http://www.meganboler.net Dissent in the Online Mediums Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:36:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night at DNC, AT&T threw a lavish thank-you party for the dems who let the telecom off the hook for working with the bush administration in helping them spy on people without warants.  Salon's Glen Greenwald tried to infiltrate the party and get some of the names of the ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/26/att-thanks-dems/ According to the Technically Incorrect blog at CNET, Nike, by asking the Chinese gov't to reveal the name of the person who posted to a yahoo msg board and accused to company of having something to do with Liu Xiang's, a famed Chinese hurdler, withdrawal from the event is behaving ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/25/nike-behaving-badly/ The NYTimes magazine has an interesting article about Blendtec's viral marketing campaign: Will It Blend? Some dude in a lab coat takes weird things and tries to blend them, hockey pucks, magnets... Recently, due to the increased popularity of the videos, other companies have being getting their ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/25/consumed/ American Political Science Association has discovered that Democratic politicians that go on the Colbert Report get a spike in donations following their appearance. This effect is called the "Colbert Bump." His analysis finds that Democrats who appear on The Colbert Report enjoy a significant increase in the number and total amount ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/19/the-colbert-bump/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="119" caption="arrrrrrrrr"][/caption] Ok, the title is a little exaggeration - but only a little. Recently the Italian government has blocked access to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay is a site that allows people to download torrent files of popular entertainment and software. They even have comic books. ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/12/fascist-state-blocks-pirates/ I just found out about Textually and I have already added it to my feed reader. The blog aims to follow how new media is being used for entertainment while it erodes an old business model based on an outdated idea of content and intellectual property. WatchingTV Online will be following ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/08/07/textually-watches-the-fall-of-big-media/ Citizens have been using lo-fi digital technology to call into question police accounts and to government practices: Sous-veillance" will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to shine a spotlight on things such as deadly hygiene lapses in hospital wards and uncollected rubbish, according to the European Information ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/31/watching-big-brother/ There is a great article in PC magazine about the death of Usenet.  Started in 1980, usenet was essential in both introducing young boys to porn and creating vibrant online communities.  Usenet has essentially died due to social networking (I mean usenet is so hard to USE right?) and child ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/31/the-death-of-usenet/ Kevin Martin is planning to sanction Comcast for traffic shaping.  Although good, this isn't a victory by any means as Martin, anointed by the great W., blames telecoms needs for traffic shaping on their inability to expand due to over-regulation.  He believes, as any "small" government lovin' Republican should, that ... http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/31/kevin-martin-slaps-comcast-on-the-wrist/ Perspctv is a new way to look at how people are talking about the presidential election in the USA. I don't see how this is useful, but hey, maybe someone out there can use this information in some way. http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/30/a-new-perspctv-on-the-usa-election/