The Athenian

Thursday, April 7, 2005

So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasn't a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something.

Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and 'big media' who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses.
8:14:57 PM

Friday, February 4, 2005

All Bran is very good for you, but sometimes - just sometimes - you want Frosties. This advert (!) from openDemocracy today:

openDemocracy writers bring life to philosophy:
"Iraq, philosophy in war" - articles on Immanuel Kant, Dostoevsky, and Leo Strauss
"Robert Nozick, anarcho-capitalist" (May 2002)
Ramin Jahanbegloo & Richard Rorty, "America[base ']s dreaming" (August 2004)
Candida Clark, "Jacques Derrida, a Cambridge epiphany" (October 2004)

10:15:25 PM

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

John Emerson's Introduction to Activism on the internet. (via DOWire)
8:48:30 PM

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Transcripts of the BBC series the Power of Nightmares.
9:32:05 PM

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Will Davies's Potlach blog points out how much better and more useful Directionlessgov.com is (as just a front end to Google), than the painfully bad search engine at direct.gov.uk.
12:02:23 PM

Monday, December 20, 2004

Another new organisation on participatory issues. RSS feed here.
9:53:28 PM

The OSCE have published a Media Freedom Cookbook.
9:33:44 PM

The people at MeFi are rightly complaining at the o450 ticket on a subscription to the International Journal of Web-Based Communities. I can recommend the Journal of Democracy at $32 a year for individuals.
7:51:40 PM

Crooked Timber looks to squash a spreading error - the idea that electronic markets predicted the US election better than the polls did. The actuality - that the markets were as inaccurate as the polls - indicates to me both the reliance of markets on available information and common wisdom, rather than anything more ethereal; and the primacy of polling data in the US political newsline. Are there alternative means of sampling public views than opinion polling? How reliable is it? Where is the political bias?
7:33:46 PM

An interview on OhMyNews International with Dan Gillmor, who recently quit regular journalism to start a citizen journalism venture. (via Power of Many)
7:19:11 PM

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Will Davies writes about a discussion he ran at the current Internet and Society conference. Top line - pure capitalism and pure democracy can't mix, even if compromise is messy.
8:56:22 PM