Press Release
In Brazil the gangs send a press release before invading another favela.
In Brazil the gangs send a press release before invading another favela.
Joi Ito just got his student I.D. card, and now he can access all those wonderful academic databases, like Lexis-Nexis. His thoughts on this are quite relevant to my recent article on “Open Source Anthropology“: It’s a weird feeling. I feel like I’m sitting behind some massive intellectual firewall. I can research all kinds of [...]
I believe in trying to give credit where credit is due. Some bloggers always put a “thanks,””via,””by way of,” etc. credit in their posts, pointing to the blog where they found that particular link in the first place. Sometimes people even thank the blogger who posted the item, and the blogger where they saw the [...]
You may have seen this e-mail which is currently making the rounds. Boingboing.net confirms that it is, in fact, an e-mail from a Wall Street Journal reporter, describing to her friends what it is like to be in Iraq and what she really thinks about the situation there. Here is a sample: One could argue [...]
My latest Anthropology News article, “Open Source Anthropology” is now available online as a fully editable wiki article. Please feel free to contribute! Here is the first paragraph, from a section entitled “Can the Subaltern Google?” Concerns over the ethnical dilemmas involved in producing knowledge about the “other” have, in the past few decades, radically [...]
I recently posted about how the diaries of Samuel Pepys were being released as a blog. Well, today I discovered a bunch of other sites releasing books or diaries as blog entries, one day at a time: Ulysses Da Vinci’s Diaries The Diary of a Nobody Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Finnegans Wake Animal Farm Blog [...]
If the Senate election were held today, the Democrats would take control of the Senate, 52-48 (counting independent Sen. Jeffords as a Democrat, since he caucuses with the Democrats). And this realignment does not take into account the possibility that Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) might pull a Jeffords and jump ship.