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Weekly Round-Up

Here are some links from Twitter and Google+:

Wall Street protestors were subjected to police brutality while Wall Street workers sip champaigne and congratulate themselves on screwing over the people. Ginandtacos discusses the implications of media censorship targeted at these protests.

danah boyd talks about the language and rhetoric of cyberbullying and how to pay attention to kids asking for help.

If you run a WordPress blog, you should read Johnny Dale’s post on how to secure yourself from the timthumb.php vulnerability.

This is what it would look like if you took a visual average of a bunch of different font faces.

Facebook’s new Timeline makes it even easier for people to stalk your every move.

No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz talks about the wider lesson to be learned from the Troy Davis case. Christopher Hitches chimes in about the death penalty. Amnesty International urges you to rise to action.

The Society Pages takes a look at the implicit sexism in the media coverage of the 2012 elections.Freakonomics tells you why it’s pointless to try to predict anything in the future.

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This is what happened on the blog this week:

Commentary

RSS Use and Abuse – more thoughts on technological determinism and the ways in which we rely on the internet for news

Links

Social media as a voting tool – social media used to increase civil engagement in political arenas

Guilt through algorithmic association – danah talks about the dangers of relying on Google’s predictive search terms

What is China thinking? – a visual compendium of the dreams and worries of young people in China

RIP Troy Davis – yet another man failed by the justice system

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This is what happened in the rest of my life this week:

A new batch of art

Photos from the Kensington market in Toronto

Oh, also, I’m helping out at Habitat for Humanity in November. You should sponsor me.

Posted by: Phire on September 26, 2011 |
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