Weibo penetration by province.From King-wa and Michael Chau. “Reality Check for the Chinese Microblog Space: A Random Sampling Approach.” PLoS ONE 8(3). 2013. The Chinese government’s ongoing campaign against “online rumors” and the devils who spread them has the blogosphere’s China hands aflutter. A great number of articles and blog posts have explored the topic; […]
“The Freedman”John Quincy Adam Ward. 1863. Displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is a truism long accepted. I do not question the general truth this phrase attempts to convey, but I sometimes find it obscures more than it reveals. Men on opposing lines of […]
A popular 10th grade world history book by Elizabeth Ellis.Image Source. Earlier this week Al West wrote two short posts about world history and world history books that I found interesting. World history books? Mr. West does not like them: “Usually, they’re lacking in archaeological nous, have little or no accurate prehistoric content (a big […]
Renowned tech security specialist Bruce Schneier* has declared it is “time to take the internet back”: “The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back“ Bruce Schneier. The Guardian. 5 September 2013. Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us. By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, […]
Image Source. On year ago President Obama declared “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.” Chemical weapons have been used. Some suggest that America will […]
