I’ll be on the road for roughly the next 24 hours. Postings will resume Monday night or Tuesday.
Posts on ‘January 29th, 2006’
Sanitizing the Past
Two items in current news are raising questions of how to preserve historical truths in a digital age. The Lowell Sun in Massachusetts reports that the staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan “wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of […]
Google's Dual View of World
From Dave Farber’s Interesting People mail list: Here’s what censorship does. Compare Google China: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen Google the rest of the world: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen