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• Out of Africa

  The Ghetto Film Club borrowed film equipment, taught themselves how to use it, and began shooting stories of life in the slums of Nairobi.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 22 2008
  • Contributors: Emily Meehan

• High Water Rising

  Kim Roberts rolled tape as her life was uprooted.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 13 2008
  • Contributors: Matt Barone

• The Ethics of Travel Writing

  A seasoned travel writer makes sense of the Lonely Planet scandal.
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  • 011: Get Lost
  • Date: Aug 01 2008
  • Contributors: Roger Norum

• Ray Bradbury Once Hawked Prunes

  The masterful science fiction writer Ray Bradbury (who would fit nicely in the future-narrative section of the blog) once did a TV commercial for prunes. Check out this bizarre (and either brilliant or heart-wrenching) advertisement.
  
  
  
  Thanks, Atley!
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  • Date: Aug 18 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• Mr. Know-It-All

  Check out W magazine's feature on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Beyond the insightful observation that he "isn’t your usual swoonworthy celebrity sighting... hardly George Clooney or Tom Cruise," [gasp], it provides an informative backdrop to the Web's ubiquitous information headquarters. It's also a great complement to his own Wikipedia profile, in which he is accused by a Wikipedia co-founder as "attempting to rewrite his own history." What a totally fitting scandal for the founder of a user-written encyclopedia.
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  • Date: Aug 13 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Chinese Internet Is Actually InterNOT

  Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee president, told the international press two weeks ago that, "For the first time, foreign media will be able to report freely and publish their work freely in China. There will be no censorship on the Internet." And the international press was like, "OK, cool. Way to not be jerks about the internet, China. High-five." But now, logging on at the Olympics press centers, they're all like, "well, what the eff," because despite promise for this totally-unfettered-by-political-bias internet connection, there's not a single goshdarn googleable thing about controversy in Tibet, Taiwanese independence, the violence that ensued after the protests in Tiananmen Square, there's no Amnesty International, no BBC Chinese-language news, no Radio Free Asia, and several Hong Kong newspapers are also missing. That's a liiiittle fishy. But certainly China wouldn't lie about obstructing incriminating information from journalists. Maybe all those pages are just down right now. You know, press corps, just click refresh.
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  • Date: Jul 31 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Weather?

  Isn't this a climate map, not a weather map?
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  • Date: Jun 04 2008
  • Posted by parhamr

• NBC Olympic Medal Count is WRONG

  I cant believe that on the NBC's website and TV shows they have created their own Olympic medal standings. Even though officially China is spankin! every other country in these summer games, the NBC shows the USA on top of the table because they have the highest number of total medals. The IOC needs to inform this channel that just because you have more bronze and silver medals than any other countries, it does not make you winning the summer games. The truth is that 1 gold medal on the official tally will rank a country higher than a country that has countless silver and bronze medals. I'm sure France is happy with the NBC tally though. They are currently placed at 7th, whereas in reality they are in 13th. At this stage America has to win 18 more gold medals than China to put them officially in first place. And France, well they will need another 7 Golds to bring them up to their NBC position. What a shambles. Stop misleading the public and start winning some more golds
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  • Date: Aug 21 2008
  • Posted by chris_steff

• real journalism

  I understand mortification, but would warn against immediately rebuking GOOD for it's exploration. If, as it has all too often, our media strays away from hard to discuss topics, ones which illicit outcries, then what's the point? No problems can ever be solved without addressing the issues in a manner which surpasses just saying something is Good, or bad ... where's the rest of the story? In this case, it's here ... GOOD put out the topic for discussion and here we are all discussing it. I think that that is at least movement in the right direction.
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  • Date: Aug 11 2008
  • Posted by spulunk