, 911, mosque, news, religion Saved by: admin at 17 Aug 2010

Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey (UPDATED) | Epicenter | Wired.com
And that is precisely where Google had, and still has, the power to force openness. Instead, it has decided to play nicely with the wireless carriers in hopes of winning market share and mining advert... Read more
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/why-google-became-a-carrier-humping-net-neutrality-surrender-monkey/all/1
Tags: google, netneutrality, android, mobile, politics, internet, via:packrati.us, wired, advertising, business Saved by: admin at 11 Aug 2010

Adam Green: Google Goes "Evil"
quote:We know why Verizon did it. Verizon is a decrepit old company that made massive investments in old landline technology and is coming face-to-face with market irrelevance. In a properly functioni... Read more
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/breaking-google-goes-evil_b_676021.html
Tags: google, internet, verizon, via:packrati.us, politics, article, articles, editorial, isp, net_neutrality Saved by: admin at 10 Aug 2010

Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
It explicitly allows broadband providers to create prioritized network services simply by classifying them differently, and the checks to prevent this happening are not specified. There also appears t... Read more
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-proposal-for-open-internet.html
Tags: google, netneutrality, verizon, internet, politics, via:packrati.us, wireless, policy, infrastructure, law Saved by: admin at 10 Aug 2010

Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered « OOO
"A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote paddin... Read more
http://blogs.alternet.org/oleoleolson/2010/08/05/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered/
Tags: censorship, digg, internet, politics, conservative, propaganda, articles, socialnetworking, digg,, news Saved by: admin at 06 Aug 2010

FT.com / Reportage - The crisis of middle-class America
The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the “personal recession” that ordinar... Read more
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1a8a5cb2-9ab2-11df-87e6-00144feab49a.html
Tags: economics, america, poverty, society, politics, usa, economy, jobs, trends, inequality Saved by: admin at 02 Aug 2010

Accelerating Future » Amusing Ourselves to Death
From "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman... a book about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/07/amusing-ourselves-to-death/
Tags: huxley, orwell, culture, humor, politics, comics, government, information, 1984, blog Saved by: admin at 29 Jul 2010