Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Doc Searls Publishes List of "Left Slanted" Blogs Peace meal. Amidst today's war stuff... Michael Sippey on the embedded thing. Mitch Ablom too. On the issue of lefty mojo, Lance Knobel reiterates the need to correct a problem George Lakoff has been lamenting for many years: we need more lefty think tanks. Thanks to Patrick Nielsen Hayden here's a nice tankful of lefty blogs: http://atrios.blogspot.com http://www.thismodernworld.com/ http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ http://www.talkleft.com/ http://calpundit.blogspot.com/ http://www.liberaloasis.com/ http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TotW/Daily_Journal.html http://dailykos.com/ http://www.nathannewman.org/log/ http://tedbarlow.blogspot.com/ http://www.sideshow.idps.co.uk/ http://slacktivist.blogspot.com/ http://www.prospect.org/weblog/ http://bodyandsoul.blogspot.com/ http://offthekuff.com/mt/ http://www.matthewyglesias.com/ http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/ http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/ http://thelookingglass.blogspot.com/ http://counterspin.blogspot.com/ http://skyedreams.blogspot.com/ http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ http://johnquiggin.blogspot.com/ http://maxspeak.org/gm/index.htm http://hnn.us/articles/900.html http://www.thetalkingdog.com/ http://junius.blogspot.com/ http://www.jeffcoop.com/blog/ http://www.felbers.net/blogger.html http://sheldman.blogspot.com/ I'd like to put those in a tagged list, but I don't have the time to hack the html. Maybe later. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 8:37:46 PM    comment []

USA.com Begins Hostile Corporate Takeover of Iraq.gov: Seeks to Decapitate Board of Directors U.S. Plans to Run Iraq Itself. The U.S. is preparing to establish immediate sole control of postwar Iraq, initially without recourse to the U.N. By Elizabeth Becker. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 8:30:21 PM    comment []

Indian Blogging Conference Focuses on New Journalism The Department of Media Sciences, Anna University, Chennai is hosting a national conference on blogging. [Scripting News] 8:27:17 PM    comment []

Saudi Arabian Peace Plan Saudis Make Peace Proposal to U.S., Iraq [AP World News] 8:19:53 PM    comment []

Perils of Vanity Press Could Lead to Better Online Publishing Methods Free book distribution could cost $15,000. Glenn Fleishman and Jeff Carlson released their book, "Real World GoLive 6," as a free download last month. Unfortunately, the book was a hefty 23MB -- lots of screenshots and a bad PDF rip made the file ginormous -- and even more unfortunately, Glenn's ISP, Level 3, has a baroque pricing-plan that bills for more-or-less peak load. So after getting a whole whack of downloads in the space of a few hours, Glenn yanked the book, realizing that he might end up owing $15,000 for the bandwidth consumed by giving away his book. There are a couple of ways the tragedy could have been averted. If the book had been Creative Commons licensed, they could have posted it to the Internet Archive, which woulda given them free hosting. Alternately, they could have put the book into a BitTorrent package or into the Tornado Open Content Network, so that that cost of distribution would have been spread around among all the downloaders. Link Discuss (Thanks, Joe!) [Boing Boing Blog] 8:16:57 PM    comment []

Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)? Halliburton Charges Into Iraq. Cheney's former oil company is awarded a contract to rebuild Iraq. [The Motley Fool] 8:09:47 PM    comment []

Shocked, Scared, Awed, Angry and Confused Airstrikes Stun Iraqis but No Collapse. Nearly a week into the war, the U.S. "shock and awe" air campaign against the pillars of Saddam Hussein's power has yet to achieve its broader aim: an early capitulation by the Iraqi regime that would avert all-out war for control of Baghdad. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 8:07:01 PM    comment []

Network of Hatred Broadcasts Propaganda Iraqi TV Continues Broadcast, Propaganda. Hour by hour, Iraq TV broadcasts the fierce propaganda of Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. "Slit their throats," is the greeting Iraqi citizens should give advancing allied troops, the leaders advise on the air. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:57:09 PM    comment []

Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction? U.S. Finds Nothing at Iraq Chemical Plant. U.S. military investigators have found no evidence that chemical weapons have been made in recent years at a suspect chemical plant secured by U.S. troops in southern Iraq, a senior defense official said Tuesday. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:52:53 PM    comment []

Fascist Islamic Fundamentalism "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman. An important liberal thinker argues that Islamic fundamentalism is the new face of fascism. But his faith in the Bush administration as a force for freedom is naive. [Salon.com] 7:47:23 PM    comment []

