Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2010-02-17
Student's Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Protected Speech It was an opinion of a student about a teacher, that was published off-campus, did not cause any disruption on-campus, and was not lewd, vulgar, threatening, or advocating illegal or dangerous behavior,” Magistrate Barry Garber of Florida ruled Friday. (tags: social technology internet)
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links for 2010-02-16
Brain food: How the MP3 became a combat weapon (tags: media politics social technology) Iceland's fight for press freedom (tags: social technology politics journalism media)
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My Internship with Dallas Observer
I started my internship with Dallas Observer last week. I had to delay due to the Dubai trip. I’m settled in now. I will write for the Dallas Observer music blog DC9 At Night. My first story is up today — Over The Weekend: Fair to Midland’s Wreck Benefit at Curtain Club I’ll link to […]
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links for 2010-02-15
We have let Barack Obama down | Clancy Sigal (tags: economy politics media social)
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links for 2010-02-13
Palestinians dressed as ‘Na’vi’ from ‘Avatar (tags: movies media sci-fi scifi social)
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links for 2010-02-11
Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation (tags: politics social journalism media)
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Dubai trip report
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I spent last week in Dubai. My first overseas trip since 2003. Dubai is essentially a tourist spot (Vegas much?). The buildings are like something out of cyberpunk media during its height in the late eighties and early nineties. Other people think the architecture is too contemporary and will date itself in time, but […]
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links for 2010-02-09
Khalistan: Analyzing the Secessionist Indian State that Only Exists Online – Pixels and Policy (tags: politics social technology desi)
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links for 2010-02-05
Paul Krugman — How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? (tags: politics history economics krugman economy finance recession toread capitalism) Johann Hari: There's Real Hope From Haiti — And It's Not What You'd Expect (tags: journalism social politics)
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RIP Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/p/C984687F7C7449A1&hl=en_US&fs=1 Howard Zinn passed away on Wednesday at age 87. Zinn was a popular activist and author of People’s History of the United States, a frequently updated review of history from the perspective of groups traditionally unrepresented in popular national consciousness. People’s History of the United States sought to give an alternative view of American history against […]
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