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Golf-day host recruits for sex work
Seeded on Sun May 9, 2010 7:16 PM EDT (IOL)
A young Cape Town dancer and actress joined a Facebook group to boost her career - but was taken aback by the requirements for a job.
Internet Grew 20% More Hateful In 2009
Seeded on Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:49 PM EDT (alan.com)
A report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance shows that terrorists and hate groups are turning to Facebook and Twitter in greater numbers, and that the Internet got 20% nastier last year.
How come Intelligence, religion, and fertility are linked?
Seeded on Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:49 AM EST (epiphenom.fieldofscience.com)
Here's a new study looking at the connection between religion, fertility, and IQ at a national level. We know from previous studies that countries where people are, on average, more religious also tend to have higher average fertility and lower average IQ.
New study looks at unauthorized use of US newspaper stories
Seeded on Thu Dec 3, 2009 1:04 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
A study of the use of US newspaper stories on the Web has found that more than 75,000 websites reused content from newspapers without authorization during a 30-day period.
Virtual Newscast
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 5:16 PM EST (Live Science)
Scientists at Northwestern's Intelligent Information Laboratory are working on a project that creates customized newscasts, read by online avatars based on individual preferences. The program automatically generates a virtual news show. Credit: NSF
Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (Today's Ideas & Actions | OurFuture.org)
All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself powers only d …
'Lipstick on a pig' -- tracking the life and death of news
Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:51 PM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" - the way stories rise and fall in popularity.
Fixing the Economy Is Women's Work
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:50 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is within our grasp -- and has been for years.
Empowering A Progressive Movement-A Web-Based Tool For Bottom-Up Self-Organizing
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:34 PM EDT (openleft.com)
I invited Nancy Brodier to write a diary introducing her concept of a web-based coalition-building tool. She did so, and you can read the result here. I urge everyone to read it, but at around 8,000 words, I think it could use a push.
Iran: Filmmakers claim Mousavi won election
Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:58 PM EDT (adnkronos.com)
Two Iranian filmmakers on Tuesday presented a document to Green Party MPs in the European parliament claiming to show that defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had received over 19 million votes in the weekend election.
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