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robert paterson has a review of the corporation. the corporation equals corps with physcotic animals, dancing to the whims of bad craziness. the documentary has stirred much thought. reading it now. In his words: The extreme right 'love it or leave it' crowd are no doubt already starting to yell "Lefty propaganda," but this isn't an Anti-Bush attack on all things capitalist. This isn't hippy rhetoric or new age spin or a call to the communes. It isn't hoity toity technospeak or boring talking-head PBS filler. What The Corporation is, is a healthy dose of well-researched, deeply explored, stunning information that can not possibly leave you, as an audience member, in any condition but stunned, dismayed, and outraged...... Set aside three hours of your life and watch The Corporation. Hunt it down, find it, any way you can. I just watched 750 people sit down as capitalists and stand up yelling for change. I witnessed people throwing brand name products into garbage cans afterwards in disgust. I witnessed hundreds signing on to email lists for more information about how they can help change the world. I saw an audience moved to exact change on the world around them, to take back what was once theirs and maybe one day can be again...... Normal documentaries don't have that kind of an effect on an audience. Normal documentaries don't give you enough to get truly fucked off at what is being done to us. The Corporation, to be sure, is far from a 'normal' documentary. This is the kind fo filmmaking that could, if seen on a large scale, change the society we live in. [robert paterson's weblog] damn. for even the very act of watching the movie makes more money for the corporation. One to seriously watch, the upstanding, fon Corporation. 8:04:07 PM  Say it loud [] Trackback []
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Semantic Web, FOAF and other stories Edd dumbill: FOAF's point is as the personal homepage technology of the semantic web. Like we all made homepages back in 1995. In fact the links of significance in FOAF are the rdfs:seeAlso, not the foaf:knows bits: the dumb seeAlso is the parallel to the dumb a href="". (Except it turns out we can hang more information on a seeAlso.) so, i wonder, why not extend FOAF? dumbill asks, and criticises a Jon Udell article on FOAF, which also asks for extending FOAF (or so i gathered) but then somehow it advocates the good old proven ways of hyperlink as the only technology with proven track record (or so ithought) and then comes to an end by saying "extend this to all of our content production". i'm a hard time getting udell's point, although the problem is probably on my side. whatever. when i see though projects like Mudlondon, i drift to a more uninterrupted and calm mode, seeing the pontential of project interop and synergy between foaf, jabber, open-collaborative mapping, and .....an entire new sea of possibilities emerges. Mudlondon: Gonzo collaborative mapping.
Mudlondon uses RDF, a jabber chat interface that enables participants to interact via chatbot at mudlondon@jabber.earth.li, an IM interface via AIM at mudlondon, scrapes info from open-source London directory grubstreet, Streetmap.pm, and Tubeplanner -- turning London into a realtime, open source, MUD. What it is ----> is up to its users. (Via Locative Media) via [Smart Mobs] 7:53:42 PM Say it loud [] Trackback []
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