Entries from December 2007

December 30, 2007

Two Assassinations, Three News Events and two Questions

 A  Chronicle of Violence.
1-Two years after the assassination of Rafic Hariri:(Februar 2005)

‘Paris interrompt ses contacts avec Damas’, (le Figaro, FranceIParis interrupts his contacts with Damascus (translated with Google Translation)…”Nicolas Sarkozy believes that Syria must show that it is willing to let the Lebanon elect a president of consensus. ‘France will no longer have any contacts [...]

December 25, 2007

Farsi, Arabic and Hebrew

“ Israel kills 2 militants in Gaza - Hamas( 12.24.07)
(I quote)…’Air strike on car traveling near al-Bureij refugee camp kills two Islamist group members, wounds two more’…’Israel has killed more than 20 militants in the past two weeks in increased military action in the coastal territory.” …, see here.
  This is the daily (sad) chronicle of belligerence along [...]

December 17, 2007

“Do the Right Thing” do Citizen Journalism

   A mini introduction to “How to Create ’Debates’ ” is found (without offending..) in the opinions differences between two NP contributors on  the theme ’Is Global Warming’ man-made or a hoax’, (12/16/2007)…(see here) 

  Photos source.                                    ’Global Warming’
   Similar difference in opinions rages on the ’citizen journalism’ versus conventional journalism debate, on a terrain  more slyppery than ever. From David Hazinsky’s article ”Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky” , (12/13/07, [...]

December 13, 2007

The Blogger President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I was happy to find out that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Blogger just like me, look at his blog: 

Wandering around his blog , interested to know what are his views as a blogger, on Israel, I found nothing  more than his well known official statements. So  I wrote in the search box ‘Israel’ under ‘comments’ and get the [...]

December 10, 2007

Dolls, Sculptures, Japan, Robots

Photos sources.    Here, I Robot here (Eva Beytra) here, (Ryan Trecartin) here,Tokyo Time here.

December 5, 2007

Is Citizen Journalism a Gigantic Blog?

 The new  journalism wave of citizen, crowds, bloggers etc, disturbs the conventional institutional journalism to a point that most well know newspapers introduce in their daily menu ‘bloggers’ acting with a more personal touch, perhaps not so journalistic. 
 Here are a few exemples of such sites,

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