Who’s your fb friend? A sock puppet or a CIA op.
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | The Guardian.
Is Petraeus a sock puppet?
March 24th, 2011Culture(s) of copy
March 24th, 2011When to be alarmed, when to reach for a sock puppet
Culture(s) of copy – Report from Edith Russ Haus – Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism.
I am not a prisoner here
March 24th, 2011“I am not a prisoner here,” he murmured to his miserable self. “There is nobody who – there is nothing to keep – oh!” He fell silent. His body fell silent. His inochi was raging. Against something.
“I could walk away from all of this.” He looked down at his feet as if they were about to herald salvation.
He was far away from home, had been for more than half his life. There was now no home to be far away from. Only his fibrous heart-remnant, mimicking warmth and pulsation, could be any kind of hearth for him. And that was a miserable prospect to those who knew him.
Japan earthquake info
March 22nd, 2011Language as a disguise for information
June 12th, 2010My theme for 2010 thinking: does language do more to obscure the information it should be bearing than to convey it?