Canadians Volunteer for Baghdad Community Service Canadian activists reach Baghdad [The Globe And Mail - National] 7:43:16 PM    comment []

Canadian Lack of Commitment Draws US Criticism U.S. envoy chides Canada [The Globe And Mail - National] 7:41:17 PM    comment []

Axis of Evil Concerned About New US Premptive Self-Defence Attack Policy N. Korea Claims U.S. May Attack After War [AP World News] 7:34:51 PM    comment []

UN Coordinates Largest Humanitarian Relief Effort in History for Iraq Agencies Struggle to Send Food and Water to Iraqis. A number of U.N. agencies are developing plans involving more than $1 billion in food and other aid in what may be the largest humanitarian relief effort in history. By Timothy L. O'brien. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 7:29:12 PM    comment []

Interpreting International Law U.S. Administration and the Geneva Convention. In his Guardian column this week, One rule for them, George Monbiot discusses the U.S. Administration's somewhat schizoid interpretation of the Geneva Convention. Even for someone (like me) who's pretty saturated on Iraq war stuff, it's worth a read. [kuro5hin.org] 7:23:25 PM    comment []

Not Included With Basic Cable How to watch Iraqi Satellite TV on the web: The Saddam Show. Paul Boutin has all the details in Slate, right here. "Viewers be warned: American TV networks make daily decisions on what to show or not to show their viewers. On the Internet, it's easy to route around those decisions. If blogging makes everyone a journalist, then tricks like this one make everyone their own news producer. If you're squeamish, or if you're the relative of an American soldier, you may not want to watch images that the TV networks have deemed unfit for American audiences. But if you want to narrowcast the Iraq Satellite Channel to yourself to see what's being fed to the Iraqi people during this war, you can." Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 7:19:35 PM    comment []

Nonaligned Coalition of the Unwilling Demands UN Security Council Meeting to End War U.N. Council Schedules Meeting on Iraq. The Security Council, responding to Arab and nonaligned nations that demanded an end to the war in Iraq and the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops, scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:17:49 PM    comment []

Is Al-Jazeera Being Treated Like a Real News Agency or Terrorist Propaganda Front? Media Watchdogs Critical of Al-Jazeera Ban. Media watchdogs expressed outrage Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange's decision to revoke Arab TV network Al-Jazeera's credentials and warned that it could boomerang on American journalists. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:14:17 PM    comment []

Humanitarian Relief Efforts on Hold Aid Agencies Seek Approval to Enter Iraq. Fighting across southern Iraq has delayed the distribution of food, water and medicine for the Iraqi people - desperately needed supplies sitting in Kuwaiti warehouses while aid agencies await allied permission to take them across the border. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:10:33 PM    comment []

Turkey Plans Humanitarian Intervention into Iraq Turkey Plans to Move Troops Into N. Iraq. Turkey plans to send its forces up to 12 miles into northern Iraq to deal with any flood of refugees, but will only move if a crisis develops, the Turkish foreign minister said Tuesday. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 1:12:21 PM    comment []

Canada Member of the Coalition of the Unwilling in Shock and Awe U.S. Disappointed by Canadian Refusal. Canada's refusal to join the coalition fighting in Iraq has upset and disappointed the United States and caused a "bump in relations," U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci said Tuesday. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 1:09:40 PM    comment []

United Nations Prepares Response to Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq U.N. Launches Big Appeal for Iraq Food. With food dwindling for millions of Iraqis, a U.N. aid agency will make the biggest single request for cash in its history - more than $1 billion to help feed the war-stricken nation for about six months. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 1:04:59 PM    comment []

Global Ambassador for the Prince of Peace Rejects War as Viable Path for Conflict Resolution Pope Cites Peace Movements in War Message. The vast antiwar movement in the world shows that a "large part of humanity" has rejected the idea of war as a means of resolving conflicts between nations, Pope John Paul II said in a message released Tuesday. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 12:29:24 PM    comment []

Al-Jazeera Denial-of-Service Data Packet Hack Attack: A Response for Showing POW Film? Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack. Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said. The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 12:23:06 PM    comment []

Iraq Death Toll Rises in Operation Iraqi Freedom U.S.: 500 Iraqis Killed in Last Two Days. About 500 Iraqis have been killed in the last two days by 3rd Infantry Division's tanks and mechanized units as they swept through southern Iraq, a top U.S. commander reported Tuesday. The estimate came from Command Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Preston of V Corps, who oversees the 3rd Infantry Division. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com] 7:37:23 AM    comment []